Seattle Weekly Music Awards Showcase

I had such a fantastic time tonight, I feel like I’ve already won!! I’m convinced that the voting will honor the Sun Tzu crew or maybe Kid Hops (nothin’ like passing the torch!! but my prize was playing in the funnest venue with all the gear I needed and a great soundman (thanks Andrew) and a chill crowd and these super bands:

Suicide Jack
NA
Bill Horist
Picoso
Ficus Trio
Swampdweller
Wayne Horvitz & Sweeter than the Day

Suicide Jack is a killer blues band with saucyness and drunkenness reminiscent of Tom Waits, which happens to employ a couple of friends of mine (Micah and Bryan - but I didn’t know until tonight). Na was insane, of course. I’m sure they scared plenty of new fans. Bill Horist sounded amazing tonight, just gorgeous walls of sound, I’ve heard him before but I think tonight was my favorite. I don’t want that to get lost in my spiel of post-show joy - fantastic. Picoso and Swampdweller? Straight up party bands, crowd pleasers, we were over capacity for both and had to stop letting people in. Too fun!! Awesome bands. I’d heard Picoso before, because my friends Sam and Izaak from Monktail are in it, but they were super on tonight. I LOVED their last song, a latiny swing tune. And Swampdweller - (hey, Ambrose, another instrumentalist friend! Is this town getting smaller?) Nice tight horns, fun uptempo enjoyable music. And then Wayne and the boys just killed it. Slayed them all. RAD. Even Josh stayed up two hours past his bedtime because he couldn’t tear himself away. Yay!!

Maybe tomorrow I’ll post everything I played tonight. How to make Tamara happy? Two turntables AND two Pioneer CDJ 1000s. (Cathedral Band already knows this of course…) I probably didn’t even crack an hour an a half of play time (I just played between bands) even though I was there for 8 hours, but it was awesome nonetheless. The bands were all over the place so my selections could be too. Fun fun fun. Thanks Seattle Weekly!!