While I don’t partake in the herb that made the date famous 4-20 turns out to be a great night for the music scene just in Salisbury (and close environs) alone. I’m not out to make monoblogue a total concert connection website, but tomorrow is a date worth mentioning because of the quantity and quality of the bands performing everything from grindcore to blues-based and classic-style rock. It almost makes me wish they’d spread things out a little bit!
Almost every local venue has a band of some sort tomorrow night, I guess one can think of it as full employment night for local musicians. I’m just going to concentrate on three multi-band venues and one other that has a good band that’s not on the Eastern Shore much because they’re from Pennsylvania. That band is one I wish had come down on a different date but looking at their tour schedule they generally stay in PA. I have to note that they do have shows set up in my old neck of the woods out at Put-In-Bay, Ohio (home of the world’s longest bar!)
In terms of sheer number of bands you can’t beat the delmarvanightlife.com 42-0 show at Brew River. There are eleven acts on three stages, and it all begins outside on the deck at 4:30 with Matthew King playing a solo acoustic set. (Tomorrow will be a bit cool but sunny, 60 degrees.) That stage will remain open until about sundown with Pirate Radio doing an acoustic show as well, wrapping up with All Down But Nine.
Moving indoors to the River Stage, beginning at 8:00 it will be Another Vicious Cycle, Lime Green, Project Sideways, Skitzo Calypso, The Frauds, and Pirate Radio (another set, this time plugged in.) On the Main Stage starting at 9:00 it’s my friends from Semiblind, followed by The Barking Crickets, The Cheaters, the Matthew King Band (I assume that’s an electric set as well), finishing with Lower Class Citizens.
And a big thanks to Michelle and company for cluing me into the schedule. Each set runs about 40 minutes so figure each hour there’s a new band. I link to many of these bands directly from monoblogue because they’re from the local area (and I like them), but also most of the other groups have a Myspace page you can check out as well. Hopefully the bands run a little ahead or behind schedule because I can see some serious conflicts as far as who I’d like to see when, plus I can’t get there until about 9:00 anyway because I wrap up my bowling season tomorrow night.
Not to be outdone, local alternative rock station (and big local music supporter) X106.9 has its “Spring Fling” just down Business Route 13 at the Monkey Barrel. They bring a very respectable seven bands into the fray, including local legend Lennex as the headliner. The other six bands are Falling from Failure, Extortion by Duress, Breath of Life, Goatbag, Futhamucka, and Havok in Hollywood. I’m not sure which order they are in, but I do know they’ll start this free show at 7:00.
And just up the street, if you like to shoot pool and listen to a good-sounding band, that’s the case at Break Time Billiards. The band ’til December comes down for a show there. It’s a group I’d love to see come down more often, that’s for sure. (Danie, if you read this, go to Put-In-Bay come June and check these guys out.)
I’d also be remiss to not mention the other outdoor venue this weekend. The “Pork in the Park” rib festival will have a number of blues and blues-rock groups this weekend. (The schedule is here.) I’ve already checked into the forecast and, unlike last year’s total rainout, there’s nothing but sunny skies predicted this weekend. So bring your sunscreen, a light jacket (for the evening), and don’t trash the place too much because my job’s going to entail cleaning up. (Trash, not ribs. After the shift is a different story.) And as a special sort-of-secret added bonus, come about 9:30 or so Saturday night you’d be close enough to see the fireworks from the Shorebirds game. I live about equidistant the other direction and I see (and hear) them nicely out my front window.
Because of all this, posting will be light over the weekend. I’ll have camera in hand though and let’s just say I’m glad I bought plenty of batteries recently. Next week I’ll do my little trick of posting the pictures of the bands on monoblogue and writing a review on my Myspace page. So look for me out and about!
I love your blog’s title.
Rock ON!