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Test Patterns 7
» With Gutsies (R.I.P.), Love Like Deloreans, Bosco Delrey, and Dream Diary
Text by Impose Automaton
Posted on August 24, 2009
On Thursday, August 20, our seventh Test Patterns party went down at Don Pedro. We called it the "dreamy edition" last week, and it pretty much was all our fantasies incarnate.
It was also in all likelihood the last show our beloved Gutsies will ever play. If you caught the shambolic performance, count yourself one of the few.
Love Like Deloreans perform with seven keyboards for three people, and while their future synth music might bear some similarities to bedroom contemporaries, their live show is so spot on it recalls an ecstatically optimistic Cluster with dashes of Kraftwerk and videogame music sans the 8-bit fetish.
It's been a while since we've caught a band that so giddily mashes up electronic dance with blues the way Bosco Delrey does it. We'd like to say we haven't heard anything quite as ready for massive fanbase in this tradition since Play, but Bosco also tosses in the one-off freestyle jam from 77Klash and the occasional looped-guitar noise freakouts.
When we first asked Dream Diary to play, they were calling themselves Smokey Pines. By Thursday, the band had one other show under their belt, but they already carried the confidence of an old dude band. A skinny, early-twenty something old dude band. If this show was any indication, their spot-on sentimental dweeb rock will attract an army of fans.
Props to Yr Friend Matthew's psych projections gracing the faces and walls of these photographs.
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About Nate Dorr
When Nate Dorr isn't galloping through the boroughs taking photos, he writes about obscure movies in Sunken Cinematheque.
Dream diary was great. I'm now in love with each member, respectively. That two piece group was a little strange, and way too serious. Love Like Deloreans was great but my mind would have been blown open if they had a real drummer. The Gutsies- even for their "farewell" show- were entertaining. I heard the actual drummer spiked the fill-in drummer's drink with L.S.D.
— rainbow phlegm on August 26, 2009
too bad nobody spiked the doorman's beer. he might have been friendlier.
— Serato Man on August 26, 2009
have Gutsies released any formal statement on the break up? I heard the actual drummer was in the crowd drinking.. haha!
— blake on August 25, 2009
I heard a rumor that the door dude is the new owner of Don Pedros, and he was just scoping out the clientele. Can anybody confirm this?
— Shlong Cusack on August 22, 2009
Hola! I am senor Don Pedro. Owner and proprietor of the drinking and eating establishment Don Pedros. I saw the young doorman you at your rock and roll dance party, and I must say that he is the finest door person I have ever seen. Now please excuse me, I must go back to counting all the money I am making off of gringos who come to my bar.
— Don Pedro on August 22, 2009
I believe he is from the west coast, so I am guessing he does
— Aus Rotman on August 21, 2009
considering he probably got about 10 people claiming to be the owner of Don Pedros to avoid paying a $5 cover before you came up, you should cut the dude some slack.....but if he called you a fag or something like that, than yes he's a dickhead.
— ka on August 21, 2009
The guy working the door was such a dickhead!
— J/S on August 21, 2009
I thought he was pretty hot, and wanted to see if he knew the recipe for spicy tamales
— Curious man friend on August 21, 2009