Family Time with Hospitality
Family Time / Hospitality
Union Hall 2.24.09
Family Time played the final night of their 3 week Union Hall residency on Tuesday night.
Who's Family Time?
"A group of producers and musicians dedicated to creating awesome material for people to enjoy. They have already finished two works in 2008, the first of which - The Tale of Season 4 and the Oceanic Six- is the first album of the new genre Recap Rock, presenting episode by episode musical recaps of season 4 of Lost, the hit ABC TV program. They’ve just posted the recap of the Season 5 premiere. The second Family Time full length is Champollion, a space-opera inspired by the musings of Carl Sagan that tells the story of the telepathic night watchman on a spacecraft who becomes a principle figure in future mythology. They performed Champollion as a multi-media ballet with visual projections and a team of dancers from the Mark Morris Group in the 2007 NYC Fringe Festival. They are also the creators of the emmy-nominated Pitchfork TV show Juan’s Basement."
Reads like a gimmick, but sounds pretty awesome. See for yourself.
And while opener Hospitality may not be playing recap rock, they're indie pop is pretty incredible as well. In fact, Stereogum very recently named them "Band to Watch."
Hospitality - "Betty Wang" (MP3)
Hospitality - "Argonauts" (MP3)
Land of the Lost
Once you get started on Lost, you get hooked, addicted, consumed. I was late on the bandwagon, but when I got on, there was no getting off. It’s hard to imagine that it’s already in it’s 5th season, but on Wednesday night at Bell House, a room full of Lost fanatics shared in the joy of celebrating the premier episode of the new season.
To start the celebration off, Previously on Lost—a band whose songs recap past episodes—set the mood, while everyone got loaded up on $1 rum & punch. Their songs weren’t nearly as juvenile as one would expect based on the concept, and were actually rather good, but with anticipation brewing, it was hard not to want their set to end. The 2 hours that followed their set was an incredibly stimulating reminder that there still is some quality TV remaining in this world, beyond all the crap reality-based programming. Sawyer had his shirt off the whole episode, and for every question that was answers, 4 more emerged. It’s going to be a good season.
