I headed to the Drake last night to interview the Great Bloomers for an upcoming episode of Soundcheck, and stuck around to see them play later on. I last saw the Bloomers play two summers ago at Track and Field, and since I liked them back then and bought their EP, I was interested in seeing how far they’ve come. They have a new album called Speak of Trouble coming out on April 21st so they mostly played songs from that, but also this song ‘Black Rising Fire’ from the aforementioned 2007 EP. Watch for their episode of Soundcheck in April.
As for the show, they were really good! Their new songs have a lot of cool time changes and lots of awesome piano.
Here is a video I shot yesterday of Gentleman Reg playing at Soundscapes. I started listening to Gentleman Reg way back when because he was signed to the same label as Cuff the Duke and the Cons. That was a long time ago now, about 5 years, but he’s finally putting out a new album, which is cool. Anyway, I wasn’t sure if I was going to go to this in-store or not. I wanted to, but I was having a crummy day so I thought of staying in. However, the best cure for the blues is to go out and have fun, amirite folks? So I went to Soundscapes with my new camera in tow and had a great time. I saw plenty of friends, and got to try out my new camera in a familiar setting. I think the footage is a lot better than what I was getting with my old camera, wouldn’t you say? It’s even in HD (so it might take longer to load). Hope you enjoy it, feel free to post it on your own blog or e-mail it to a friend.
