DIIV at House of Vans

pics: DIIV, BADBADNOTGOOD, Sunflower Bean @ House of Vans during Northside

photos by Mimi Hong

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The drum, bass, and guitars all were slung into action in a mesh of intermingled shoegaze riffs and deep buzzing bass that were thrust before the swaying fans. DIIV played through fan favorites such as “How Long Have You Known?” off of their earlier album Oshin and ran through new hits like “Under The Sun”, and the slow burner “Bent”.

Eventually, the frontman unstrapped his guitar between two songs and asked for a skateboard. “I’m not playing until I do a triple flip!” Smith shouted into the microphone. The audience began to search. People turned to the stands, and then to the bouncers and merch table, moving, weaving, attempting to find a skateboard. Zach pressed the microphone close with a grin. “I can’t do a triple flip!” The audience erupted in relief and laughter. – [Bands In Town]

Northside and House of Vans collided with a collaborative show Thursday, June 9 featuring former tourmates DIIV and Sunflower Bean with Canadian jazz / hip hop outfit BADBADNOTGOOD sandwiched in between. Pics from the whole night are in this post.

While BBNG’s forthcoming album is loaded with guests like Future Islands’ Sam T. Herring, Colin Stetson, Kaytranada and more, the band played it alone at HoV, though they did work in a Flying Lotus cover. You can catch them again later this summer when they open for Herbie Hancock at Prospect Park on August 11 (tickets), which is one of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival benefit shows.

Sunflower Bean, meanwhile, will play Bowery Ballroom on October 7 and tickets for that show go on AmEx presale today (6/15) at noon.

More pictures from the House of Vans Northside show are below.

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