Last night's show was a good time, no doubt. I feared we wouldn't get it but we just made it, $8 to see this band play in what seems to me a different lower east side than say the one of three years ago. Cake Shop is a small little record shop on Ludlow, they have some kind of coffee bar to the left when you first walk in, and a used vinyl shop in the back. If you hang a left after the coffee bar, you'll find some stairs down to the venue, which is pretty narrowly enclosed. Downstairs there's a bar to the left again, this time its not coffee, and the stage -an unraised little diddy with white christmas lights atop the low celings- is after the bar.
I am a big fan of Mark Robinson from two of the great indie bands of the 90's: Unrest and Air Miami, so without actually hearing and Flin Flon before hand, I knew when I found out last minute about their show that I wanted to go hear them play.
Flin Flon is a three piece band, I thought I read online that they're from Boston, but I heard them say they're from Maryland. The chick bass player is feature in the music heavily, the bass lines are of an Air Miami liking, perhaps even more prominent and catchy. The drummer was great, provided some top-notch indie rock licks. Yet Robinson, inspite his calm stare out to the cake shop crowd, did not overly impress. The music was a bit repetitive (not unlike recent The Fall records) although very catchy and danceable, but I do wish it had been Air Miami or Unrest show. Overall I'm glad I went to see them play and I will buy their album to support teen beat records. They need some Flin Flon mp3's on their flippin' website!
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