As most of you know, House of Blow (side project of Daryl Palumbo and F. Sean Martin) played their first show last Saturday. Here’s the setlist, a few pictures, and a few reviews.

SETLIST:
1. Intro (they’re all still pigs)
2. Banger
3. Tell it to the Pope
4. You’re One of the Ones I Won’t Remember (probably not the title)
5. The Grapevine
6. Afghani Black

PICTURES:

REVIEWS:

By Niccolai

I took a zillion pictures and had the same problem with the fog. I’ll post them tomorrow since I just had to drive 3 hours home from the show and I’m tired.

I also recorded their entire set, but I used my cellphone and I don’t have a USB to connect my phone to my computer, so I would haveto email it tomyself in 1 minute clips.. and yea I’m definately not doing that.

Anywho, their set was awsome, but due to daryl not being able to hear everything, there was some off timing and fumbling over words. I also think he must have put a few drinks down because he forgot the words to the last verse of afgani black.

It was still awsome though.

Alot of people were turned off from the song Banger that they recently put on myspace, but their other songs don’t sound like that, a few of them had an almost glassjaw sound.

I also got what appears to be their set list

I’ll add my pictures tomorrow, and if anyone is ever thinking about driving from eastern new hampshire to central CT for one band’s set, it’s WAY worth it.

Oh, and also there were exotic dancers…. or “Naked white girls” as Daryl called them.

By Wexes is With Hexes

i got onstage during XO’s line-up because all of you are insane and climb each other and then XO would like tackle each other and the ladies into the crowd then friggin one of them grabbed the microphone stand i was behind and he sung it around his head before he trashed it and fell upon it. I was in the far right corner of the stage the whole time.

XO was the most ridiculous band i have ever seen.

and HOB played like 5 songs and an intro:
1. Intro (theyre all still pigs)
2. Banger
3. Tell it to the Pope
4. You’re One of the Ones I Won’t Remember (probably not the title)
5. The Grapevine
6. Afghani Black

i’m nearly positive thats right but i’m a little hazy, and the third one could have been later in the show cause i seem to remember them playing another song that was biblical-ish inbetween Grapevine and Afghani, and i know he followed Banger with a very soft song (Banger was much much much better live, sorry tool, i think you’re wrong on this one because he added so much more life than whats in the mp3). I wanted the set list but it was two pieces of paper that daryl brought with him and made sure to leave with and there was a ton of writing on both sheets so what i kind of figured was maybe they were lyric-starters or something of that nature cause everyone was so friggin high i’m surprised they did the show.

f. sean was the man and i found this randow white towel when thew doors first opened and i hung out in the parking lot, where i saw him, daryl and i think Krazyglue pile into F. Sean’s xterra to probably blaze around 7ish, and after the show i had him signed it and i waited for daryl but he is wiley cause this is twice he’s eluded me because i hung around until 2:30am this morning and no dice. I might post a picture of it, he signed it:
XO SK
F. SEAN
HOB

I got Slow Suicide Stimulus and Yakballz setlists and i could probably post those too. At the merch table they had this wacky demo tape or something by XO and it was limited to 40 so i bought one for $2 but i’m not gonna open it for the sake of collecting and also my lack of a cassette tapedeck. It’s got a green piece of paper on it and it’s wrapped in tinfoil i’m pretty sure, so i have no idea what’s on it or what it looks like and I only remember the words “Maids” in the title.

Out of the rap groups, I thought Yakballz was the best and Benn Grimm was the worst. Grimm is the fattest d00d — beside the round bro that played keyboards during HOB (i think he’s a member of XO but he’s not on the cassette) — and he had they honeys on stage with him who were garbed in lingerie, fishnets and knee high boots (and plenty of body art) who made him a favorite, and i mean i enjoyed the ladies but friggin when he said “I’mo take my teeth out for this” and then he did… made me so sick.

But yeah, incredible show, well worth 10 bucks to be part of HOBistory and IO guess the only complaint would be when Daryl messed a couplet of lyrics in Afghani, the “I mistook you for kin” part he said “it’s the children on fire that sells” again.

I will never go back to New London, CT. Worst town I’ve ever been to.

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