I was working this show (bartending), so I only got to pay partial attention a lot of the time; good crowd, though. There was a beer tasting prior to the music and the opening of a month-long art exhibit by local Ben Swift (of The Killigans) for entertainment and those facets definitely helped the draw. There were probably more than 70 people total at any given time.
Volcano Insurance was a jazzy trio with Luke Polipknick kind of orchestrating and a couple friends that come down sometimes from Minneapolis. It’s great to see local younger musicians branch out into genres of music outside of some derivative of rock ‘n’ roll.
Ideal Cleaners was up next, and I thought they were the only other band on the bill as the show had been advertised that. I knew they might play a half hour and it looked like they’d be starting around 10:30, so I wondered what would become of the crowd with a show that’s over at 11 p.m. But singer Dan Jenkins mentioned that after them Bloodcow was going to play. IC rocked it but didn’t play my favorite song off the new album (”Go Go Big Business”) and their set was pretty short.
All I knew about Bloodcow before their set was that they had a penchant for drinking a lot quickly. I remember reading something an Omaha writer wrote about O’Leavers, a small Omaha bar that gives all the bands keg beer for free. Apparently the five (I think) members of Bloodcow drank some 96 beers one night when they played. They drank a lot and quickly this time too, not 96, but probably a six pack a piece in the 90 minutes they were there. Impressive. The music was not my usual fare, but good for what it was, harder, faster, thrashier rock than what we were hearing earlier.
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