Support your local music scene #2

Local band Halflink, a photo from their Myspace site.

As I alluded to last week, last night I was out at Cactus Club to catch another local band called Halflink.

Let me tell you something – if you like your rock hard and heavy (as I do) these fellas are a band for you. They did three sets of roughly an hour each, with a mix of maybe 3/4 originals with several covers thrown in. And the covers weren’t just the normal metal staples like Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing In The Name” or Staind’s “Mudshovel” (which they did well) but also a little more obscure song like “Leader of Men” by Nickelback, which is probably my favorite song by that band. Even better, imagine a more classic mainstream rock song like “Another Brick in the Wall” on heavy-metal steroids and you get the picture. The volume might have killed Syd Barrett (if he weren’t already dead) but the song really jammed. Of course, one original they did was “Stand Up”, a song that’s gotten some airplay locally (and that’s how I heard of Halflink.)

Unfortunately, I also found out that they didn’t win the competition they were entered into last week out in Los Angeles. But it did sound like they had interest and possibly at least one show out there, which would be good. After the interest that our area got with Phil Ritchie of Lennex getting invited on the Rockstar TV show, maybe the Delmarva region can become a hotbed of national acts – who knows?

If Halflink is ready to take the next step, you might want to be at Memories in Delmar on December 2nd (a week from this coming Saturday) to catch them live.

I think also once I do my site upgrade over Thanksgiving weekend I’m going to add local band links to some of the other links I have for various blogs and such. While the focus of monoblogue is still going to be political, remember I write about things that interest me and sometimes I like to branch out.

Author: Michael

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