First Night brings music for all ages
New Year’s Eve used to suck for law-abiding teenagers.
While parents and barflyish elder siblings partied to forget the previous year, kids had to choose between spending the night TPing houses, creating guerrilla fireworks displays and pounding ill-gotten booze or watching the TV countdown, playing board games and drinking soda pop.
That was before Eleventh Hour came around.
The crazy, all-ages arm of the First Night celebration brings local bands, grub, graffiti and henna body art to the Spokane Convention Center on Saturday night.
And one of the best elements of the show is that once the music’s over, you just walk out the back door and catch the midnight fireworks. Here’s the schedule:
7 p.m.: Brick-heavy guitar rock band Catalyst
8 p.m.: Rap-philosophizer and party rocker Locke
9 p.m.: Pulse-quickening pop-punk trio Derby
10 p.m.: Ska-soaked Spokane staples 10 Minutes Down
11 p.m.: Post-melodic hard-core rockers Coretta Scott
If you still don’t have your First Night admission button, grab one at local Zip Trips, Tidyman’s or Tomlinson Black locations. Buttons are $12 in advance, $14 on the night of the event.
Another kind of A-bomb
Here’s an alternative to First Night: “Brutal pornographic hyperblast death-metal grindcore.”
That’s how Twin Cities’ www.tcMusic.net describes Anal Blast.
If that descriptor leaves you wondering whether to bring your 2-year-old niece to the show, check out this short list of song titles: “Farm Animal Hammer,” “Spraying Blood,” “I Only Hit You Because You’re Pretty When You Cry,” “Beer Bong Enema.”
Yep, that’s pretty much all that’s fit to print.
The 11-year-old Minnesotan metal band will do its best to disgust during The Last Mosh show at Fat Tuesday’s, 109 W. Pacific Ave., on Saturday night at 7.
Local metalheads God Fearing Nation, Rutah, Doomlit Sky, Meralgia (Tri-Cities) and Meenagorp open.
Cover is $8.
New Year’s Eve hoppin’
It’ll be an all-star event at The B-Side on Saturday night at 9:30, with rock heroes The Makers, No-Fi Soul Rebellion and freak showboats Foxxy Moron and the Sexy Revolution ringing in the New Year. Cover to be announced.
The Noted, Logan Heftel, Caleb Roloff and Bridget Vogel launch 2006 with acoustic pop at Rock Coffee, 920 W. First Ave., at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. No cover.
Local spaz-rockers Mistress and the Misters get down at The Avenue, 417 W. Sprague Avenue, on Saturday at 8 p.m. Cover to be announced.
Have a hard-core New Year’s Eve with Takeover – featuring founding Five Foot Thick guitarist George Silva – Claymore and The Belmonts at The Blvd., 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., Saturday at 9 p.m. Cover is $6.