Dosh
I went to this show this last last Friday, the sixth. It was a frigid, rainy night, and as a result the place was dead. That kind of sucks for the people playing but it was nice as an audience member. The photo above was taken by me at the show and really demonstrates how close I, and much of the audience, were standing to Dosh throughout his entire set. He played on the floor right in front of the sound booth, which was interesting, and handled his own levels. The sound guy covered up his board and was just watching Dosh in awe, as we all were. He was amazing—playing drums and keyboard at the same time, looping, mixing, creating gorgeous layered vocals, playing the exposed circuitry of his electric piano with drumsticks like it was a xylophone. After his set, he ended up standing next to me at the bar and I talked to him for a bit. Guy turned out to be just a friendly as he is talented.
For anyone unfamiliar, here's Dosh at work:
I should also add that Dosh wasn't even the headliner for this show,
Matthew E. White was. He was decent and played a kind of indie version of 60s rock/soul. I wasn't overly excited by the music but his band was very tight. They also served as the backing band for the first opener,
Howard Ivans, who frankly was a little on the dull side, but again had a nice tight backing band.