10.24.2006 Mono, Panthers, Coliseum

Mono is one of the reigning kings of post rock. If you're familiar with Explosions in the Sky and you like their soft beautiful passages but you wish songs like 'A Poor Man's Memory' was heavier, than you'll love Mono. Then again, if you're familiar with Post Rock, you already know this.

Up first was Coliseum. They have a hardcore/stoner rock sound to them. They actually sort of remind me of Clouds who I saw a few months back. They're a three piece with a lot of energy and pretty entertaining live.

Panther's bassist looks a lot like Jack Osbourne, before he found adrenaline. Anyways they remind me of the Melvins if they were playing indie rock. Not really my thing. Their guitarist broke the high E string mid set. Wasn't a problem though, because as he was saying to the singer, 'I don't use it'. Ok Max Cavalera.



Mono was pretty much the only reason why I went to the show, and they didn't disappoint. Despite having difficulties setting up, for about 15min, they still managed to pull out a 55 min set, much to the relief of this post rock fan. It was pretty amusing to see the High on Fire fans utterly bored during the slower parts of mono's set, only to have them drop their jaws after things got... noisy ... and then loud and noiser. I think they won over a lot of new fans this night. They finished with a song that I didn't recognize. It had two parts both with airplane take offs (loud crecendos) towards the end of each part.








Setlist
Yearning
Lost Snow
Halycon (Beautiful Days)
New Song

info file

...Yeah 4 songs = ~1hr

links courtesy of archive.org
mp3s also at archive.org


Waking up the next morning at 6am meant me missing High on Fire.

$15/$15