Sorry for confusing you. I went to this show. At the show, there was a kitten in the ceiling. I later took this kitten home and now she is my cat. In conclusion, show was good, kitten is great, and she met Bruno Wizard.

I wish Fey Gods didn't always play first because I'm so disappointed when I miss them. I know there's a lot of set up involved though, so I'm guessing that trend will continue, and I will have to arrive earlier. Favorite new band of '08

Raven/Cheater Slicks at Summit on Halloween

Damn! Forgot about this one... Raven was terrifying looking and terrifyingly good.

And Tom from the Slicks was dressed as zombie Abe Lincoln...

I like that Raven had a Halloween costume beneath his mask.

Another favorite show: Bathhouse, Skarekrauradio, Cave at Skylab.

Box Elders/Grave Blankets at Bourbon

Fabulous Diamonds/Horseshit at Carabar.

CHEATER SLICKS/UNHOLY 2 at various locales

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Hair Police @ Skylab

Wrote this for the work blog, figured I'd post it here too:

Live Music of 2008:

I had a longer list and was going to try and put it in some kind of order, but then I realized that I saw some performances this year that were so excellent, groundbreaking, surprising etc that they defied ranking. In other words, they were basically “perfect”. I also realized that some of the great bands I saw play merely good shows should not be included, and I narrowed it down to the following (in chronological order):

Pink Reason at Beachland Ballroom (Cleveland OH) 01/26/08

Kites/ Kevin Shields/ Justice Yeldham at Churchhill's Pub as part of the Intl Noise Conference (Miami Florida) 02/14-16/08

Holographic Dog Disease at Skylab (Columbus OH) 02/20/08

Laundry Room Squelchers/ Psychedelic Horseshit/ Out There Dudes at Skylab as part of the Columbus iteration of the Intl Noise Conference (Columbus OH) 04/20/08

Anna Ranger at Rumba Café (Columbus OH) ??/??/08

TV Ghost at Bernies Distillery (Columbus OH) 06/14/08

Nelson Slater's Bored Teen War Team at Skylab (Columbus OH) 06/28/08

Panicsville at Skylab (Columbus OH) 06/18/08

Hair Police at Skylab (Columbus OH) 07/27/08

Little Claw at Carabar (Columbus OH) 09/13/08

Jandek (w/ Ryan Jewell, C. Spencer Yeh, and Derek Dicenzo) at Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus OH) 10/10/08

Ludo Mich / Koonda Holla at Bokal Royal (Brussels Belgium) 11/02/08

Indian Jewelry at Cave 12 (Geneva Switzerland) 11/09/08

Adam "Smitty" Smith/ Russian Tsarlag at Skylab (Columbus OH) 11/22/08

Aaron Dilloway at Modern Formations (Pittsburgh PA) 12/13/08

One last comment about venues: I’m not really surprised at how many of the shows above were at Skylab this year, but I am surprised that none of them were at Café Bourbon St (or for that matter, any of the other DIY venues here in town). The many shows I saw at Bourbon St in 2008 were almost always good, and I am surprised myself to note that none of them made this list.

That TV Ghost show at Bernies was so awesome. The party at Plank's afterward, where that asshole from Young Zeus was screaming at Lutzko, was fun as hell too. Best night of the Summmmer.

avett bros in bloomington
obits @ summit
howlies @ carabar x 2
thomas function @ summit
motorpsycho @ wex
earwig all over the place x 999
riverboat gamblers @ the basement
used to be women @ bobo
hugs & kisses @ comfest
necropolis @ jack's arcade
red dawn II @ bobo
bookmobile @ rumba
jason frederick @ summit
box elders @ bobo
vivian girls @ bobo
homosexuals @ summit
the potluck @ summit - esp chinn & bandman & lydia's band (=winners!!1!!!)
priestess @ ravari
daycreeper all over the place x 1000
the sun @ ravari
ugly stick @ bobo
the pets @ ravari
ryan jewell's most recent set @ the summit. fanfuckingtastic.
birds of hair @ bobo
good company good company good company
anytime that one girl sang 'house of the rising sun' @ ravari karaoke
anytime anyone spontaneously busted into 'the bitch done gave me the clap again'

Two that spring to mind are Blind Melon @ The Newport and Darker My Love @ The Summit. Gotta say that The Strange Boys were the best live discovery of 2008 (opening for Darker My Love).

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here's of my favorite shots from 2008, which are pretty much my favorite shows that i saw too.

paper chase @ carabar was pretty awesome too, as was the tommy jay cd release @ carabar, i don't think those are in the photos.

may be late but i don't care as it comes to my mind :

white mice, dj scotch egg, swordheaven, skylab
biff boff barf, bourbon street
cluster, hair police, no fun fest
birds of hair, bourbon street in august
panicsville, peasant graves, skylab
envenomist, skylab
outer space, tanked, jewell/hasan rasaq/marrota, skylab
psych. horseshit, skully's
drunkdriver, summit
unholy two, summit
aaron dilloway, voice of the valley festival in west virginia, and in pittsburgh
twink bully, skylab and bobo w/ matt bush
moviola, surly girl
sunburned hand of the man, silent barn, nyc
evan parker, marylin crispell, boston
god willing, unicorn hard-on, black flag, ryan jewell, rot ton bone, voice of the valley festival, west virginia
out there dudes, bourbon street
extreme animals, le kay, eagle in detroit
erik minkinnen, miroiterie, paris
brainbow at skully's

that's it

Radiohead @ Santa Barbar Bowl 08/28/2008
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