[ATTENDED: November 20, 2021] Patrick McMinn [rescheduled from April 30, 2020]
I was really excited to finally get to see Dan Deacon that I didn’t really think about opening acts.
Traffic was a little worse than I expected and I wound up walking in during Patrick McMinn’s set.
The original opening act was scheduled to be Ed Schrader’s Music Beat. I’m not sure why he wasn’t on the list anymore.
What amused me most about the stage was that it was set up with three table with laptops and such on them. On the far right table (facing the stage) McMinn was standing bathed in blue lights.
I had never been to an electronica show before, so I didn’t really know if it was going to be literally all knob twiddling. And it was, more or less.
But McMinn also plays trumpet and for the final two songs he played nice trumpet melodies into his processor and then proceeded to alter and mix them to fit into the beats he was creating.
While it is certainly interesting to watch someone create music on the fly like that, the addition of a nice visual like the trumpet certainly adds a fun element.
The set didn’t blow me away or anything, but it was enjoyable introduction to the evening.
I was lucky enough to see We Were Promised Jetpacks in February. They announced a surprise show in June–a kind of last show before we leave the States thing. Of course it was cancelled.
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