Bushwick

Last Friday I headed to Bushwick, the shadiest part of Brooklyn yet to see a show by Red Dwarf. The venue was something resembling a mall crossed with a squat-joint. It goes by the name of "the Loom" and they are having shows or happenings every first Friday of the month.
I do not know how many shows Red Dwarf has played before but my guess is none at all. Their biggest problem this night was the room that they played in, next to that I would mention the sound system before getting to the music. The room, sound system and rigging made it impossible to hear the vocals of the three singers who all shared one microphone. I guess that kind of illustrates the problem somewhat, could you also see how the mic hung limp from it´s stand that would be an even more telling picture for a band playing "dick-wave".
The whole ensemble was loud though: the rest of the evening I felt sorry for not finding my earplugs and the next morning my exposed ear still had a bit of tinnitus wave in the distance. Good or bad, well it depends on what you set out to accomplish.
I like the performance in that the guys had energy, the talking in breaks was less interesting, for one we learned that the base player lead a busy life running between concerts, his own and other peoples.
Any way now I am doing the same disfavour to you, let me instead tell you about dick-wave: It is pretty much like FM rock, but add some small harmonies sounding like 8-bit console games played out on guitar, quite fast. Apparently one of the singing guitarist made the word up but when I later talked to a friend working in the music industry she related it to some musician that she knows... might all have been a misunderstanding. I will go on believing that Red Dwarf play FM or Collage Rock. They certainly looked the part.
I would see Red Dwarf again, I would bring earplugs and hope for a better place to play so I could hear a few words from songs about if I understood it correctly "giving head at truck stops". Sounds interesting, Turbonegro might have done a song about that, only they did not, but they could have. That is reason enough to listen.

Hey Bushwick, you shady hoe, you!