peter facinelli: Concert Review and Music Recs For You!

On Thursday night, I went to a concert with not one, but three great bands I love, all for $50! Bargain! In spirit of my love of music recommendations, I thought I'd share it with you. This was my last splurge before the big savings crunch kicks in for my American trip.

Firstly, an up-and-coming kiwi act called Avalanche City. This is basically a few dudes who has had one massive hit that got picked up as a TV campaign theme-tune and are riding the wave. The kind of act that no one knows any songs until they end the set with the one song that we all sang along to.

I'm not a massive 'pop' fan, more into alternative/rock etc, but the really cool thing about Avalanche City was that I LOVED their other songs! I downloaded their debut album yesterday and it's really good. Although their hit is kinda pop-ish, they have a background in heavy rock, aparently, and having known that, I could hear it coming through in the drums and percussion. Worth a listen!

Here's their single. If it's not your cup of tea, keep an eye out for other things they will no doubt release soon.

The next act on stage was Midnight Youth, a young-ish kiwi rock band. Midnight Youth have been around a couple of years and are just getting to the slightly more mature phase. They're about to work on their second album, and if their first, and the two live shows I've seen are anything to go by, it'll be worth it. They're one of those bands that REALLY gets into what they're doing on stage, and their enthusiasm is infectious.

I took this video of one of their biggest hits, All On Our Own. Hope you like it:

And then the main event. Birds of Tokyo are an Aussie band that have been around a few years but that I only heard of with their third album, which is self-titled. Here in NZ they have been most well known on "mainstream" radio for one song, Plans. They are great live, their lead singer is hilarious! He kinda pranced round like a marionette for a while there, I couldn't stop giggling.

But I digress. You know when you get an album off the strength of one song, and then discover that so many other songs are amazeballs, too? That totally happened with this album! I love loads of their songs so have chosen a couple to share with you:

The Gap - this is a video I took the other night: