Live Review: Say Hi (To Your Mom) at Knitting Factory [08.09.07]

I lucked into a show last night at the Knitting Factory with Say Hi (To Your Mom). It was also live-band karaoke at the Tap Bar, which proved a fun entertainment between bands. Say Hi was pretty great. It is unfortunate, though, that their last album, Impeccable Blahs, was all about vampires. I love that album and have a great time singing along to it, but their other songs just didn’t have the same pull for me. So while I really enjoyed seeing the band live for the first time, it was bittersweet because I wanted to sing about drinking blood! (My friend says this betrays my true violent nature – music about vampires makes me happy.)

Anyway, I’ll have to spend some more time listening to their other music because I think the songwriting was effective, but there was something simpler and “prettier” about the overall sound of the songs from Impeccable Blahs. As a live performance, the show was good, and their only additional effect was a warm rosy light that nicely complemented the easygoing nature of their music.

The Benzos were great, filling the entire main room and most of the front bar and hallway with cloudy mist at the beginning of their set and playing a set of decently emo songs accompanied by lots of multicolored flashy lights.

Live-band karaoke is fun!

PS: In future, the band will be known as simply, “Say Hi.”