tags: Concert, FMF09, Forward Music Festival 2009, High Noon Saloon, Live Music, Majestic, Photography
Day 1 of Madison’s Forward Music Festival had me bouncing from the High Noon Saloon to The Majestic where I ended up staying despite previous plans to race back to The High Noon.
First up was All Tiny Things who’s airy, looping, keyboarding songs were very nice atmosphere and I’ve read good things but I had to hit the road.
Racing over to The Majestic to catch At Night In The Box, a foursome out of Minneapolis who I hadn’t heard of prior to doing my research for FMF09 but who very quickly stood out as I paged through all 100 bands’ MySpace pages. Mixing acoustic folk, fuzzed out electric blues, blues and indie into one I’m really glad I didn’t overlook them. For only play 3-5 songs they put on a hell of a show and I was disappointed their set didn’t last a few more songs.
Next up was Gold made up of two guitars and drums. Can’t find anything on them on the internets which is too bad because I dug their loud, hard rocking tunes.
The end of my night was with Puerto Rican punk band Davila 666 who came on looking like they’d been ‘prepping’ for their set for quite some time. With bass, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, lead singer and a tambourine player all crowding the front of the stage I wasn’t sure what to expect. With each backing vocal part, each member of the band (drummer included) all poured their all into the various mics around the stage singing backup and dancing around.
Between A Night At The Box and Davila 666 I’ve found two more acts to follow…
