Show Review: Encore Bitchfest

A Valentines Eve Music Fest with all female fronted bands!: "Bitchfest"
At Club Encore
Very cool club. State of the art lighting set up. The stage was small but adequate with a sweet sound system. The staff there are layed back, and the owner Scotty is a warm and friendly easy going guy. A person can really relax in this place.
1st up: Struck
Female fronted band, of high caliber musical talent. The guitarist is phenomenal. The singer was great at weaving pieces of her life into the song introductions that really gave the whole performance a special endearing touch. They performed a strong 45 minute set.
2nd: Lust Murder Box
They played a quick 30 minute set of Lust Murder Box hits. Modern Industrial rock at it's finest.
3rd: The Dead Lotus Society
This IS SPARTA!!! Oh wait, no it's not, but its the most awesome female fronted death metal band I have ever had the pleasure of seeing live. Very cool music, very cool singer. She totally owns the stage with her death metal growls and screaming. You need to see this live. Seriously.
4th: One Eyed Doll
(Book release party) This was the main event of the evening, and this is what the majority of the crowd came to see. Apparently they hadn't played since October, due to the lead singer breaking some ribs (during a past performance?). This was about an hour long set of story book sweet songs mixed with absolute metal rage and about 50% of the singer just talking to the audience about everything in her cute maniacal way. She had the audience by the ears and she brilliantly took complete advantage of that. You can't buy this performance on a cd folks. You have to see them live, and be there. Wonderfully twisted.
5th: Lucid Dementia
This was a rough night for the band. One Eyed Doll finished late, and then for some reason once the band set up they were plagued by a horrible buzzing noise that could not be fixed. Various onstage mixing problems followed, and after the first song Nik's bass amp decided to go silent. After much struggling with the sound crew everything got set to a good level, but after two songs the club had to pull the plug to start shutting down. All that being said, this still was not by any means a bad show for Lucid Dementia. The crowd stuck it out, and they were treated to a different kind of show: Lucid Dementia under pressure, which only served to heighten their performance, and give the audience an inside look at what it takes to do what they do. The crowd was great and really into it, and there was obvious tension when the band got cut short, but they loved every second of it.

Lucid Dementia would like to thank their new sound man Tom Prowda for hanging in here, Andrew for doing video for the event, Bill Douglass for helping us schlepp stuff all over downtown, the Encore staff for your friendliness and the Encore soundman for working hard to make things right, and especially all the fans that turned out to support us.