Photographer: Per Heimlywell, it was back to fillmore, weekend business as usual. sitting upstairs during the opening bands, hearing a man who dreams of being tom waits, sipping and gritting my teeth through red bull and vodka...the week's sleep was so inconsistent, what with 65 reports on how 14 year olds are handling creative short stories, coping with realities of apartheid after reading Kaffir Boy by Mathabane, and watching that beauty-of-a-documentary "Amandla!"... bitterness and the tart of the red bull and shelf vodka was necessary, although i quickly bolted on some fat tire.so, down to the floor we went where etienne de rocher was in the speakers, and then "cutter" was playing and i was mouthing the words, looking around at the almost empty fillmore, searching for someone else mouthing the words, and i found one cute girl, who ended up boogying next to us during last night's SICK sondre lerche show. he's back, people, and his sound with the Faces Down band is so tight. they are a practiced band, and it shows. sondre lerche has a vibrating hand on the guitar, and an inspiring voice...he has quickly turned into a powerhouse...kato adland is a ham, and leads the band with his punchy, poppy, rock, stiff and goofy, and beefy and soft. morten skage is the power forward bassist and he rides the punk train and gets off with ole ludvig kruger, the adorable tall, blow-your-mind drummer with a drum kit tells you he's going to reach for it...they sound so different from the slim's night a few years back when blake was just an embryo and the crowd was poppy and light...last night their sound was mature, and a little darker, a little more phoenix (same producer), a little housemartins, a little post punk echo & the bunnymen, but at the same time they were so deep in the rock jam groove that i swear they had abandoned everything THEY knew about themselves and reached that surprising place where they can't ever plan to go, all the while, the filllmore was only a quarter filled, and every single last one of us now knows we have witnessed something really, really special. smiling, talented musicians mirroring smiling, desperate daily grind workers just waiting all week for that knee deep groove. much gratitude.
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