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October 27, 2008

Denver/Boulder: Shows this week | 10.27 - 11/2

[Secret Machines]

Something for everyone this week with a bevy of great bands coming through Colorado. Two Wu-Tang alums, a boatload of Halloween shows (Girl Talk should be off the chain), and TV On the Radio closing out the weekend, but first - Secret Machines and their famed light show tonight!

The Machines' stage setup was helmed by noted light artist and set designer Es Devlin, who had previously plotted Kanye West's stage for his "Touch the Sky" tour, Sally Potter's film version of "Carmen" and Philip Glass' opera "Orphee." As it turns out, she's a Secret Machines fan and was happy to work with the band's admittedly skimpy budget.

"I'd seen a set that she did for Wire at the Barbican, and was just like, 'Screw it, I'm going to e-mail her,'" said singer-bassist Brandon Curtis. "Rock bands are victims of their technology, and I really liked how she could re-frame to concept of a rock band."

In a statement, Devlin laid out the lighting specs as such:

The visual elements are a direct instinctive response to the qualities of the music. The band will be caught within a Naum Gabo-inspired romboid structure surfaced with gauze and punctuated with radiating tensioned cables which will catch the light in a more lyrical way than a pure saturated block of back light -- we might combine them and counterpoint them with pure blocks of back light too.

Which, in short, means it's probably going to absolutely fry your brain's pleasure centers. (via)

Monday, October 27
The Secret Machines/The Dears @ Bluebird Theater
Pierced Arrows @ Larimer Lounge
Jason Mraz @ Fillmore Auditorium
Missy Higgins @ Fox Theatre
Parts & Labor @ Hi-Dive
Terry Tempest Williams @ Boulder Theater
Ray Lamontagne @ Macky Auditorium

Tuesday, October 28
MSTRKRFT @ Ogden Theater
Torche @ Larimer Lounge
The Acorn/Shaky Hands @ Hi-Dive
The Felice Brothers @ Fox Theatre
Kids Like Us @ Marquis Theater
Missy Higgins/Joshua Radin @ Bluebird Theater

Wednesday, October 29
Method Man/Redman/Termanology @ Ogden Theater
Infected Mushroom @ Fox Theatre
David Sedaris @ Macky Auditorium
Motion Sickness @ Larimer Lounge
Devotchka @ Armstrong Hall (Colorado Springs)
Kamelot @ Bluebird Theater

Thursday, October 30
Jaguares @ Ogden Theater
Workhorse @ Larimer Lounge
Leftover Salmon @ Fillmore Auditorium
The Motet @ Fox Theatre
BigTime Entertainment Show @ Hi-Dive
Unroyal Blood @ Marquis Theater
The Faint @ Boulder Theater
Foma* @ Bluebird Theater
Jedi Mind Tricks @ Gothic Theatre
Experience Hendrix @ Paramount Theatre

Friday, October 31
Girl Talk @ Ogden Theater
Widowers @ Larimer Lounge
Leftover Salmon @ Fillmore Auditorium
Jedi Mind Tricks @ Fox Theatre
Monofog w/Hearts of Palm @ Hi-Dive
DeVotchKa @ Boulder Theater
Fear Before @ Marquis Theater
Electric Six @ Bluebird Theater
3OH!3 @ Gothic Theatre
ZZ Top @ Paramount Theatre
Ghostface Killah @ Vinyl
The Photo Atlas @ Walnut Room

Saturday, November 1
Eoto @ Ogden Theater
Joshua Novak w/Raining & Ok @ Larimer Lounge
Ozomatli @ Fox Theatre
d. biddle @ Hi-Dive
DeVotchKa @ Boulder Theater
Blackest of the Black Tour - Danzig @ Fillmore Auditorium
3OH!3 @ Gothic Theatre
Coles Whalen @ Walnut Room

Sunday, November 2
TV On The Radio/The Dirtbombs @ Ogden Theater
Ozomatli @ Fox Theatre
Copeland @ Marquis Theater
Saving Abel @ Bluebird Theater
BigTime Entertainment Show @ Hi-Dive
Grand Buffet @ Larimer Lounge
Ozomatli @ Fox Theatre
Savanna @ Soiled Dove

Schedule appears courtesy of Mystik Spiral.

Posted by Merry Swankster at October 27, 2008 11:45 AM

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