Last night’s Love Is All show at the Bowery Ballroom was great. LIA has a great, infectious energy. Nicholaus Sparding broke a guitar string during the first song. It created an unexpected pause between the first two songs, but I kind of love when bands are forced off of the script. Needless to say, Nicholaus broke another string about twenty minutes later which required him to borrow a guitar. If you have any doubt about the energy Love Is All plays with, count the broken guitar strings.
The band played a few songs from the impending album, A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night, which is rumored to be released in the fall. Everyone enjoyed the new songs, but the old songs coaxed people to dance.
Josephine Olausson is an impressive front woman. Last night, she looked a shorter, punkier Parker Posey on stage. She had this great, easy coolness as she worked the crowd. At one point, she even bent over to let some guy in the audience sing the chorus into her microphone. The best shows are always the ones where the band is having as much fun as the audience.
Love Is All covered “I Ran” by Flock of Seagulls which was pretty great live. You can hear a recorded version over at Electrorash.
If you haven’t heard Nine Times that Same Song, you’re missing out.
From Nine Times that Same Song:
“Ageing had Never Been His Friend”
“Spinning and Scratching”
