JULY 19th, 1997
VALETINE 6
& RADIO CAROLINE
21 & Over @ Safari Nite Club
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This was a 21 & over show after an all age show. Valentine is a great band that I kept wondering how I was going to get people in front of. So I had them open for Radio Caroline. Which at the time had one of the biggest draws out of all the local bands.
Valentine 6 is a cross between late Birthday Party and the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds stuff. Dark mournful music with mixes of jazz. Their sound is like murder, ugly and beautiful in it own unchanged surreal way. They sould be doing the sound tracks to David Lynch films. The joy of the evening was watching people slowly move toward the music. Drawn by something deep within. Mission acomplished.
Radio Caroline wrecked all our hearing with their own view of the world. I think this may very well have been their high point. It was one of those nights where either your mood or the band's mood hits a higher point and this was that night for me and them. If they would have broke up that night, they would have lived in the stars. Now it seems they are taken for granted.
