1300 concerts in five days? Got a feeling you are not seeing them all? So do I. It would of course be an impossibility for one person to do anything approaching a complete coverage of the journal’s musical hailstorm of bands.
If all you had to do in a day was watch bands, you could cover maybe 14. If you are covering them on Ludlow Street in the evening and you are swift as hell, add another 6 so that makes a maximum of 20 bands a day. Over 5 days 100 bands out of 1000.
There are three ways to deal with this:
1. Have a team of writers out.
2. Group bands together (I missed Wednesday’s indie folk line up).
3. Wing it.
I’ve been winging it and trying to make up for that by writing full reviews of the bands I do see as opposed to a paragraph in a larger post. The hope is to maybe not see as much as other people but really watch what I do see.
Unfortunately, that has lead me to only catch the tail end of bands I really liked, like Doprah from New Zealand. I really enjoyed the five minutes I did see an indie rocking sound with a chick singer and a deep grove for rock and roll, I am less keen on the eponymous EP but that could change with more listens. Despite the band playing another three times, the timing didn’t connect.:
Fortunately, the bands I have seen have been uniformly excellent; I don’t know who is responsible for the screening of these bands but they deserve an award or two. These have been cusp and beyond bands of first rate musicians, I am more than pleased with the time I’ve spent on this.
The big day is coming up soon, Saturday I will be rolling from maybe noon to 8pm, then I’ll give up, I hope to catch eight bands and tell you all about them.
