Jan
02
2009

The Seizures @ The Ding Dong Lounge

PhotosFriday, January 2, 2009 - 11:30:59 pm
(Posted Under: Music Music)
Photobox ImageTonight was The Seizures show @ The Ding Dong Lounge in China Town. Right off the bat I have to say it's a pretty cool venue, which was nice given how early we were there. We'd headed out to the city to look at digital photo frames (which is a blog in itself), gone down to St. Kilda beach to kill time, and arrived at the bar a little after 8 only to discover the band went on at 11 and were only playing for an hour.

Now, the band - y'know, The Seizures. No? Okay, so it was a secret show for a band recording their new album Seizures. A.K.A Kisschasy. One of the advantages of having a wife who is all over this stuff is finding about sed 'secret' shows. Pretty sweet deal, the tickets were $16, which even given the annoying Mostix fees was still a cheap show.

The opening band The Scissor File were actually fairly good. Probably a bit green and need some more experience, but had really good guitar hooks IMO. The second band, The Inheritors didn't do a lot for me however.

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The particularly nice thing about this show in addition to the intimate setting, was the lack of prepubescent screaming girls that we were plagued by at the The Palace last year. Since the show wasn't that secret, I thought we'd have to deal with that again. However, we didn't, and were able to stand at the front without being pushed by 15 year old girls bags and didn't have to listen to a sea of girls singing over the band on the hits. The sound wasn't as hard hitting as the show last year, but bring on the intimate venue setting!

All in all it was a good set, mostly songs from Hymns, with the band road testing a couple of their new songs. Kinda hard to make an opinion on them on just on listen, but they did seem a bit more alternative and aggressive than their current stuff. A good thing? A bad thing? I don't know, we'll see when the album comes out.

The setlist went something like this:

  1. A Perfect Way To Meet
  2. Strings And Drums
  3. Opinions Won't Keep You Warm At Night
  4. Tarantula (New)
  5. Face Without A Name
  6. Generation Why (New)
  7. Weekend (New)
  8. This Bed
  9. Reminder
  10. Dissolution
  11. Do Dos & Whoa Oh's
  12. Spray On Pants
  13. My Bible Is A Scrap Book
We were both hoping for a bit more off of Too B Or Not Too B, but the only song they played was Reminder. I'd also wondered if we might get a cover of Hey Jealousy during the set, or encore (which there was none), given the nature of the show, but no such luck. Though, all in all it was a good setlist, and really good to see the band in such a bar setting.

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