Red Sea, Live @ Johnny Brenda’s

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Atlanta Bands, concert video, johnny brendas, live music, live philly concerts, Red Sea, Red Sea Band

Motoring in from Atlanta, GA, Red Sea took the stage at JB’s in Philly on December 5th 2012 to play their brand of progressive noise rock. The quartet comprised of Kyle Sherrill, Stephen Luscre, Mick Mayer and Patrick Mayer has a unique sound driven by great melody and 80’s post-wave vocal stylings. For some evidence, check out their EP below via bandcamp (with decidedly awesome cover art in our opinion).

Red Sea on this evening brought a great complimentary sound to the other bands playing and rounded out the show perfectly. Their tight compositions were characterized by synchronicity in all members contributions. This in itself made the set enjoyable but pleasing and soul-moving guitar chords pushed the set to the next level. The performance showcased how good some local indie rock acts are in the ATL and talking with the band after the show proved that they are not only great musicians, but nice people as well. Plus, we had to mention, Red Sea pressed music on cassette tape which we always are drawn towards – long live the medium. Extra points to their merch offering there.

We had been excited to see Red Sea before the show and afterwards are still stoked to see them again at some point in time. Until then, we shall re-watch the video taken and so can you:

Los Campesinos!, Live @ Union Transfer

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Cardiff, concert video, live music, live philly concerts, Los Campesinos!, Los Campesinos! band, R5 Productions, Union Transfer, Wichita Records

Los Campesinos! from Cardiff, UK rocked the Union Transfer in Philly on November 18th playing to a huge crowd of fans.  An exuberant live performance was displayed performing tracks new and old.  Consisting of Ellen Campesinos!, Gareth Campesinos!, Neil Campesinos!, Tom Campesinos!, Kim Campesinos!, Rob ‘Sparky Deathcap’ Campesinos!, and Jason Campesinos! on this night they also had a guest trumpeter.  Gareth talked to the crowd a fair amount making jokes about the mosh pit and how participants never get laid after the show and about their tour assistant whom he likened to a butler in the nicest verbiage possible.  Besides crowd talk, Gareth delivered the tracks with flair and gusto complementing the diverse sound (definitely not to be classified as twee) coming from the multitude of musicians that comprise the band.  The audience paid it forward singing and clapping along with songs and made a rudimentary go at crowd surfing.  If you like Los Campesinos!, this really was an excellent show.

Los Campesinos! Live @ UT

The band formed back in 2006 in Cardiff, Wales while at University.  Within a few months of forming, they were already touring as the opener for Broken Social Scene.  Since then, the band has released 3 LPs and 2 EPs.  While the word campesino in Spanish translates to “peasant” or “country person,” Los Campesinos! have certainly shed their peasant skin with hugely popular tracks featured in ads and other mass media.

We captured a lot of video from the night so as not to miss anything.  Inevitably, we did miss some but want to leave you with the 9 videos we took.  Enjoy: