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Limbeck
The Annuals
The Yearbook
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Lo-Fi Cafe
Salt Lake City, UT
11/05/2005
By: Meagan Rockne
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The best way to describe seeing Limbeck is like visiting old
friends. You may not talk to them everyday or even every
month, but when you do, it is as if you've never been apart.
Fortunately, the bands that play with Limbeck also bring
about that same BFF energy. It was like a night spent with
your best friends from high school, assuming you have been
out of high school for some time.
Doing the opening honors were Utah locals, The Yearbook.
Their brand of pop rock will get the unknowledgeable listener
dancing, but that's only if you don't watch the band. This was
my third time seeing The Yearbook play and I was still bored
by their performance. The music isn't bad - typical radio-
friendly pop rock - but the band has no stage presence or
charisma.
Following the Yearbook was another local band, The Annuals.
Their first song was slow, unassuming and had me fearful
that we were in for a night a boring opening acts.
Fortunately, that all flipped around by their second song.
With their raucous, poetic, alt-country, the Annuals added
some much needed energy to the room. They may not have
had the room dancing, but they definitely had their attention.
Their high-energy set culminated in an almost impromptu
instrumental song, at which point the audience was witness
to the personalities of the band and the fact that they
legitimately enjoy playing.
Limbeck definitely fed off the energy generated by The
Annuals. They played a few old songs and a few new songs
and took time to reply to shout out requests. The band
definitely has a very informal stage presence. It doesn't
matter if you don't personally know the band, you feel as
though you do. They enjoy being on stage, they enjoy
playing and they enjoy telling stories about camping in the
van at the Grand Canyon, being almost "killedses" by
"elkses, mooses and deerses." They are one of the few
bands that can talk on stage and not be annoying. It is this
informality that makes their alt-country, pop rock so much
fun to be witness to and listen to at home.
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