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Strut, Corleone & artvandalay at Wall Street Murfreesboro TN

Friday night in Murfreesboro continued the Strut and artvandalay party started last week at the World Grotto. The line-up also included the hometown favorites Corleone, a five piece with elements of reggae, hip-hop
and trance.

Next time you're in Murfreesboro check out Wall Street, which is
comparable to Patrick Sullivan's, with a restaurant on the bottom floor and
the concert venue upstairs. We (artvandalay) took the stage first at something
like 10:30 and there were a good fifty or so people in the room. We played a solid
hour set (which is like 15 minutes stage time). The lights were so blinding that
all I could see was a cluster of dancers in front of the stage, but when the
set ended and those horrible things stopped burning my retinas, I squinted
through the smoke to find that the crowd had filled into a solid block from
the stage to the back wall - which was totally awesome except for one thing:
like Patrick Sullivan's the back of the stage is the back of the building so you
have to load out of the front, and with three bands we had to haul ass on the
change-over.

Luckily the crowd was full of characters willing to help. In fact, a highly intoxicated guy who called himself Mouse tried to part the seas like Moses for our drummer Chris Peck. We turned over fast and Corleone got the crowd going with some dub reggae grooves. They played an energetic yet short set and turned the stage over to the main event, Asheville's Strut. Regrettably, at that point it was about 2 a.m. Knoxville time, and I had to consider the drive home. I only stayed for about thirty minutes of Strut but man did they shake the place. And I mean literally, the building's not so good and you could feel the floor buckle to the beat as over 200 kids danced in the sea of smoke and laser lights.

Damn that was a fun show.

Thanks to artvandalay for sharing Dustin with us!