Crystal Castles @ Cervantes = Kind of Disappointing. At least I got nice pictures out of it.

Crystal Castles is easily my favorite thrash electro group consisting of a talented DJ who does pretty much nothing live and a "singer" who does nothing but look good, throw herself around, and scream seductively. Seriously though - I lv them. But I was very sad after seeing them last Monday the 16th (yes - I need 2 blog more) because, as my friend commented after we got through the sweaty, hormone-drenched masses - I would have rather just listened to their CD. How sad is that?

This reaction came from a couple factors:

1) The crowd was comprised of mostly high school / prematurely "hip" jr. high kids who were probably used to going to shows in order to mosh. Ok, so I went through that. But I don't think that I would have ever heard the opening notes of "Crimewave" and automatically wanted to smash into people. At Oberlin, there were some sexually overenthusiastic people, but from where I was standing, the crowd was respectful. I could hardly pay attention to the music because I was standing next to some fat guys who wanted to kill evrybdy.

2) pictureplane opened, which was nice - but he experienced some technical problems. That made me sad.

3) The official opening band was called dd/mm/yyyy or something like that. I could just tell you that progressive, pseudo-experimental weirdo-rock is "just not my cuppa tea," but that's not true. I've enjoyed almost every kind of music, and can definitely appreciate it live. But this was pretty awful. The skill was there, but the music was not. I felt like they were on stage for upwards of 30 min. I could be exaggerating. Anyway, I noticed that the guitarist was wearing a Fall of Troy T-shirt. Then I understood.

4) Crystal Castles just does better in a smaller venue. Cervantes isn't huge by any means, but it's no 'Sco. The effect of having a strobe light in your face while Alice Glass shrieks at you and writhes around on the stage in front of your eyes was, well, nonexistent. The energy was way off, and the music sounded amateur.

Reasons why I DID like the show:

1) Friends! <3

2) I got to meet Ethan! He was kute.

2) These pictures that you have been looking at.

In conclusion:
I'm gonna go listen to the album version of "Courtship Dating" and pretend this didn't happen.