Tonight i went to a show in Rouen with Jen, the assistant in Fécamp, and her friend, Theresa, an assistant in Rouen. Now it's almost 2:00 in the morning, and it was such a good concert i want to tell you about it.
The band we went to see is called Nelson. Not this Nelson, but this Nelson. They are friends of Jen from Paris, and she just realized yesterday that they were playing in Rouen. I listened to a little bit of the songs they have available on their MySpace page, and i thought they sounded a little too much like Joy Division for my taste. I figured it would be fun anyway, what the heck.
Their stage presence was amazing. The show they put on tonight blew away the recordings available, and i am now a Nelson fan. There are four band members: a drummer and three frontmen. The stage is set up with two keyboards (one on each side), two guitars, one bass, and the drumkit. The band members, with the exception of the drummer, rotate between the other five instruments and share singing. For their encore, the drummer came out from the drumkit and played guitar. I have never seen a band do this before. It was so egalitarian yet so good.
I really hope this band makes it. They might have to change their name though.
