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[DID NOT ATTEND: September 25, 2023] Osees / Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band

Last year, I did not go to the Osees show.   And I wrote this:

I saw Osees exactly one year ago today.  I summarized by saying

The show was intense, exhausting and a ton of fun. I am so glad I went.

When they announced this year’s show I wasn’t quite in the mood for seeing them again (the exhausting part being the most vivid memory of the show).  But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t see them again maybe next year.

When Osees announced their new show (exactly one year and a day after last year’s show), I bought a ticket for it in February, figuring what I said last year was true.

September was turning out to be a busy concert month, when I was trying to calm down my concert going.  And I figured there was always a chance I wasn’t going to go to this show.

But since I had blown off the weekend show, I figured I’d go to this one.  Especially since I really like the new Osees album.

But this time the world got to me instead.  I had made an appointment for a COVID booster.  But I accidentally went to two of the wrong locations (first one my fault, second one a misunderstanding).  What should have taken five minutes wound up taken 90, and by the time I actually got the booster, it was later than when I wanted to leave for this show.  And I hadn’t even been home yet.

There’s no way I would have made much if any of Nolan Potter and by then, I was just too worn out from driving around to bother going anywhere (we’ll blame a little vaccine exhaustion too).

But since Osees love to play Philly, I’m promising myself that I’ll see them next year.

I had not heard of Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band before this show and I imagined them being loud and crazy and abrasive.  But when I listened to their latest album Let It Stream, I was amazed by how much I liked it!  It was like Frank Zappa with jazzy and proggy moments.

Another reviewer says of them

Awesome newish prog-psych band with an awesome vibe and a TON of flute. Lotta King Gizzard vibes from them, and if you’re a fan of Matt Berry too you might really like them.

So, yeah, I might be more bummed that I missed them than the Osees.  Will definitely have to catch them in the future.

But Markit Aneight recorded the show for everyone:

Here’s Nolan Potter

Here’s Osees