Concert Review: Titus Andronicus, Pink Socks, and I Love You at the Pistol, 7/24/08
Titus Andronicus, Pink Socks, and I Love You
Date: July 24, 2008
Venue: The Pistol Social Club
Better Than: Watching Macbeth, the White Sox, and P.S. I Love You at The Buena Vista Social Club
By GRANT SNIDER
Titus Andronicus sounds like The Pogues – if The Pogues got stupid drunk and played each song as loud and fast as possible. It’s a testament to the band’s manic endurance that they sustained this energy throughout a set where the power went out more than three times. Each flip of the circuit breaker brought the band out of awkward darkness and back into a raging punk tantrum. Give Titus Andronicus credit: playing in the wee hours of the morning, shaking off multiple power outages, and following a solid local band, they managed to keep the crowd rumbling like The Sharks versus The Jets.
Electrical problems notwithstanding, The Pistol Social Club is a phenomenal venue. The “club” is actually a spacious level of a not-really-gentrified warehouse, scattered with oversized artwork and overweight cats. It’s revived urban detritus straight from an architecture student’s wet dream. Having just returned from an outdoor music festival at which sound was stolen by the open air, I was delighted to experience the rich acoustics of a cube made of brick and wood.
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