Shout Out the Starlight

Shout Out Out Out Out were back and this time all members were healthy and ready to rock the starlight (unlike the last show there the night after "the kid" drummer had dislocated his shoulder). Complete with the dual-drumset, and high kicks they busted out a fairly typical SO4 set (which is anything but typical for other bands).
The band has notably dropped from four bass guitars to maximum two at times, while putting more emphasis on the keys, and sampler. Most of the setlist consisted of as-of-yet unreleased material from their forthcoming new album that the other drummer told us before the show was complete but had to be mixed. This is probably why the show didn't blow me away - since I was unfamiliar with much of the material, though they do have a fairly standard sound that this album will easily meld into. It was interesting that there is a small portion of a new song that is sung without the vocoder - which I don't think occurred on the previous disks at all. The few old faves were tossed in such as Forever Indebted and Dude You Feel Electrical. As is becoming the norm they closed with recently-released single "In The End It's Your Friends" that also closed last Starlight, and Hillside Inside. However they bungled the big tempo shift that they'd built up for so long when the singer came in without enough warning to the rest of the band to follow his lead. It was a shame to miss an opportunity like that because by this point in the night the club had built to a fever-pitch and if perfectly executed this could have made the floor go crashing down under the sag of all the jumping bodies. Next time Shout out out, next time.

Stereo Image opened and were two guys yelling into their mics to some prerecorded backbeats. Someone aptly described them as a very poor quality Junior Boys.