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[Dec. 2nd, 2008|03:45 pm] |
http://www.myspace.com/sanserac
This is San Serac. I saw him play last night with Wilderness. I want to run it down with you.
The opener was Imaginary Planes, from Birmingham. It was pretty good, but I didn't feel like it fit with Serac and Wilderness. The show was pretty dead from the moment I got there, and I realized by the time Planes started that no one else was coming. They played, and I stood and watched soberly by myself. I had understood that Teen Getaway was going to play as well, but when the curtain came up for the second time, there was just one guy with a lot of keyboards and an Ipod. He said "This reminds me of this one time that..." and then pressed on the keyboard to make an atmospheric noise. After doing this for a second, he pressed play on the Ipod and started singing. The stage was unlit, and he was holding a reading light up to his face. It was pretty awesome, and I could see a few people dancing their asses off. One person even got up on the stage with Serac. So I walked up to the stage with the four other people and started to realize that it was Wilderness, just dancing their hearts out. Serac finished one original and then did a set of covers including Peter Gabriel and Pet Shop Boys. It kind of made my century.
Anyway, Wilderness had backlined behind Serac, so they played pretty soon after he wrapped up. I want to make it clear that at this point, Serac was sitting on the stage eating and I was one of 2 or 3 people standing on the floor watching. They were just giving it their all, playing like it was any other night, more moved by the music they had made by any crowd or lack thereof. Post-punk soundscapes with stabs of strange rhythm. It's a kind of slow, powerful music that gets into your heart and makes you feel forever. At least that's what I felt. At the end of the show, I was the only person dancing and one of 2 people even watching. They left pretty soon afterward.
I can understand that a lot of people wouldn't like either of these bands, but I just wanted to share that I had a wonderful night out on the town by myself and caught something I hadn't expected to experience. I could have planned this for a century and it wouldn't have touched me the same way, but I went out spontaneously and had my life set on fire. So there.
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