Last night I went to see The GO! Team (who are freaking rad) and oddly found myself in love with a pair of sisters - the much hailed (in Seattle and recently on NPR) pre-teen, sister duo SMOOSH. They were the opener, and let me just tell you, they are not only the
most adorable girls, they are actually really talented-no bubble gum, Disney packaged music here. Their names are Chloe and Asya...Really?!?!?! Lucky bitches. I think I was 14 when I first heard the name Chloe and I tried, unsuccessfully, to change my name to Chloe (didn't work, my parents told me it wasn't bibllical enough).
Admitedly, it felt really wierd that me, gentleman lover, and a crowd of 20 & 30-something surly Seattlite scenesters were groovin', clappin' and swayin' to 9 and 11 year-old girls playing the drums and keyboard. And the fact that they're cute–and gentleman lover said so–made it all the more uncomfortable. But, be that as it may, I kinda dug them. It was like these girls stumbled over their parents old Natalie Merchant and Tori Amos cd's one Saturday afternoon when they were bored with cartoons and then progressed to Sleater-Kinney and drinking organic energy drinks behind their parents backs and realized they could make music, too. It's kinda like what would happen if Peanut, Junebug and FooJingles (children of the greatest bloggers) met up in 10 years and decided to form a band. What's to become of the music scene? The Seattle music scene is so jaded that we are turning to pre-teen bands for enlightenment? Yes, tomorrow it will be baby cooing and gaga-ing their way to the top of the indie charts, opening for Death Cab for Cutie.
Just a note, I kept my eye on Smoosh while they were treated to V.I.P. front row space for The Go! Team. Rest assure no evil hipsters No one tried to slip them a roofie or grind up behind them. Girls looked like they were having the time of their lives, being out past 9:30 and all.
Kids today do a lot less drugs and it shows. When I was 9 I was pretending to smoke candy cigarettes at the community pool. These ladies clearly have a bright future in something loads more creative than advertising.
Posted by: ballin' on a budget | October 26, 2005 at 10:34 PM
Anyone that age that has a song called Pygmy Motorcyle is going places.
Posted by: Jaime Schwarz | October 27, 2005 at 12:55 AM
Peanut is showing an early affinity to music. You can tell because her favorite things to chew on are CDs and ipods. But hopefully, she'll take after her mama in the music department. It's a little known fact that my lovely wife, BossLady, used to play the bass in an all-girl punk band.
I'm not positive but I think if Peanut, Junebug and FooMonkey all started a band together, then Peanut would be the "bad one."
Posted by: MetroDad | October 27, 2005 at 07:38 AM
Sarah! Where's your rip into the Harrite Meirs withdrawl?! I don't know how to think until I see you rip her and Bush a new one!
Posted by: Jaime Schwarz | October 27, 2005 at 08:56 AM
Exactly Jamie I can't believe I was on this before Sarah! I was merely trying to seem witty knowing her take would decimate mine humor wise. And why can't I click to hear Smoosh?! Gawd I am so techno retarded!
Posted by: heidi | October 27, 2005 at 12:37 PM
I'm still laughing thinking of isosceles Bergey smoking candy cigarettes at a community pool.
Posted by: RBrown | October 27, 2005 at 02:21 PM
i'm under the thumb of the Ad man...at the mercy of a large cable provider that i'm doing tv spots for working 24-7 only to find out in a matter of days, i'm sure that they are dead in the water. Harriet blog to come soon (even though it's too late, promise to still laugh?)
Posted by: crazyvirgo | October 27, 2005 at 03:19 PM
metro dad, i'm pretty sure that mrs. foojingles would be the bad one in the band. if she's anything like her mother...
Posted by: boyband | October 28, 2005 at 08:04 AM