Philly Music!
I WAS AN INTRUDER
I felt like an intruder. Philly band "Hot Guts" was one of the bands in the lineup at Underground Arts a week ago Thursday night. This was my first time seeing them.
Hot Guts consists of Wes Russell who did vocals and guitar on the right-hand side of the stage and Shari Vari who played a complex set of electronics and keys laid out in a backwards "L" formation on the left-hand side of the stage.
Just looking at Wes, I felt like an intruder. Wes performed the vocals as if he were singing personally for the microphone. He was standing sideways, his left side facing the audience, and he was leaning slightly forward, his face just a few inches from the mike, and he was singing to that mike is if there was no one else in the room. He gave a good performance, even though he didn't know know we were there. :)
But the band was not detached. Shari maintained a good eye contact with the audience on behalf of both members. And, what's more, the intensity of her performance was so strong that, at times, the floor shook, as did my chair.
This band was similar to Brontide which I talked about in my previous blog in that the band's performance was a lot more intense live than in recorded form. ... A sample of the recorded music is "Heater Beauty", which is from 2011 and is playing right here on my blog page.
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7/5/20 UPDATE! ::: OOPS! Looks like the band removed this song from their webpage!
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To visit Hot Guts, here is the click ::: Hot Guts (CLICK HERE)
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