Fat White Family, OBN IIIs & Sunflower Bean played our late Saturday night show @ Baby's (pics)
photos by Amanda Hatfield, words by Pink Baby
Fat White Family / FWF w/ Har Mar / OBN IIIs
If there’s a way to end a five-day music festival, when you’re beyond tired and maybe in a funny mental space, and somehow it’s 2:30 in the morning…it’s seeing Fat White Family. Which is how our 15-hour BV takeover of Baby’s All Right on Saturday of CMJ (10/25 which included a day party and official evening showcase) ended. It didn’t even matter that they had played hours earlier as part of our day show, they brought the insanity all over again. The day show had crazier lights and fog and opened with a psych jam, but this one was definitely more casual and got right into their best songs. The last minute late crowd was understandably not as big as the day crowd (we announced Fat Whites’ 2:30am set after midnight), but almost everyone who was there was going wild, very wild, for the Fat Whites. Beers were flung to and fro, bodies atop the crowd and at least one couple was slow dancing in the middle of all this. The band was going wild too, and as he’s been known to do, frontman Lias Saoudi let it all hang out. (Though one helpful audience member hilariously pulled his briefs back up.) The crowd included J. Spaceman of Spirtualized (who played NYU with the Joshua Light Show earlier in the evening) and Har Mar Superstar who, at one point, joined Fat Whites on stage. They finished their set with a encore reprise of “Touch the Leather” that seemed to rile folks up even more than when they played it maybe 40 minute earlier. All the while, they sounded great while on the knife-edge of completely falling apart. But they never did. One for the books.
Our free, impromptu late night party began around midnight with locals Sunflower Bean who are no strangers to playing Baby’s All Right, and they kicked off the show with a set of psychedelic rock. NPR’s Bob Boilen has since named them one of the top 10 bands he saw at CMJ.
Then came OBN IIIs, one of the artists we were excited to see this year. Orville (who is usually in pure frontman mode) was on guitar for this and their other CMJ shows. He seemed especially ornery that night. We probably all were. It was a weird set.
Pics of our two day shows at Baby’s All Right are HERE and HERE. Saturday night is HERE. More from our late night CMJ capper, including a few that fall into the NSFW category, below…
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2:30 BABIES ALRIGHT. JUST BEEN ASKED TO PLAY. AND WE SAID YES.
— Fat White Family (@FatWhiteFamily) October 26, 2014
BrooklynVegan & @BabysAllRight free late night sow underway. Sunflower Bean on now. OBN IIIs next. Then Fat White Family again!! Free
— BrooklynVegan (@brooklynvegan) October 26, 2014
Sunflower Bean
OBN IIIs
Fat White Family taking the stage @BabysAllRight . Free. Now.
— BrooklynVegan (@brooklynvegan) October 26, 2014
Fat White Family