Salient Green: Rock Report November 27th 2012

Tuesday is the day Les Fat Jones normally practise. We head out to Bellvitges, an ugly neighbourhood of monolithic buildings on the way to the airport. There, we descend into the basement of one and ~~create musical gems~~ bash out arrangements of songs like smiths over a hot fire. Last night, we lugged our gear across town to do the same thing at Rocksound in Poble Nou. The difference was the eight to ten people who witnessed it.

Barcelona has great weather. It rains infrequently. The occasional time it does rain, it does so heavily and plans get cancelled. Last night was one of those times.

However, even if it had been a beautiful autumn night, I doubt the crowd would have been much bigger. We were opening for a band that not many people (nobody I know) has heard of: Mothlite. The tickets were expensive and there was zero promotion other than an event on Facebook. I felt bad for the band who were on tour form the UK.

Nevertheless, I had a good time as we tore through a 45 minute set. The sound was surprisingly good, and we played well. You can see a video here. Our guitar players our fickle tuners, leaving me to ramble between songs, a prospect even less thrilling (or interesting) in Spanish.

Mothlite performed to a few more people, maybe as many as 15. That didn't stop the singer from adorning the stage with leaves and dressing up in a variety of costumes to play some experimental pop.