{"id":643,"date":"2008-09-26T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T16:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/?p=643"},"modified":"2008-09-26T10:18:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T16:18:38","slug":"dead-confederate-lives-on-at-bottletree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/2008\/09\/26\/dead-confederate-lives-on-at-bottletree\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Confederate lives on at Bottletree"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dead<\/a>

Dead Confederate performs live \/ George Atkinson<\/p><\/div>\n

If you\u00a0weren’t at Bottletree last night for\u00a0the Dead Confederate<\/strong><\/a>\/Wax Fang<\/strong><\/a>\/Twin Tigers<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0show, you missed one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

Any show that starts off with a girl\u00a0wearing a Guitar Hero-esque haircut playing bass in a band that’s covering The Cure’s “A Forest” and ends with the headlining band playing in shadows reminiscent of\u00a0 the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” video is a mighty fine night indeed!<\/p>\n

More photos and glorious details after the jump.<\/p>\n

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\"Twin<\/a>

Twin Tigers\/ George Atkinson<\/p><\/div>\n

The night began with the opening band, Twin Tigers, reminding me so much of the music of my tapedeck teenagehood that I swept in from the sideroom in dismay. The noise factor was definite but, sound issues aside, this band was great!<\/p>\n

Derivative of Joy Division, but with\u00a0uptempo, garage like charm that can only be from Athens, Georgia. Distortion and atmospherics abounded and I whispered to my photographer, “This is my kind of music.”<\/p>\n

\"Wax<\/a>

Wax Fang\/ George Atkinson<\/p><\/div>\n

That’s when Wax Fang took the stage. Whoever booked this show\/exact touring line-up was a GENIUS. I’m talking iTunes 8.0 type brilliant matching. I’d heard from a\u00a0few people about Wax Fang’s often drawing comparison to My Morning Jacket<\/strong>. I was surprised. I found myself thinking that these guys are what I wished Kings of Leon<\/a><\/strong> would’ve become on their new album. They were catchy, raw, with a unified soun, not to mention prone to using some great seemingly non-musical instruments to achieve their sound live. I think George and I both fell for this band from Louisville, KY\u00a0– along with the entire crowd at Bottletree that night.<\/p>\n

\"DEAD<\/a>

Dead Confederate\/ George Atkinson<\/p><\/div>\n

As the crowd continued to grow as the night wore on, I stopped and did a little sociological theorizing to pass time between bands. I noticed buttoned-up college guys, moms with their sons who drove in for the show, the usual Bottletree suspects and finally, older professional types who all showed equal anticipation for the night’s headliner: Dead Confederate<\/strong>. The band began to play the first song and it was readily apparent that this was a rare moment in Birmingham music history. The music that I personally like had gained universal appeal across the broad spectrum of our city. Never in a million years did I think that a band fronted by a shaggy, wiry frontman droning along to\u00a0the grunge of my childhood would be loved by almost every archetype of people we go to school and work with everyday. I loved it.<\/p>\n

I can thank Dead Confederate for a heightened sense of hope for the music Bottletree brings to our city.<\/p>\n

Andr\u00e9\u00a0reviewed their\u00a0LP Wrecking Ball a few days back<\/a>, so if you missed it live you can find out where to pick up their album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>

If you\u00a0weren’t at Bottletree last night for\u00a0the Dead Confederate\/Wax Fang\/Twin Tigers\u00a0show, you missed one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Any show that starts off with a girl\u00a0wearing a Guitar Hero-esque haircut playing bass in a band that’s covering … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[83,1021,1026,200,308,1042,922,953],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-al","tag-alabama","tag-birmingham","tag-bottletree","tag-dead-confederate","tag-music","tag-twin-tigers","tag-wax-fang"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4PdO-an","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bhamterminal.com\/timetable\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}