Caught the Year of the Rabbit show at the Pound in San Francisco. It was a few nights ago, but I am going back in time with the magic of web posting to give a quick review of what I thought of the show and the band.

First off, the Pound is an interesting venue -- to say the least. It is off the beaten path in SF, near what seems to be an industrial section near water. The setup is alright, although, to be safe, I'd stay far away from the kitchen and/or consumption of the food offered for sale there. Paul's previous band, The Poison Apples, played the same venue a few years back. Place hasn't changed at all.

The opening bands, who I cannot name off hand (and it isn't worth my time to even bother looking up their names), were just not worth seeing. I hear a lot of the people just waited outside, but I sat it out though and listened through every set. Year of the Rabbit (YOTR) finally came on stage and definitely showed their higher level of skill. Ken Andrews, of Failure fame, was really great -- even though Paul mentioned to me later that Ken had a really bad cold and was really low on energy the whole night. Speaking of Paul, he spent about 99% of our time there backstage and we hardly ever saw him. Nothing wrong with getting some quality time in with Ken Andrews and the gang, I say.

I can't wait for Analogue to start hitting tour dates, so I can catch some shows like this one. YOTR is great and all... but I'd much rather see Analogue live, personally. The new Analogue website should be up and running within the next couple weeks; I have the pleasure of working on part of it and am looking forward to seeing it in action when the new Analogue EP is released.