Are musicians starting to figure out how to do online sets? I swear that vocals appear to be so much better than online sets from earlier in this stay at home situation. Or maybe Instagram has spent a lot of money on technological improvements?
It being a Wednesday, I was tuned in to WFNM where
Lucy Clearwater started it off with an amazingly cheerful personality. Her vocals just had fun hitting notes and beats while her fingers plucked her guitar. Behind her, were some very tall trees. Why? She was off on a road trip.
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| Lucy Clearwater |
Next up was
Saint Blonde playing with some in-home reverb. The band was playing with 3 of the 4 members. I guess 3 of the band members had been in isolation while the 4th was working so it was nice to see that they were taking appropriate social distancing procedures. What great pop tunes. The keys, guitar and vocals all mixed together perfectly. It was like listening to a perfectly mixed album versus an online set.
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| Saint Blonde |
Next up were a couple musicians I'd seen before:
Blondfire and
Annabel Lee. I saw Blondfire way back in 2016 with a favorite band of mine called Bloke & Bird at Harvard & Stone. Her vocals just makes you wonder about possibilities. Those could been heard in her vocals, "You and me, we're larger than life."
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| Blondfire |
I previous caught Annabel Lee at El Cid during a Wild Riot event. Her online performance was just slightly toned down from her El Cid set. During her El Cid set, she was hitting those keys so hard I thought for sure she'd break the keyboard in half. Of course, she was playing this set in much more cramped confines with her back to a wall that had a number of framed posters and sketches. It she had done this set with as much energy as her El Cid set, I'm sure those frames would have fallen to the floor. A slightly toned down set didn't mean there wasn't passion in those vocals. Great way to end the night.
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| Annabel Lee |
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