Panther Album Release Show

So Friday night I went to the album release show for Panther and Copy at Holocene, though I'm not entirely sure it was their album release show as it was billed, because this seems to assert they've already had one before-one year ago.
E*Rock, co-founder of Fryk Beat (home to Panther) and Audio Dregs (home to Copy) opened the show. 

He had a mic up there with him, but he barely used it except for one random shout and one song with lyrics which mentioned black and stars.  It rocked.  The rest of his set was sounds from his laptop.  During his set I stood behind a guy that looked like an Iron and Wine rip-off.
Then they showed two Panther videos-one for "How Well Can You Swim?" and a world premiere of another that was Panther alone, seemingly filmed with heat-sensor vision. 
I then went to the bar and ran into Panther aka Charlie.  He has a beard.  And he introduced himself as Charlie.  My reasoning is if you go by a stage name of Panther, why not introduce yourself as such-even in situations completely unrelated to music?  Like say-the grocery store at check out. 
"Hi-I'm Panther."
"Uh, okay.  I didn't ask for your name," would come the scared reply of the cashier.
How awesome would that be!?!
Anyway, he gave me a free drink ticket and after I got my shot, I headed down to the DJ who was spinning between sets playing crappy cool hip hop by girls.  I requested Uffie.
"What?  Coffee?"
"No Uffie-'Ready to Uff', 'Pop the Glock'."  Cue a stranger look than before.
I got a scrap piece of paper and a pen from the bar, wrote down her myspace, and handed it to him then took off to the other room where Panther was beginning.

Even though people were shouting for him to get onstage because not too many could see him performing in the audience, he never really heeded the advice.  He stuck to his script of weird flowing robotical dance moves amid the sounds of his falsetto.  Imagine how scared I was when I sang along to not one, but two of his songs!  I had no idea I spent that much time on his myspace, I had no idea I would admit that :)
He had everyone laughing and cheering.  My camera flash was spazzing out, but I got some good photos anyway that will appear in the next issue of Skyscraper magazine.
Who ever was doing his sound determined his set list.  Panther would ask "What's next?"  Then a song would start playing and he would sing to it.  No one seemed to want it to end.

After a very short change over, Copy came on-with a full beard-very different to the last time I saw him.  His standing on stage with his Keytar revealed that he was in fact the Iron and Wine rip off I was standing behind earlier. :)
I stayed for about half his set-it was good-the front lines of right near the stage knew how to dance.

'How Well Can You Swim?' Panther MP3

And one of an Iron and Wine like Copy:

Comments

[e*rock]

nice pics.