Text & Photos by Diana lee Zadlo
Not a lot of people take Nashville seriously and the heavier of bands end up skipping our little/big town when planning tours. RVA has been good to us, though. Inter Arma has found a love for Nashville, Cough has come to drink and doom here often, and we have been lucky to have Windhand find a home, too, in our dark, welcoming bosom.
On October 2nd, old friends Windhand made a stop at The Owl Farm here in Nashville, a great DIY space on the east side which we are all grateful for. Locals Tijuana Goat Ride, Wood Splitter and Brother Ares joined them as well as a welcome set of visuals created by Dig Deep Light Show that gave the usually sterile, youth group building feel of the Owl Farm a much needed psychedelic draping. This weird little space will always be one of my favorite spots to see and shoot bands. It reminds me of where my camera-as-my-right-hand life started, in the dank tiny back room of Sound Idea in Brandon, FL photographing bands and seeing badasses like MDC, Bread and Water, Vitamin X and Scrotum Grinder.
If I don’t stop typing now I’m sure to ramble on about the free keg of craft brew, the pupusas I made later for my Virginian guests in a whiskey’d stupor or the importance of the heavier side of Nashville bands and how we’re not all just crowd surfing garage rocking music tourists…I’ll end with what my buddy Niki C. from Tijuana Goat Ride said, “Like the teeth of 1000 hounds, Windhand riffed their way into my heart, and peeled the concrete off of a dank DIY strip mall venue next to a church. Should have been there.”
Enjoy and look to Nashville for more to come.
Nov 29 Lawrence, KS Granada Theatre
Dec 02 Winnipeg, MB West End Cultural Center
Dec 04 Edmonton, AB Starlite Room
Dec 05 Calgary, AB Republik
Dec 07 Vancouver, BC Venue Vancouver
Dec 08 Seattle, WA El Corazon
Dec 09 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater
Dec 11 San Francisco, CA Regency Center Grand Ballroom
Dec 12 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre
Dec 14 Albuquerque, NM Moonlight Lounge (WINDHAND ONLY)
frank
October 16, 2013 at 7:33 am
gorgeous photos, man. gotta get to nashville sometime. windhand fuckin slays!