Fun weekend. Even went outside for a while.

Saturday was the All Astronauts/Japan Air/Trans Am
show. Showed up early and helped set up the projectors
and sound.

Then it was dinner. The ps211 guys had organized
about 20 people bringing food. The Japan Air guys
bought a ton of home made sushi that was quickly
devoured (I had more than my fair share, especially
the sesame crusted tuna…mmmmm)

First up was All Astronauts. All Astronauts is
Kemp and Kat (formerly of Malabaster) and
Fred (formerly of Squatweiler). Heavy mathy rock
stuff. Really cool. Apparently only their second show,
but excellent.

Next up was Japan Air. Excellent as always. (I’ve
known these guys since middle school, and we share
very similar musically tastes, so I’m not the least bit
impartial…). The Trans Am guys seemed to dig
it as well. Oh, and there cd’s arrived Friday, so
they had the new cd at the show. It’s called
“antarctica starts here”.

And of course, Trans Am. There played a long
set of almost entirely new songs (I think only
three old songs where “old” means “released”).
Almost the whole set was new stuff from the
new album and very cool. They also have
added a member, a second drummer/guitarist,
and it really seemed to flesh out the new stuff.

And to top it off, headed down to
Charlotte Sunday for Center City Fest. Mainly
went down to see Lake Trout, but couldn’t
resist hanging around for Jethro Tull.