Star Guitar Festival
Two days. Saturday and Sunday, though I just went there on Saturday. Humm.. what can I say? I just went there cause I wasn´t paying. Really. I knew all the bands already. I think this was the bad thing... they put 7 bands together and these 7 bands are playing every weekend in the bars and clubs around São Paulo. Just like a friend said to me “well, it´s an overdose of our friend´s bands” hehehe.
Otherwise, they were trying their best (the bands). So the festival started with Evil Sounds Drinks, one of the few eletronic bands from here which tries to play live in shows. At least I´ve never heard any other doing this before. Of course we have some eletronic bands here, but it´s not that easy to go to a “rock place” and see them playing. Anyway, it was this cover of Atari Teenage Riot the most part. Even the little girl screaming, well, there she was. I got at the festival when the band was playing the third last song (which was not that good, since each song had more than 5 minutes each hehe). So I just took a sit upstairs with a few friends and there I spent all the journey. Bionica played and ohhh no, they just sucked at all! Really! Girls pretending they were bad, I hate this kinda behaviour. So, thankfully we had Transistors playing their songs in english, portuguese and even french. Girls singing, a boy singing, a reeeeeeeally nice guitar-player (Mariana really rocks!) and this excellent drummer! Well, it´s obvious they have lots and lots of 60´s , mod´s influences and the boy-singer has lots of Jarvis Cocker´s influences in his performance. But what really matters is that they make you shake your body, baby! A good band that I hope to see more times! After all the dance, we had The Concept celebrating their 9 years together!!!!!! Wow! I know the guys and of course, I just spent the show thinking how they developed all these years. Influences of Teenage Fanclub and My Bloody Valentine... a lot of noise. The most special “touch”? the vocals! Yeah, the singer´s vocal is soooooo sweet! It makes the band gets less noisy without becoming pop! :) We had this little pause again until Pullovers gets the stage.Hum, what can I say? They really used to be good. Nowdays, they´re just like the other bands that one day were power-pop bands and now they try to be punkers. Wthout success, of course. I guess that pop and sweet melodies are always in someone´s heart. The band is in their second album already. I didn´t hear that yet and probably I won´t. I prefer to keep this picture of them playing the old sweet songs. Ok, just to you stop thinking I´m such a bad girl, well, here we go to the best shot: Hurtmold was just the sensation of the whole festival. I spent all this time hearing “oh, they´re such a smart band, sooo tallented and good musicians”, but I don´t know why, I always kept this feeling about them, telling me they were one more punk-experimental band. I was completely wrong. They´re experimental, yeah. But they´re not a punk band or any other thing. I guess that If Mogwai was brazilian, well, they would be playing in Hurtmold. Though, I have to tell the truth: hurtmold´s gig really beats a mogwai´s gig. They ´re sooo concentrated on the stage, they have control on their feelings and the instruments. Perfect. Guys, just try to search for this band in the internet. Be nice to your ears. You won´t be regret. Ohhhh yeah, in a normal context this would be the last band... but it wasn´t. After this gorgeous show of Hurtmold, we had Pelvs playing. A band from Rio de Janeiro (I guess the only one which wasn´t from São Paulo anyway). Hum. It was the first show of them that I could see. I mean, I had seen them before playing with Luna last year, but even the guys of the band said the show was awfull. This time, with the good equipament and everything, they really played those beautiful songs. They only played hits.ohhh it was the perfect show for lovers. You know, they started the first riff and the drums and they you got yourself thinking “ohhhh Someone´s missing by my side”. Pelvs has songs that make you come back home thinking bout your past, or even making you come back home singing their melodies until you get really home, to take the phone and call to someone you miss. Yeah, this was pelvs with their lots of dinosaur jr´s influences, but with something really special I could never tell you what. What are you waiting for to search for these bands???
I don´t have links yet, but soon I´ll be posting some links to these bands and others, right? Go to bed, kids. You´re lo-fi but you´re not that powerfull hehe. See ya! Soundtrack: Bettie Serveert – “lamprey”
