July 02, 2009
by Carl Atiya Swanson,
HowWasTheShow.com | 6/27/09
One of the thrills of live music is the possibility of everything going catastrophically awry; as a culture we are equally engaged by a slow motion car-wreck as a tale of redemption. For Gospel Gossip, headlining the Turf Club Friday night for the release of their
Dreamland EP, things seemed to be headed the way of a collision course crash test. Although everything had gone smoothly for the opening bands, the trio (who had already played an early release show at Carleton College in Northfield) started their set with fan favorite "Sippy Cup" and immediately lost Justin Plank's bass. Later, Ollie Moltaji's tom decided to keel over mid-tune and guitarist/vocalist Sarah Nienaber wound up the show with a torn fingernail and skinned knees.
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Instead of stalling out, though, Plank got a replacement receiver onstage in minutes and got right back to pounding out basslines like they owed him money. Moltaji cast the errant tom a disdainful look and kept frenetic time on snare and hi-hat, eliciting cheers from Black Horse frontman AP Schroder, in town from Brooklyn for the show. With that pulsing back in place Nienaber barely lost composure, even when forced to buy a minute for set up. She yelped and rolled through the vox and guitarlines, completely captivated in the swirl of galactic fuzz and crackling chords. Redemption with that kind of power, that's the live music dreamland.
Photo by Stacy Schwartz
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