Gee Tee/Sick Thoughts/Adhesive @ Home Sweet Home, New York, NY 10/10/24

Ya snooze you lose! Well in this case this is the "new wave" of basement lo-fi punk rock performed in actual basement spaces on the floor. 8pm doors didn't get me to Home Sweet Home until 10pm and Eric was reporting "no guitars" as I left home on the Bushwick/Ridgewood line running late around 8:45. Somehow walking to the J train and taking it 10 stops to Bowery and walking over to Chrystie sucked up over an hour while Sordid were playing.

Are the kids alright? They still play in basements, start a circle pit and chuck beer cans with no fighting and no blood. The Disco Ball hanging on the ceiling of underground bar Home Sweet Home got kicked off but it did not shatter and some kid respectfully put it off to the side. I was wondering if those disco balls got made of shatterable material. Also, between sets the barback methodically swept up the beer cans on the floor that were previously projectiles. Dozens upon dozens. This impacted me greatly since I had my hang spot up against the wall where a beer could be safely hidden from the flailing kids but I was right in front of the recycling trashcan.

My friend Eric was raving about Gee Tee from Gonerfest, his favorite Australian band to play there. A quick scan of Facebook showed not only was Saturday's "official" gig was sold out at my local TV Eye with the other Aussie band RMFC that I went to after Sodom, but people like Gerard Cosloy were posting photos of them so I guess they filtered up to the realm of indie-mainstream-careability. This meant while were were at Duff's the conversation came around to if there were any tickets to the Home Street Home show he told me about last week and he sent me the Sick Thoughts link to the show which I bought at the bar in full on drunken commitment mode. Well, since this gig was on the floor in a bar that I hadn't set foot in for like 8 years (probably a Jonathan Toubin/New York Night Train new years party) there wasn't much visibility. I saw the masked singer but it didn't really matter much because the club had it's dry ice fogger going. Their set was like 5 songs and you get the idea from the single video clip. Gee Tee were done before I had an urge to take another 30 seconds.

Sick Thoughts I thought were the best band of the three I saw. When I drunk-bought the ticket, I just assumed the "Sick Thots" link Eric sent me was some sort of promoter in the world of lo-fi punk complete with a link that took my $15 plus dollar and change tax straight to paypal. But no, I discovered it was the longest running band of the night Sick Thoughts led by Baltimore to New Orleans transplant Drew Owen. The highlight of the night was actually before the gig where I saw a beer can sail across the room and clock the guitarist in the head. He looked pretty pissed about it to the point I thought he might chase down said can chucker and put on a real show. This made me feel I wasn't watching a bunch of soft limpwristed punk rock and set the stage for me to enjoy their set.

Adhesive from Florida were more garage rock oriented. I had to look back at their footage to remember what they sounded like but then I remembered that despite it being a one-beer night for me. Not bad or offensive and they could actually be seen despite playing on the floor.