Thee Oh Sees, The Blind Shake, King Gizzard and Walter TV played a free show at McCarren Park during Northside (pics)

June 19, 2014

Thee Oh Sees / Blind Shake / King Gizzard / Walter TV

After the torrential downpours of the night before, Saturday of Northside (6/14) was all blue skies and fluffy little clouds. Folks were out in force that afternoon. Bedford Ave was closed to vehicle traffic, Smorgasburg was packed, and thousands of people turned out for the free McCarren Park concert featuring Thee Oh Sees, The Blind Shake, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, and Walter TV (aka Mac DeMarco’s other band, where he doesn’t sing). This was the NYC debut of the new Oh Sees touring lineup and they definitely seemed to have it together and the crowd (at least in the front third of the space) was going fairly bananas, with rarely a time without at least one body suring the crowd.

With a rock-solid, entertaining undercard, this was a great way to spend a Saturday. Thee Oh Sees got hot and sweaty with a couple hundred fans the next night at DbA. You can catch King Gizzard late night tonight (6/19) at Baby’s All Right as part of their June Summer Fun Residency. More pics from the McCarren show below…

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Walter TV