My new favourite band

Whenever I go see a band, I always know what I'm in for: I'm there because there's a band I want to see, I know their songs and I know when in the set is a good time to pop out for a toilet break. It works and it doesn't work; I get to avoid seeing crap bands and I miss out on seeing great bands I weren't aware of. That's just how the cookie crumbles I guess.

Though on the other night whilst I went to check out johndickheadhunter3, I caught the opening band, Civic, and my luck of catching unknown bands that turned out to suck, changed for the better.



Bokku no nikki



Monster



They ticked off a lot of boxes on "John's Superficial List of Things to Check out in Bands and Muso's":

* Good choice in guitars; in this case, Epiphones. Bonus point for black bodies with white plate.
* Their channelling of shoegaze, ala Jesus and the Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine.
* The "cool as fuck" drummer and the bassist with backing vocals that provide an etheral presence to the songs.
* The aforementioned drummer and bassist being cute. +1,029,628 points.

I picked up a demo CD of theirs and I haven't been able to stop listening to it, let alone listening to it in its entirety! I think the last time this happened was sometime last century. They seem to play pretty often albeit 'round Tokyo. Which is a good thing since I can easily turn into a groupie for them.



Just not a groupie for the 2 male guitarists.

Music In My Head: Civic - Lemon