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Friday, December 19
Beerland (711-1/2 Red River)
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The Astronaut Suit opens up with its own brand of psych-blues that reminds us of The Verve and Spiritualized at times, which is naturally a good thing! Lest it be unclear, “The Astronaut Suit is not a literal one, but a metaphor for the Human Body as a vessel between the Temporal and the Eternal states. Music is created through this format. It comes not from the Body but through it...” (per the band’s MySpace).
The fast emerging STEREO IS A LIE, consisting of various local luminaries, including Glynn Wedgewood (IV Thieves, Brandon Tucker (Magnet School), Davy Hamrick (Lomita), along with Justin Scott and Raul Garza, occupy the middle slot in the bill. The fledgling band is fine tuning its lush, explosive rock songs for a soon to be released debut EP. This evening’s show should be another stepping stone on its path to glory. We caught up with Wedgewood earlier this week -- read the interview after the jump.
Rachel Goldstar will be on hand to spin the beats between sets. A long-standing member of a couple of underrated bands in town (Experimental Aircraft and All In The Golden Afternoon), the prolific Goldstar also has a studio project with Jessica Bailiff (Eau Claire) as well as an overseas tape collaboration with Matt Bartram (The Static Silence). If that wasn’t enough, she contributes bass and percussion to another Austin band, The Tunnels, and has a self-titled solo 7" available for purchase via PayPal. Ask her how she keeps it all up tonight at Beerland! Attendees can participate in a raffle for a chance to win gifts hand-picked by Austinist writers. The tombola is sponsored by Incubation Music and yours truly.
Glynn Wedgewood: My birthplace is Bishop Auckland in the North East of England, it's not far from Newcastle, home of the best football team on the planet. I also lived in Coventry and then Nottingham for a while.
What were some influences during your childhood?
Football and Star Wars, so the same as everyone I guess. On the music front I remember a cousin who used to watch the U2 (Live at) Red Rocks video religiously every Sunday morning, maybe some of that rubbed off on me.
When did you move to Austin?
It was October of '05 that I to moved to Austin, although I'd been living in the city since July of that year. Things had been non-stop for a while on the music front, so when I finally got a break I took a flight back the UK, grabbed whatever I could fit in two cases and made that delightful trip back across the Atlantic to be with my (now) wife. Ever since then Austin has been home, in fact I'm a proud parent of a Texan baby!
What are the various musical projects you have been involved in here?
IV Thieves took up a lot of time for a while as did Viterbo. Other than that I've played some guitar with mrandmrsmays and done some solo shows here and there. STEREO IS A LIE is where my focus is now though.
How did SIAL come together?
I wanted to do something fresh and exciting, so once I'd written and demoed a number of songs I asked some friends if they fancied building the tunes up and getting a band together.
[The Strange Attractors MySpace]
[STEREO IS A LIE MySpace]
[The Astronaut Suit MySpace]
[Rachel Goldstar MySpace]
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