rah!

you HAVE to give credit to DFA for putting in 3 days (and 4 shows) at the horseshoe-I mean at this point, a one-nighter at kool haus would likely sell out and the band would be wealthier and less weary, but the guys would have none of it I guess.

and so they arrived on stage well after midnight, to the most-packed version of the shoe I have seen in my 2 years here. and...nothing. a bad cable on Jesse's bass gave Seb 3 or 4 minutes of time to fill with some awkward impromptu standup. but they recovered, and played a load of new (or at least unknown) songs mixed in with the current favourites. even the very vocally demanding Black History Month was pulled off quite seamlessly.



the shoe's PA didn't quite measure up to the big sound I would be used to with DFA, and the ground-level stage rendered seb all but invisible whenever he was drumming, which was obviously a lot. but for a band destined to be on a cavernous ACC stage this upcoming november on the fall acronym tour with nin & QOTSA, they filled the room very well.