Grand old time

So here we are at the second Rock'N'Roll pizza Party with headliner Grand Trine. Grand Trine were in town at the start of the year where they played to a pretty packed house and engaged in lots of shirtless crowd-surfing, drumkit demolition and other shenanigans. The railing at Nine kind of counteracts those kinds of shenanigans (and the lighting system is too high to swing from). But the music really packed a punch - I think I may have liked the set more on that level.

Tobias Richman sports some spotlight-defeating shades (a loan from the notorious M. Carruthers, if I recall correctly).



The lowdown view of Tobias, a mostly obscured Rafael Katigbak and Shub Roy.



Shub Roy and his evil mirror-world twin.



At least you can lean on the rail.



A bit less well-suited for sitting on.



Tobias works the crowd.



Double exposure action!



See-through action!



The mirror is growing on me.



Faceoff action!



The view from the other side of the railing.



More Rafael!



Behind the back action!



"I feel the need to do something with this railing ..."



The end!



I bought their excellent new EP; they're performing with Tyvek July 9 (a Friday) ... hmm, maybe they could fit in a show here on the Thursday ...

• Show reminder: Centuries Apart and As You Like Me perform at Mavericks (for nothing, as far as I can tell); upstairs at Cafe DeKcuf you can catch Party at the Moontower, Assemble Me, Patron Saint of Plagues and Jersey and The Skid Kids; Elephant Stone and Ornaments rock Zaphod Beeblebrox; there's improv and acoustic rock at the Elmdale House when Crush Improv shares the stage with Nathan Down.