Saturday’s rock show at Casa Nueva is celebrating several events.
It’s an album release show for the band Qiet. It’s a homecoming of sorts for Silent Lions. And it’s simply a reason to play for Ford Theatre Union and The Trojan Whores.
West Virginia’s Qiet is coming to Athens to release its new album,
Pet Driftwood (Composition #8)
which the band recorded in Athens over spring and summer with Eddie Ashworth.
The nine-piece band set out to fully capture the energy and intensity of its live show with the album, said singer and guitarist Christopher Vincent.
“It’s extremely visceral,” Vincent said. “A lot of it, it’s like a punk show.”
Vincent said since the band was influenced by world music along with rock music, he felt it was important to capture the punk energy that the band brings to the stage.
“There’s sweat, there’s blood, there’s violence, there’s hugs,” Vincent laughed. “We put on this crazy punk energy performance, and then we’re hugging at the end.”
Qiet won’t be the only band at the show inspired by punk’s energy. Silent Lions, a duo led by vocalist, bassist and keyboardist Dean Tartaglia, formerly of Mind Fish, will for the first time perform at an Athens venue with his new band with drummer Matt Klein.
Silent Lions is coming off of a recently recorded Daytrotter Session and is touring in support of its new single “Stolen in the Heat of the Moment.”
Tartaglia said the band has been inspired to make more music that feels as if it is being played live.
“With our new stuff, we’ve been doing a lot more of two guys in a room (playing),” Tartaglia said. “(It’s) a little more human at times, and a little less process.”
Also on the roster is Ford Theatre Revolution, a circus punk band from Lexington. Like Qiet and Silent Lions, Ford Theatre Revolution puts a large emphasis on its live show, which singer, guitarist and banjo player Joe Harbison said has a lot of theatrical elements on top of their punk influenced sound.
The band will play selections from their newest album
Famous Monsters
. Monsters were a theme the band wanted to focus on, with some of the songs written as old folk tales, others character studies, and some with allegorical stories.
“I really don’t want (our show) to be comfortable for people,” Harbison said. “I want it to be threatening and challenging … the theatrics that the happen, they’re not scripted.”
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