This Week in Music, V3.0
LUXX
A week ago, I knew exactly what I was going to write about this week… and then I looked at the calendar and my planned changed completely as there was one single show that I had to write about. Then, I got an email that threw a wrench in that idea, and finally made the mistake of looking at the calendar a little closer and I realized my plans A, B, and C were not going to work at all. Now I don’t know what to tell you because, as usual, there is too much to talk about.
I know, I know… “good problems”.
It all started with great intentions last week when I planned a feature on Paris Mountain State Park’s Music in the Woods concert series. It is a wonderful, nine-week outdoor concert series featuring everyone from songwriters like Vilai Harrington and Darby Wilcox to the Greenville Symphony Ensemble performing at the park’s outdoor amphitheater. Admission is only the cost of the entry to the park and the whole experience is something that we should all enjoy, if not every week, at least a healthy handful of them.
A full feature on this was my original plan last week but a work meeting last Thursday ran long (at the Community Tap of all places) and a lazy evening at home with my wife and the new episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law became the new priority, thus derailing my music-writing-window, if you will. I am human, after all.
Rock Out Hunger at The Radio Room; Saturday 9.10
So, this week I was going to correct this misstep with a Music in the Woods feature, but, alas, another show came to my attention. Saturday night, The Radio Room plays host to Rock Out Hunger, a benefit for Loaves and Fishes, which just so happens to be one of my favorite local charities. Loaves and Fishes specializes in rescuing food from restaurants and grocery stores that might otherwise expire or go to waste and bee lines it to those that need it most. I was first introduced to Loaves and Fishes in my former life as a construction worker when one of their trucks arrived at a jobsite where I was performing some maintenance. To see the residents of a low-income senior living building light up at the truck’s arrival, go as far as to help unload said truck, diplomatically divvy and up share their bounty, and even invite me to share in the wealth was an experience that I relive every time I see a Loaves and Fishes truck on the road. I have to admit, it warms my heart every single time it happens.
Brother Oliver
Throw in the fact that the Rock Out Hunger event features Forthright Records’ own Brother Oliver as well as local favorites Her Pilots (and more) and this became THE show of the week that I wanted to talk about, right up until…
Mike Sharpe from local metal band Hyperchina shot me an email tipping me off to the fact that they would be joined by LUXX, DaisyHOUS, and Bleeding Trees at The Artistry Workshops & Gallery Saturday night. If you have read my work at all over the last few years, you know darn well that LUXX is a band I am going to mention every single time they play, right up until they are famous or I am dead. That does not even begin to address the fact that The Artistry is one of the coolest art gallery/blacksmith shops/music venues that you will ever lay eyes upon. Four local bands at one of the most unique venues in town? My plans for this week’s ramblings were suddenly immensely complicated to say the least.
Young Mister
