[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
I Just Read About That... 