A SHOW AND A WIN

Todd Spoth — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:23:21 +0000

My second proper Houston live music show of 2009 crept up on me quick. I had no idea there was a show I had planned on attending tonight, but thankfully the Rockets were playing in LA, which meant the game didn’t start until 9:30pm CST. That gave Chris and I enough time to go to the show and get home with enough time to watch the entire (incredible) game. As for the show, it was pretty fair. I was expecting to see a nice full set out of Ace Enders with a full backing band as well as seeing Vedera for the first time. We got to Verizon with enough time to catch the majority of the opening band, The Upwelling, who was actually really good. They sounded like an early version of Koufax. Definitely looking forward to their debut LP coming in July. Ace with his backing band played next and although the full band is infinitely better than his acoustic performance, they only played 5 songs, none of which were Early November songs. I understand breaking away from playing TEN songs, especially opening on a larger tour like this, but only 5 songs? We stuck around long enough for me to photograph my 3 songs of Shiny Toy Guns and I’m glad I did. They aren’t as terrible live as I remembered, but what really made it worth it was their intense stage lighting. Verizon Wireless Theater is always pretty decent as far as live music lighting goes, but there was custom lighting brought in for the tour which made things a little more interesting.

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A SHOW AND A WIN