Phasmatodea played Friday night at Bickett Gallery.

Show went pretty well. We were having some odd technical issues that got me a bit more frustrated than it probably should of. Started a little late, but not too much. I played guitar all night, since playing stick wasn’t really practical with my wrist hurting. I took that Parker and the fretless, but played the fretless all night.

Some nice pics at base10’s flickr gallery

First set wasn’t bad, a little disoriented to start with, but thats not uncommon for that type of thing. Second was nice, very ambient and melodic.

Third was probably my favorite, if a bit odd. My part was mostly kind of growling vocalesque buzzing guitar lines (ebowed guitar with lots of modulartion via string bending, whammy bar, and bending the neck around so the strings fretout against the frets).

Then, someone in the audience started singing. Very loudly. Loud enough for me standing infront of the amp to hear it. I thought someone had turned on the house music at first, as a not so subtle hint to end. But a quick scan of the crowd didn’t seem to indicate anything. So I decided to get louder. And weirder. And annoying. So thats how the
set ended. No idea who was singing (aside from “someguy in a hawaiian shirt”).

Plumerari were the headliners, and were excellent. Kind of shoegazery pop with nice guitar work and very impressive vocals. Enjoyed the set alot.