More Rock

Last night I headed across the street to Maxwell's to see the Super Furry Animals, an eccentric rock band hailing all the way from Wales. Carl (from NYRR) turned me on to them about a month ago when he mentioned they were going to be playing at Maxwell's. Hardly one to resist live music right across the street, I picked up some tickets, and the two of us, plus C's girlfriend and another friend, checked out the show. (First, we hit up yummy Italian spot Margherita's--excellent "mutz" and pasta!--which Mark joined us for). He went home to star in his own rock show (Guitar Hero) and we moved on to Maxwell's for the 10:15 show. The "Animals" played until 12:15, tearing through about 30 songs total. According to Carl, they have about ten times more tunes in their repoitoire--as he said, they're quite prolific.

For the most part, I loved their stuff. The uptempo songs, especially, were great to dance (or just bop your head) to. Plus, their Welsh accents were pretty nice on the ears. And at one point, the lead singer Gruff Rhys (yep, that's his name...the other guys have names like Huw, Guot, Cian, and Dafydd. Crazy Welsh!) put on some huge lizard-like mask and sang out of it. Yeah, a bit bizarre...but you had to be there.