#1: Swan Island, Last Show
June 12, 2008
Or, The End of a Band, The Beginning of a Blog
Swan Island performing ‘Grey Matter’ at Holocene in Portland, OR, 17 January, 2008.
Hello and welcome to the inaugural post of What Rabbit: a new (somewhat) weekly live music blog focusing on queer and female bands and musicians performing live in my home of Portland, Oregon… and beyond. This first post marks the end of a band that I played guitar in for four years. The song is called ‘Grey Matter.’ Its my favorite Swan Island song, and this was my favorite time playing it. Actually when we played it in Kentucky my mom danced on stage with Brisa, and that was pretty awesome too. But I digress. Keep your eyes on Brisa, she busts out some serious moves on this one.
I hope you like it, and keep checking back as I will have a new song from a different band for you next week.
Cameras: Moira Morel & Erica Brown
Editing: Aubree Bernier-Clarke
Thanks to Lance for loaning us the gear.
Watch this video in really big HD here, courtesy of Vimeo.
If you want to embed this video, do it here. (Embedding from the above file will give you an ugly stretched aspect ratio! Thanks a lot, WP.)
Listen to more Swan Island songs: myspace.com/swanisland
You can purchase Swan Island’s album ‘The Centre Will Hold’ here.
Brisa’s dress was designed by Luxury Jones.
Wow! The video quality is awesome! And of course you guys are so handsome! congrats on the new blog. XO Ruthie
um, did I leave out the music quality…duh! X
Did wordpress come out with a new video player? What was your letterbox fix? Daddy wants to know.