Lately, we’ve been getting a lot of props for our work at Loudvine.com. But what we keep saying to everyone is that we are just as good as all the bands we are meeting and listening to and getting to know. This thing is bigger then us. Amidst the background of a city that is bursting with talent, we realize, our mission at Loudvine.com is really quite simple. Listen. The music will speak for itself. People will come. Get people to know about as many of the shows that we can figure out and let our members know about them. Motivate through great nights in Los Angeles listening to cool music.
Take last night for instance. In what amounts to someone’s living room with a bunch of the coolest, most laid back people you’ll ever meet, you realize that the really talented musicians in Los Angeles have a lot of support. And not just from blogs and sites like Loudvine.com, but by people, a community that comes out and supports its own because the music and people behind the music are charismatic enough to get people all over town to come listen to them when there are a bunch of things going on. But lets face it, people would not come if, in today’s environment, they have not at least heard a few mp3′s and they liked what they heard.
Often, we hear the word “side project,” as if its some bastard, ill-conceived project of someone from another, more popular band. But that is not the case with the side project Very. Brian Cleary set up a lifetime’s worth of equipment and blasted into his past last night doing a solo show for the first time in ten years. Talented, inspired, and definitely on his own this night(without The Movies), a bit tentative at first, Brian turned to his music and took us on a musical journey for a few minutes. The side project is here and all grown up. Bursting at the seams of an experimental and ambient, trilogy-like sound, Very was back doing something truly his own and very unique.
Often the side project shows someone’s range and personal taste, even more personally then you are accustomed to. But lets say this, when you’re playing solo to a full house at the Echo Curio, there is no faking it. You are either good or you are not that good. Brian was good and the perfect reflection to what is happening in Los Angeles. Musicians taking that step, that vulnerability needed to create, passionately, what they have inside and taking us in different directions then what we are accoustmed to. Keep informed as we keep delivering the shows that really matter via Loudvine.com, like last nights show.
