Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Day 18: 511 House. Florence, South Carolina. 3-22-08


This was the first day in two weeks -- since our Colorado dates -- that we wold be playing somewhere we had played before as we had played at the 511 House back in October during our Fall 2007 East Coast Tour. It was a rainy October evening and despite there only being a few people there, was a really fun and unique show. Thus we were pumped to be back despite the rather limited space and limitations considering our big sound. We were pumped for multiple reasons, but mostly because the people behind the 511 House are awesome. David is a music enthusiast / technophile / photographer with a fantastic beard and a ton of goodness in his heart and his dancing feet -- all of the action photos in this blog were taken by him. Carmen is a sweetheart and writes rad tunes for her ukelele driven duo with her brother Tony called The Mountain Yellers. Really awesome stuff. She also makes some killer muffins. She's also an owl lover. So we get along great. So many fun knick-knacks throughout the house... but the wall of owls is definitely a highlight.
They greeted us so warmly again and cooked up a couple of pizzas and we all plopped down on their couch to watch a movie. Truly felt like we were home having a casual family evening. So nice. We put in “Lars and the Real Girl” per their suggestion. Great movie. Really funny and interesting about a guy who falls in love with a life-size doll. Sort of. It’s pretty wild. Definitely recommend checking it out. We didn’t actually finish it before people started showing up, so we paused it and would finish it in the morning.

A band from the Columbia, SC area called Castalia cruised over to play with us. Beth from Castalia is originally from Florence so that helped get some people out. That and there had been a positive buzz from our last show there. Made for a fun scene. And Castalia was great. Nice edgy alt-rock stuff. Beth playing bass and belting out the vocals. Fun set. We, however, didn't play that well. Sound was weird for us and overall vibe was a little off. Made for a weird set. We did get some crazy dance moves out of some folks by dropping Pump It, Fill It midset -- which was fun. We weren't horrible, but we did all feel uncharacteristically off. Grooves weren't hooking up and kind of affected our energy. Still, everyone was nice and clapped and moved their bodies all over. Then we all through our fists in the air and hung out into the wee hours. It was fun. We got over kinda sucking for a night pretty quickly. The good news is that David got some radical photos. Check em out, we'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story:














thanks to everyone that came out to the 511 show. we had a blast. y'all are a special breed.

reporting for all of us Finn Rigginses.
g:/bert

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