Line up at The High Dive on Tuesday, April 15th. Started out with The Tripwires. A bunch of guys who are in The Minus Five and The Young Fresh Fellows, classic Seattle bands. They opened up for Robyn Hitchcock the last few times he played Seattle and Hitchcock would randomly yell "Kurt Bloch in the house!" and eventually they'd end up on stage with him. So there was Kurt Bloch in the house at The High Dive. The Tripwires rock. Drummer kept kept chucking his sticks in the air.
Then, Flowers Forever.
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Props to them for their props during their live show
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Elf Power headlined. Long live indie rock. A logical inevitability to their tunes. You know where they are going and it is so good when they go there. Something humble about them.
The lead singer, Andrew Rieger.
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He laid it down. Twelve string Rickenbacker deluxe
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Encore was choice: first, a cover of Rory Erikson's "Walk With a Zombie." Then, Rieger busted into Eno's "Needles In The Camel's Eye" playing it double time nice
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