Artist: Eyeballs
Songs: two unknown songs*
Recorded at MOCA (Not Dead Yet Presents), June 29, 2019.
There was a bit of physical/emotional dislocation and relocation at this show, sorting through the realities and ironies of our gentrifying city. Recently a sort of semi-abandoned zone where off-the-grid culture flourished (and just over from where some cool DIY loft spaces used to be) and in a formerly-abandoned building (where audiences and musicians like the ones at hand used to sneak in and explore and smoke a joint, looking out over the city) this show took place in the new Museum of Contemporary Art, now refinished with a sort of austere/pricey minimalism and filled with Expensive Things. From the back of the long, rectangular space, held up by large circular concrete pillars, it looked not unlike a show taking place underneath a highway overpass — and by virtue of the space, it sounded more than a little like one too. Is this a simulacrum of independent culture, selling us back our nostalgia for a recently-departed past at a bespoke markup? Or is it just a matter of trying to find any sort of space in a city where space for the DIY spirit is getting crowded out?
Even a fire alarm couldn't derail the make-our-own-fun clamour of this disco-punk duo. Loud-as-all-get-out and with the vox buried a bit, this felt like a giant basement party filled with thrumming dirges and square wave dance tracks.
* Does anyone know the title to these? Please leave a comment!
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