Dead Herring is a great place to see bands. The cozy apartment is warm and welcoming with colorful streamers running across the ceiling and fresh-baked cookies coming out of the oven. There’s even a perfect loft space to perch on, peering down on the bands from above. Real Estate was the first band of the night; I’ve written before about how much I admire these guys. Their live set was good- a lot of very exciting and different ideas in their music. While I still think they need more performance experience under their belts, if this band keeps going they have really good chances of doing very, very exciting things with their career. Unfortunately, I ran out of batteries for my camera, so I only got pictures of Real Estate and Dinowalurs, but Bachelor of Arts, The Forms, and Boogie Boarder also played.
Real Estate:
Dinowalurs:
[...] above photo is one I took of Real Estate from a Dead Herring show the first week in March of 2009. It’s nice to look back on that post and know that they DID [...]