Show Review: She's Green, Graham Hunt, Enumclaw at Knitting Factory.
April 27th, 2024
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Last night we were out at Manhattan’s Knitting Factory for some indie steeze featuring She’s Green, Graham Hunt, and Enumclaw. One of our editorial missions is to fold the East and West coast Rock and Roll scenes into each other, like a mobius strip. Cross pollinate. So this show was important to us because Enumclaw had made it out all the way from the Seattle area. Seattle was repping in the audience, too. We saw a Seahawks jacket from the 70’s, Mariners gear, a UW hat, etc. Here’s what shook down.
She’s Green, and they were from Minnesota. This four piece had guitar power. One mainly served as rhythm while another chugged lead lines in the high range. These were thick jams with slow soaring vocal melodies. Our favorite parts came when every member cranked up the gain. It was rock as a spring waterfall, just after the mountain ice melts and the force of the water overwhelms the environment. Their frontwoman’s skirt swayed to the rhythm like it was caught in a breeze. Eventually it became another instrument, emphasizing the flow of their songs.
Graham Hunt was a rocking power trio. Lot’s of attitude behind the melodies and lyrics, with some skillful solos. Several songs were swinging, with the bassist joining in on backing vocals during choruses. There was a spare tire on stage leaning against the bass amp. For good luck? They were doing simple stuff, but doing it well, which ain’t so simple. Some songs changed lanes from rock to punk-rock. Go ahead, drive crazy. If you blow a tire, there’s a spare on stage.
At one point, in the main bar room, a go-go dancer started shaking it on a platform right in front of the front window. Stripped down in a black bikini, swinging to Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life. Lust for life, indeed.
Enumclaw began with a feedback jam, lights all blue. Their first song was the opener of their breakout 2022 album Save The Baby. These songs were like cruising down I-5 on a day when the mountain is out, for those who know what we mean. Some songs had a sandpapery grit in the vocals, something that isn’t in their records and a live feature we thoroughly enjoyed. They played a few new songs as well. “Don’t you, don’t you, don’t you. Don’t you get it? Don’t you, don’t you, don’t you... fucking get it?!”.
Today we woke up, brand new and thankful to have seen these bands put on a show. Get in the loop, connect with them on social media below and catch their next show!
