MOTORCITYBLOG was on the Press List for the show and had 2 photographers and a reviewer onsite to do our thing...these shots are from Paul Hitz with more on the way from Amy Palomar and Jeff Nolan with a review of the show soon.
We were at the MS today and spoke with The Kills for a bit about the show last night but they didnt want to be interviewed on video - "a bit early for that" at 3pm
The Kills@ The Magic Stick
May 7th 2008
MCB Contributor Jeff Nolan
The Kills were very loud. They were pretty much deafening. For two small and quiet looking people they are pretty ominous and menacing onstage. After seeing they industrial-bluesy-eurotrash set it wouldn`t be a far stretch to see the Kills as the fascist dictators of somebackwards little country in Eastern Europe. Maybe not though. The stage was minimally decorated with giant white sheets that hungall around back and sides of the stage. On the sheets were projected alternating video clips of old bands (I think I saw Sid & Nancy, theRamones, and Talking Heads...) as well as an epileptic light show to keep the kids on the floor twitching.
There was a large turnout of enthusiastic, well-dressed hipsters aswell as more than a few fine-looking ladies. The dance floor waspacked near to capacity with people of all types. At one point I was given a beer by a girl because it was as she described it ˘too foamy˘so thanks to you. Walking through the crowd now with my free beer andpad of paper I made several observations, few of which I can recall now to include because around this time I lost my pen. For an encore they chose a Captain Beefheart track from Safe As Milk that was much appreciated by yours truly. Coincidentally the MotorCityBlog Crew ran into the Kills the next afternoon while we waited to interview the Black Kids and Cut Copy. Unfortunately they seemed a little too partied out for much conversation. The Kills were definitely a top notch act.