The Kills

Saw The Kills on Friday night at Barbati's Pan. Heard them on the radio Thursday morning while taking a shower trying to wake up along with a description of "like the white stripes but sexier" and I was sold. I'm super paranoid about getting tickets before a show. Ever since I tried to see a THE HIVES concert in Boston and got laughed away at the door. So I'll pretty much always bend over and take it up the ass and pay ticket master their ridiculous fees. But sodomy aside we could have gotten tickets at the door just fine.

The venue was alright spacious, hot as hell, the sound system was total crap. The only lyrics I heard from the opening act was "danny glover" and "I want to fuck you in the face." The opening act was a band whose name I can't remember (mmm..rum and cokes...) had lead singer that really could have used a good snort of speed cup of coffee. I spent most of their set making friends with the bartender.

The Kills were what one would describe as Punk.pop. Depending on the song they veered from a good old fashioned punk throw down, through a twangy almost country song, a right at popyy sing-along-able catchy tune and landed in a euphoric dissonance filled lullaby. The stage presence was right on. Appropriate amounts of convulsions and stamping about energized the audience. Big plus for me is that they put some thought into their presentation. They had a projector showing random black and white video clips of cowboys, small children skipping rope, fire works and much more. Sometimes the images were confusing and I guess one could say gave it a modern art feel other times the video was right on in evoking emotion and atmosphere (fireworks!!). Have a listen.