(photo courtesy of nbnsummit)
Me and my gal pals were real jet setters on Thursday night, starting things off with a little trip to the Gibson Show Room for the Nashville Scene VIP party, where we chowed down on some bbq and slammed some free shots–compliments of Patron, Firefly Vodka, and Fireball Whiskey. We really felt like the Queens of Sheba as we boozed and schmoozed with some of the NBN artists who were going to be playing later, including Fly Golden Eagle, Jordan Caress (of Tristen and Rayland Baxter), The Delta Saints, Frank the Fuck Out, Hollywood Ten, Apache Relay, Megan McCormick, and the Nashville’s Dead dudes.
Next we made our way downtown to Live On the Green, hoping to catch Garrison Starr and Sixpence None the Richer, but arrived just in time to hear Leigh Nash (of Sixpence) singing the last 10 seconds of their final song. What a letdown! So we went with Plan B and mosied on over to Mercy Lounge, where we were pleasantly surprised by Uncle Skeleton.
For those of you who remember Kindercastle before that precious ensemble broke up and went their separate ways, Uncle Skeleton is Kindercastle reincarnated. Uncle Skeleton featured many of the original Kindercastle band members, an almost-full string section, and played that same ELO-inspired, Romantically classical-tinged pop-rock. Most of the songs were instrumental however, which seemed to be the main difference between the new band and the old one. It was still pretty and very nicely arranged and orchestrated, so there should be no complaining.
Finally…the moment we had been waiting for arrived…sort of… We trekked up to 12th and Porter to hear Sarah Silva’s highly-anticipated set, and of course, she blew our brains out with her belting. Everyone was so lost in female-fronted band land by that point, that we even decided to stick around for Like Candy Red, who was kind of like watching the white girl, Nashville, TN version of En Vogue. We think the girls were three sisters, although we didn’t really care, because we were too busy groovin‘ and shakin‘ to their synchronized dance moves and cray cray stacked harmonies and wailin’… Thursday night’s Next Big Nashville lineup was a home run for us.–Erin Manning