I Just Read About That…

[DID NOT ATTEND: February 29, 2024] Mary Timony /Birthday Girl DC

Mary Timony is one of indie rock’s great guitar players.  I really enjoyed her band Helium, although I haven’t really listened to them in quite some time.

I have seen her play solo (with a band) twice and I recall not really enjoying her set all that much.   She (as you can judge by the photo below) indulges in fantasy and I thought that would make me like her solo records even more.

But honestly, nothing she’s done since Helium has intrigued me all that much,

So I wasn’t planning on going to this show anyway.

Birthday Girl DC I guess was formerly just Birthday Girl.

They opened for Be Your Own Pet back in October

About that show I wrote

I had not heard of Birthday Girl which is surprising only because of the band’s lineage.  A Pessimist is Never Disappointed notes:

I think some folks are, rightly, going to check out Birthday Girl because Mabel Canty’s father is Brendan Canty (Rites of Spring, Fugazi, The Messthetics, etc.), or because Isabella MacKaye’s dad is Alec MacKaye (The Faith, Ignition, The Warmers, Hammered Hulls, etc.). But people are going to stay with this band because the music those two make with drummer Tess Kontarinis is sharply realized and emotive. What’s here on the band’s self-titled debut isn’t so much the sound of a new generation of harDCore, as it is that of the heyday of college rock. Less Beefeater and more Bettie Serveert is what I’m saying.

Sounds great.

If I wasn’t going out on Friday night I might be tempted to go to this