Deerhoof and Autolux at the NHM last night.

[noisemachine]

So I went to the Natural History Museum yesterday to catch Deerhoof and Autolux as part of the first friday series. I got there early (around 5) to wander around the museum and eat, since I had never been there before. Pretty cool place to just chill out and walk around.

The bands played in the Hall of North American Mamals on the first floor right in front the buffalo diorama. Autolux was scheduled to go on at 8 but didn't get on until 8:35. Apparently there was a huge line around the block of people trying to get in and they were trying to squeeze as many people in without violating the fire marshall code or whatever it was.

Autolux came and did almost enitrely a noise set. After about 30 minutes of playing noise they actually started doing some songs, although I don't believe they did anything from Future Perfect. Im guessing they were all new songs. They were okay, a little more mellow and noisey than the FP stuff but not bad.

Deerhoof had an awesome set. They did all my favorites from Friend Opportunity: The Perfect Me, +81, Believe E.S.P., The Galaxist, Kidz Are So Small. All of those sounded amazing live, even though the sound system the museum has was pretty shitty and not nearly loud enough. They also played stuff like Dummy Discards a Heart, Panda Panda Panda, Flower, The Last Trumpeter Swan and some others that I can't think of right now. They played for an hour plus an encore which was nice since they were scheduled for only 45 minutes.

Overall it was really awesome. My complaints would be the late start, the sound system, and the stage was really low to the ground so it very hard to see. I could see people's heads on stage but thats about it. Didn't bring my camera so no pics but I wouldn't have gotten any good ones since the stage was so low anyways. The only other bad thing was the crowd. Lots of little LA hipster teens who were acting like assholes, disrespecting the museum by climbing on the railings, etc. and pushing their way through the very packed crowd trying to get close to the front. And lots of talking during the sets.

Anyone else go?

[bmack86]

They were both more mellow and noisy?
Damn, i wish i would have gone

[jtovar21]

Yeah I was there. It was the fourth First Friday event I'd been to this year. It was definitely way more packed than any previous First Friday. I thought the Autolux set was interesting, I would of definitely preferred to sit down through it , as it was pretty mellow. I had seen them twice before, this was definitely a different kind of set. Mostly instrumental with the band members pretty much sitting down while playing.

Deerhoof on the other hand, rocked out. I thought their last song with Busdriver was amazing.

The sound of course is always something left to be desired at the Natural History Museum. It seems like the acoustics aren't very good in that hall. I was able to record the show though. So I should have it up on dimeadozen.org within the week. The recording came it pretty well considering the place. Yes, there were annoying teenage hipsters there, but that was to be expected.

[arbouler]

i was front row. only because i had to shoot the gig for my friend's website. i havent edited em yet. i;ll post in a few days. i left after half an hour into deerhoof's set. i was like, fuck this shit, they sucked.

p/s-youre all hipsters!

jk

not really

[arbouler]

decided to edit em today instead.

deerhoof





autolux

[noisemachine]

Nice pix, arbouler!

[woogie846]

I didn't go but that sounds really cool. Do they have any more shows like that at the NHM?

[RockStr4Life]

I got there too late and it was sold out. I didn't think it would sell out. Whoops.

[noisemachine]

I didn't go but that sounds really cool. Do they have any more shows like that at the NHM?

It was a part of their First Friday series, where once a month (the first Friday of each month) the museum stays open late and they have a panel discussion, a tour, a film, etc. each time focusing on a particular area (this time it was marine biology i think). And they also have bands come and play. I think generally they are lesser known bands but this was my first time. Apparently the announcer said that this was the last one for the year...I don't know if that means the last one until 2008 or if she was speaking in terms of the academic year. Hopefully its the latter.

[noisemachine]

I got there too late and it was sold out. I didn't think it would sell out. Whoops.

Sorry you didn't get in...I didn't want to take any chances so I got there at 5 and there was nobody. It was cool though because I got to walk around the museum and in most of the rooms I was totally alone which kind of gave it a cool creepy feel to it. But they started the bands way late because they were trying to get as many people in as possible. The announcer girl said there was a huge line around going around the block.