One of the best things about the holidays is holiday partys and college bowl games. Fortunately there will be no football to distract you from the awesomeness coming to The Emerald tomorrow night.
The Semis seem sort of like the odd band out on this bill, soundwise. I've made a pass through their new cd and it seemed a lot more on the "indie" side of things than the rest of the bill. I've never caught them live but I have heard great things from reliable sources, so I'll be making a point to get there early enough to see their set.
I've caught Nessie 3 or 4 times over the past year or so and they never disappoint. Two things are for sure when you come to a Nessie show @ The Emerald. First, it will be packed. Secondly, it will be loud. In other words, it's pretty awesome.
Have Gun Will Travel has just returned from a successful trip up to Atlanta where they opened up for the Slobberbone reunion show. If you don't know who Slobberbone is then shame on you, but to let you know how big of a deal it is just know that Patterson Hood from the Drive-By Truckers found it worthy of the road trip from Athens. There was also a car load of our own Tampons who made the roady as well (jealous, I am). Anyway, they're not calling this a "cd release" party or anything, but they'll have the new one with them and if you haven't bought it yet you need to be picking that bitch up and Friday night is as good a night as any.
On another note, I don't know if y'all have heard or not, since I've been trying to keep it so quiet, but I recently had some ninebullets.net shirts made and I'm selling them. If any of you local folks want one hit me up (I'll be the dude in the ninebullets.net shirt) and I'll sell you one….and since you actually came out and paid a cover to support local music, I'll sell it to you for a mere 10 dollars. So find me at the show or hit me up on email prior to the show.
See y'all Friday!
This article appears in Dec 9-15, 2009.