nxne ‘09
nxne this year was really really good. so much punk and garage. a lot of getting home at 6 am and waking up a few hours later. i lost count how many times i sweated through my clothes. my knees came out pretty bruised. jamie’s 2 am chip dinners.
thursday: black lips at Y&D square was packed and attack of the dancing girls. at the ‘shoe, united steel workers of montreal played one of the better sets iv seen from them but the tag team of king khan and bbq show + health blew my mind.
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friday: early show by matt and kim at the whippersnapper was another highlight, for some reason way more fun than the previous time i had seen them there. camped out at dee’s for the rest of the night to see coathangers, pterodactyl, aidswolf, mika miko, homosexuals, and teams robespierre. best surprise were pterodactyl and mika miko. kinda letdown by teams robespierre, last time i saw them was amazing, this was kinda underwhelming. wished id gone to see these are powers at silver dollar instead.
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saturday: six shooter records backlot bbq is one of my favorite summer traditions, kinda bummed that it poured but it was still a great time despite that. delicious business veggie burgers, margaritas, and good music played well by men. martin tielli played an amazing set of rheos tunes and solo stuff, luke doucet covered my favorite Band song, and justin rutledge played the most badass version of jellybean with the beauties.
the rain and eating like a fatsy baby at sneaky dee’s made me miss the sonics but later went to a place i learned was called the commotion house for japanther and davemunthier. it was a loft in industrial land but was way roomier than any house show iv been to. japanther were nice and sweaty, always the best time.
saturday night had so many after parties and house shows i lost count. but this is a part of what made nxne so great this year.
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sunday: easy day. gza and the cool kids at Y&D square. gza was amazing + had king khan with him and the cool kids were fun: I’m a rebel eating a bowl of them fruity pebble, fruity pebbles, fruity pebbles. How gangsta is that. not gangsta at all?
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