Setlist

They Make Me Mad
Burning Up
The List
Make It Right
Right & Wrong
You Get Me High
Plastic Army

Los Angeles’ The May Fire (not to be confused with Memphis May Fire) stopped by the 400 Bar in Minneapolis on August 24, 2008.

Opening up were fellow Californians, Astra Heights and Monte Negro (AutoVaughn was also on the bill, but I didn’t see them). It was a low turnout, which is understandable as it’s a lazy Sunday.

I was actually a little surprise to find out that Monte Negro and May Fire both had noticeably Spanish accents, I guess I thought Catty from May Fire was American based on her songs.

It seems that Monte Negro sounds like a Spanish reggae/ska-influenced and the highlight of the show was a cover song (I couldn’t figure out what the song was) with El Pipe from the May Fire.

Andrew reviewed The May Fire’s latest EP on W♥M and I was impress with their sound that I requested to do coverage on this show. They didn’t let me down with rocking out, and there wasn’t a whole lot of talking inbetween the short list of seven songs. All their songs are like short punk songs and the keyboard was used only once by Rob, the bassist (all that setup for a 40 second use!)

There was one moment of awkwardness when they asked someone in the audience if “they were sleeping over at Justin’s mom”.

They are still in Minnesota and will be appearing at Eclipse Records in St Paul, tomorrow. Too bad I won’t be able to make it.

PS, yes, that is a tiger.