podling | Hothouse Flowers

Right. So on Friday

astrophysicat & I went to see Hothouse Flowers in Philly at this cool bar called the Northstar (Incidentally, they had a poster from Fist of the Northstar up, which I found really funny). The doorman was reading the novelization of Buckaroo Banzai. I knew this was going to be a good night.

Anyway, so I wanted to see them, I've heard the lead singer on a cd called 'Bootleg' by ALT, and his voice is even more sexy live, and Croi had told me how much I would enjoy seeing them, and how hot one or two of them were. Even still, I wasn't convinced I'd love it, though I was pretty sure I'd be more or less happy with it.

So. So we went. We saw. Colin Devlin opened for them, and he was utterly fab. Then they came on and they were so great live it was un-fucking-believable! Songs that I'd only so-so liked on their albums were amazing! Songs that I had already liked were even more amazing! All in all, v. good. Extremely good.

This is the band that one of my old .sig files referred to... "This is the kind of music that you dance to naked with a lover" (paraphrased, I don't remember the exact wording) and that thought struck me during their playing. Damn but they're good. And the people making out next to us, the guy starting to undress the girl, well, that was good too. Hee.