Last Night’s Party:  The Death Set and Team Robespierre

As mentioned earlier in the week, The Death Set and Team Robespierre brought their new brand of electro-punk and colorful garments to The Downtown Event Center last night.  It was an show packed with lots of energy and visual stimuli.

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Raleigh/Greenville band Lonnie Walker opened the show with their blend of rock and folk.  Somewhere between The Walkmen and Bob Dylan, the band ran through about 45 minutes of songs that got the crowd started off on a good note.  Usually during their performances, the band has an artist friend who draws behind them.  Because of the stage set up at Downtown Event Center, the artist was bound to a wall offstage but the art didn’t suffer.  Lonnie Walker played their set on the stage, but Team Robespierre and The Death Set decided to go more punk by playing on the floor in front of the stage.  This allowed the crowd to be more directly involved in the antics and dancing with the band.  There were points were it wasn’t unclear of where the crowd stopped and the band started.  Robespierre stormed through their small catalog of songs, most of which are no longer than 2 minutes but pack in lots of layers of electronic beats, keyboards, drums, guitars, and of course, deafening screams.  The lead singer, who I was told was actually a replacement for the evening, was full of antics, throwing bottles and beer on his band members.  He also climbed on the bar, which set up a precedent that The Death Set greatly exaggerated.  The crowd started the evening off in large numbers but midway through Robespierre’s set and afterwards, the numbers dwindled to less then 20. 

After Team Robespierre, a friend of The Death Set put on various electronic beats and put lyrics to them as entertainment between sets.  One song was a rap version of a Death Set tune and he followed with a crooning version of Morrissey’s Last of the International Playboys, which the remaining crowd members helped sing.  The Death Set broke all rules of where to play guitar, sing and throw their bodies.  The lead singer had on a No Age shirt (a Los Angeles band), signaling a direct parallel to the new trend in electro-punk.  With a smile on his face, a second guitarist behind him and two drummers pounding away at two drum sets, Johnny Siera seemed to enjoy himself throughly during the set.  By jumping on the bar, climbing on top of two stacked stools, and on multiple occasions, standing on the base drums, all rules were off for the remainder of the evening.  Although small, the crowd that remained danced until the last beat.

The Death Set will return to the Triangle on May 10th at Local 506 in support of the recently reshaped Bonde do Role.  Another not to be missed evening.

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