[DID NOT ATTEND: April 21, 2023] Chris Forsyth / Purling Hiss / Garcia Peoples
I had planned to attend fewer shows this year. It turns out there haven’t been that many days that were overbooked with shows. This was the first one that was totally overbooked.
I had tickets to M83 and also to Acid Dad and it was a hard decision which one to go to.
So this show didn’t really stand a chance.
I love Chris Forsyth, and would love to see him again. However, I have seen him fairly recently and at Johnny Brenda’s. The show would be reliably great, but as I said, already booked.
I saw Purling Hiss back in 2017 about which I said
I knew that the bulk of the band’s catalog was basically Mike Polizze making music for himself. It was pretty noisy and abstract with lots of jam moments. They are now a band–I’m not sure who the other two guys in the band were (based on the latest album, I’m assuming Ben Hart on drums and Dan Provenzano on bass)–and they have gotten more musical since then. But thy are still noisy. So I expected a lot of squalling feedback and pummeling sounds. I was quite pleased with how melodic the band’s songs were (no idea what songs they played, but I assume most of it came from their newest album).
I’d definitely see them again.
Garcia Peoples are joining this tour in Brooklyn. If they had been in Philly, this would have been a much more difficult choice.
UPDATE: Turns out they DID play as well.
And here’s video proof from the always reliable Markit aneight
Here’s video of Purling Hiss
And here’s Chris Forsyth
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