It was the oddest night for SO4 and I say that having seen this crew a good number of times during what they meekly admitted to being their decade long existence. Firstly I'd like to air my grievance with the Drake who do next to nothing to promote their shows ahead of time and often leave worthy bands playing to a mostly empty underground. With no openers to kill time the six of them had to make their own introduction. This proved easy for Nik on this evening. Normally a quiet frontman, focused on the vocoding mic, on this evening he gabbed on and on, and even sang into his non-effect microphone. However those in attendance seemed die-hards and hung on his silly words as the banter kept piling on and became a joke in itself. It got to the point where Clint (known as The Kid ten years ago) took over the mic for an awful impression of a rambling story but quickly got cut off.
Anyway..this is supposed to at least resemble a concert review but with no new material the music was what we've come to expect from the live-band producing electronic music with their synths, guitars, bass, vocoder and double drum sets - playing through Bad Choices, Lessons in Disappearing, Dude, Forever Indebted. Before departing for a much-needed pee Nik promised to come back and play another song for us but in the meantime a couple members remained onstage and plotted a duet that was quashed by the end of the urination. A quick round of the beloved "Jaycie, fucking Jaycie" before they ripped through an encore that aptly wrapped with In the End and the dancers on the floor got one more chance to wile out.
