Girl In A Coma Show review

On Friday July 29th 2009 I was invited to attend a show at El Corazon in Seattle to checkout the all girl band who recently started what I believe to be a west coast tour and just recently released their new album “Trio B.C.” released in June of 2009.

The lineup for this event also included Veritas who were headlining but who I also didn’t care for, Rebound who it turns out had two members in the band that knew the person who came with me to the show (who we also missed and was also their last show), Roxy Epoxy who we missed to my regreats, Miss Derringer who put on an excellent show and of course Girl in a Coma.

Miss Derringer put on a great stage performance. I had only heard the band though their myspace prior to the show and was very impressed with what I heard. The lead singer has a sound and stage proformance of a 50 styles burlesque singer with matching out fit.

Girl In A Coma really was the highlight of the show this evening putting on a fantastic energetic and emotional show that I could really tell the fans and other show attendants. I had only recently heard Girl In A Coma recently when they were brought too my attention only days before the show.

El Corazon events always puts on a great show and never fails to impress me by sound quality lighting and just a great space for meeting people. While doing the meet and greet with the bands off the night I also had a chance to meet with Dave of Nickle and Dime Records who came off as a great guy.

We ended the night with several drinks in us and climbing some buildings in downtown Seattle. Unfortunately no one wanted to join us from the show but we did end up having several other people spotting us and joining us on top of a 10 story apartment building. A perfect end to a great night of music!

Cold Sweat “Severed Ties”

“Severed Ties” Starts off as a fast noiesy track “Fuck the Flock”. The song starts off as simply fast and chaotic but towards the end just breaks out into a noisy chaos and sounds more like a jam band then a real release. I don’t know if I have had too many bad experiences in Seattle with “Jam Bands” but this seems to be a pretty popular thing with bands to do in this area.

Now I am not saying these guys are a “Jam Band”. This isn’t the case what so ever. But there are a number of songs (specifially Kept In Chains) where the band just loses it and start putting out noise. There are some damn great songs on this LP though! Kicking and Screaming” starts off the B side with some bad ass lyrics and a great sound and was the best choice to start off with.

From my understanding “Cold Sweat” are no longer together and have start off on different project with the vocalist moving to the band “repercussions” and the other members in Walls.

Release Date July 2008

TRACK LISTING:
1. Fuck The Flock
2. My Rights
3. Fuck And Smile
4. Guilt Burns
5. Stop Crying
6. Kept In/Chains
7. Kicking And Screaming
8. Dead End Decision
9. Breaking You
10. 2.5 Cliche
11. Abortion Is Dinner
12. Cross In A Bottle