originally posted may 15

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man, last night was sick. all the work we did in preparing some of our rockin material for acoustic guitars really paid off. we played really well. the crowd really dug what we did. it was a great night.

if you’re not sure what the hell i am talking about, my band, the rogue transmission, played an intimate show last night at anar bar on xingfu lu. we billed it as an evening with the rogue transmission. the original idea was to approach like the old MTV unplugged series. so we stripped down our tunes, slowed some of them down a little, some of them a lot, and we gave a few of them a bit of the psychedelic treatment:

apathetic mutation is always a crowd favourite, probably due to its catchy chorus (oooooooooooooooh). we slowed that one down and gave it a little country vibe. wicked devil heart stayed about the same speed but we gave it the old train feel (

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). one of my favourites was firecracker cherrypop. it’s an older number that was starting to lose its lustre. so we gave it the power-ballad treatment and ended up bearing a strange likeness to

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. not bad.

anyway, let’s get on with the pics. ben botiller of the snotrockets and the dropkicks supported us with a ‘folk’ set. i think that means that he played acoustic guitar. he’s really good – i’ve never heard him sing like that before. when he sings in the snots it’s all a lot faster and louder and… less ‘folky’.

we decided to dress nice for the occaision

for our second set we went electric and played a good old fashioned rock set.

the crowd really enjoyed themselves. what’s up, mache!

our pedals always come up good in photos. i’m such a gear-geek. these are dan’s.

and these are mine.

big thanks to dave, estel and roses for taking the photos.