Weekend - 2011-12-03 - The Bay Brewed - Verdi Club SF

Weekend
2011-12-03
"The Bay Brewed"
Verdi Club SF

taper: tomzero



equipment: Sonic Studio mics -> Edirol R-09HR (24 bit / 48 kHz) -> Nero (level boost & downsample to 16 bit / 44.1k) -> cd wav -> flac level 8

setlist

Falling Away
Veil
End Times
Afterimage
The One You Want 
Untitled
Hazel
Coma Summer

Complete audio recording (FLACs in zipfile)

Exclusive video footage of an excerpt from 'Veil' / 'End Times' > 'Afterimage' (also linked above)

"And finally Weekend, who were well worth the wait.  thehappyone points out that this setlist wasn't as good as that from the apartment show. Still a great show. Oddly enough, the hall had emptied out a little by the end, and it was over by 7pm. It might have had something to do with the fact they stopped serving beer just after Weekend took the stage. Then again, anyone who'd like the previous two bands..."

Note:  There were two other bands that played "The Bay Brewed", we have exercised our editorial perogative in choosing not to cover them here at this time.

If you're liking this, please do yourself a huge favor and visit the Slumberland Records site and BUY their releases:

Red EP 12"/CD/Ltd Ed 12"

End Times 7"

Sports 2xLP/CD

For a list of all known Weekend performance footage...

Weekend and The Soft Moon - 2011-11-09 - Secret Show, Oakland CA

Durkan, Johnson, Pedroza

Weekend
2011-11-09
Secret Show
Oakland CA

Kevin J.

Setlist

Falling Away
End Times
Sweet Sixteen
Hazel
untitled new song
Veil
The One You Want
Age Class
Coma Summer



Incubation bittorrent (FLAC files in zipfile).


I've added in my compatriot's recording, which sadly, ends at the start of Sweet Sixteen.

Video (Falling Away/End Times/last half of Coma Summer)

Anastasi, Vasquez, Way

The Soft Moon
2011-11-09
Secret Show

All smiles all the Way

Oakland CA

Setlist

Joy Divsion - As You Said intro
We Are We (alt vid of end)
Breathe The Fire
Circles
Out Of Time
Dead Love
Parallels
Alive
Tiny Spiders

Incubation bittorrent (FLAC format)

I'm not sure what this was about...


Two things about the 'secret location' (in effect, a house show) that caused a bit of trepidation right off the bat:

(1) there was a lot of people crammed in the small space
(2) we were up on the 2nd floor, how much weight can the floor bear?

But there was really nothing (well, not much) to worry about, everything turned out great in the end, and you couldn't beat the price (free).  Both these three-pieces have been getting some seriously good (and deserved) press, so that they would even consider doing this is cool beyond words.  

The Soft Moon went on and played a really good set, though I had seen them a few days before and so I wanted to give others a chance to get up close, at least that's my excuse, the truth was it was so crowded I got pinned a bit further back than what I was hoping for.  Weekend's set was amazing, and for that I was down in front, the video footage I shot should give you some idea, Kevin could have easily brained me with the head of his guitar, and probably *should have* for my impudence.

Due to getting bumped, my compatriot only recorded the first two Weekend songs, so we only have mine to go from, heavily re-EQ'ed as the mics were under somebody's purse at one point.  The Soft Moon effort is the usual dual-source blend.


Some more pics:

The location

This was pinned on the wall

80's era boombox somebody had brought for tunes

For more photos, see my Flickr collection.

Weekend - 2011-05-19 - The Independent SF

Weekend
2011-05-19
The Independent SF


Recording by TZ0
Sonic Studios Mics > Edirol R09-HR


Setlist, slightly amended from original posting.


intro
Age Class
Veil

new song
End Times
new song
new song
Monday Morning
Monongah, WV
Coma Summer


Download  (FLACs)


Photos by Sam Heller


Opening acts

Clipd Beaks set available here.


(TH1 recording, done with Sound Professionals CMC-SP-4s > CA11 > Sony PCM-M10)


Jealousy set available here.
(TZ0 recording)


A video of the elusive Jealousy...


Just crank these up loud, and enjoy.  I'm not sure what I can say besides this was the second time seeing Mark Treise (as Jelousy) play his bass drone Minimal Man-type set, which I quite liked.  Clipd Beaks reminded me of Crispy Ambulance but a bit less angular, they shall hopefully find their identity in time.

Weekend.  "End times" indeed.  Had there been a Rapture and the end of the world, this would have been the soundtrack.  The group brought these crystal colored spheres which gave the stagehand guy fits getting to work, but which added the appropriate color tones.

Shaun asked the crowd what people were going to do on Saturday.  Being a SF audience, some joker yelled back "Smoke weed!".  The response:  "Smoke weed?  You don't think much of yourselves, don't you.  Weed is about the last drug I'd do.  I'd smoke black crayons, because that shit is the hardest."  You just had to be there.

My favorite of the set was the song right after, a new one, with a Hooky-style bass riff, a spine of a drum beat and Kevin Johnson's soaring guitar squalls, and the plaintive cry of "Hazel" as the chorus...

Don't miss these guys if they happen to play in your town.