Who says you cant rock on a Wednesday? The Medium Mood kick off their tour at Gingers Tavern on March 5 (with Play Guitar and The Establishment). Heading to Quebec and Ontario afterward, Andrew Gordon (bass, vocals) hopes to leave ears bleeding. A larger tour follows this summer (Germany and US, holla). Gordon, Adam Hartling (drums) and Chad Peck (guitar, vocals) are bringing a camcorder with them. Hopefully, a short tour doc should be available for streaming or download off the Noyes Records website shortly after, says Gordon. Besides the tour movie, he adds, fresh approaches to noisy post-punk are forthcoming.
Its pretty hard to do things that havent been done before…without getting too gimmicky, but weve made some attempts (an organist, surround sound, seamless sets, re-imaginations of songs as different genres, experimental/avant-garde layering, samples) and now were talking about getting into some computer-based manipulation of our performance, reveals Gordon. Hopefully people can come away from our show with ideas. Plus, our new shirts are ballin, so maybe people could actually leave our show with some style. Sheesh. Are you going to let him insult you like that? Of course youre not.
This article appears in Feb 28 – Mar 5, 2008.
