Love Affair Records Super Show Recap

   As I write this, the Love Affair Super Show, Summer 2013 edition, is histoire. Man, what an awesome time. For those who weren't there - of which there were many - you missed some good stuff. Oh sure, you'll get a chance to check us all out again. But that was the perfect pill. Now you'll just have to get your Love Affair artists in smaller doses. You can handle it.
   The biggest question of the night was whether Brandon Dooley and the Love Affair Allstars would be able to pull off the epic stage share equipment swaps, and it was answered immediately. The answer was... pretty much.. yes? Skydiver killed it in their very first show ever. Paul May and Brandon were both thrashing in unison, and both on bass guitars at times. Blake once again proved that a layoff from being on the stage was never enough to slow him down, as he grabbed the microphone and ripped it apart... metaphorically of course. Family Robot Seizure Show, as a four piece, proved to be able to bring at least their B game. And finally Iron Eyes got up and brought it back like it was 2001 all over again. In one hour of music, there was a definitive Judge Genius/Nail In The Brain vibe. Like a stroke of a brush, we were all transported on that stage to earlier times. And it was so damn awesome.
   Way High Men took the stage after a quick break, and played an abbreviated set (Adam and Talley had pretty much already logged close to 45 minutes onstage already in the Allstars), but wowed with old songs and at least three new ones. Two Goats And Their Money free form jazzed the crowd, sweeping up experimental tones into their sonic dustbin, and shaking it up. I'd sum it up like this: Guitar synths + lots of pedals + a six string bass + Dan Thompson = me grinning from ear to ear. Finally 99000AD got up and laid down the funky jams. How funky? Well, lets just say this. They remember the set, but some of them kind of blacked out shortly after (We won't say whom). So how funky soul can funk soul get at that point? Pretty funk souly. Let's leave it at that.
   And merch? The Love Affair Records Sign made it's way back to the corner that it graced 10 years ago in the rear of the Spanish Moon. Sure, there were different faces back by the table. There were different items for sale than you'd seen there a decade before. There were a lot of familiar faces, and a few faces we missed dearly. Thanks so very much to all of you who were there. It really meant the world to us. And to those who bought shirts, CD's, stickers, or even erroneously bought those copies of Dig Magazine we'd put back there, you're forever in our hearts. We'll keep you posted on the next one. Till then, go brush up on some of our music (on the music page!) or go listen to our podcast. And God bless your little soul.