Kissing Cousins / Past Haunts / Future Ghost / Worker Bee @ Silver Factoryhehe

What a night friday was! While Heather and I spent all day collecting the necessary decorations for the Kissing Cousins' second annual Halloween show I sensed a minor feeling of anxiety. Often times it's tough to get people out to the Silver Factory especially when the show is guaranteed to go late. Luckily my anxiety as usual was baseless. Probably induced by five days off the sauce! A brief recap of the evening has the Past Haunts opening the show.

The Past Haunts is Travis from Piebald / The Duke Spirit's new project that features Heather and I in the backing band roll. The crowd reaction suggested that we stole the show.

Next was our out of town band, Worker Bee. These poor guys had their tour van break down outside of the venue right before the show. Add that to some sound difficulties and a lesser band would have gave a lackluster performance. But these kids did just the opposite. Their set was moody and infectious as is their new full length record Tangler.

The Cousins headlined and treated us to two Halloween-esque covers. All dressed as witches and the bar serving witches' brew it was only fitting to open with "Witchy Woman" and end the set with "Devil Inside." I've had the pleasure of watching these ladies evolve from a one off novelty act to a thunderously evil live act. Their new record Pillar of Salt should make quite a few top ten lists this year.

The night was capped by the newly minted three piece Future Ghost. They are another band that I've followed from their first show and I am happy to report they work better as a three piece than a four piece. Having one guitarist allows Brandon's riffs the atmospheric space to be gigantic while Kim's bass lines are now clear and driving behind Brandon Hardy's pulverizing drum playing.

The adventure continued after the show as we made trips in our volvo back and forth to our rehearsal space where we stored Worker Bee's equipment until they got their van fixed. Thankfully it was in need of only minor repairs and they were safely on their way on Saturday.