Monday, April 11, 2005

This is going to be the first of many weekly news articles I will be writing. There will be no definite structure for this column. The three aspects of Ogden I will be focusing on are local musicians, local music venues, and events. If you have any important information about the music scene in Ogden please email me or Street Magazine. I will be happy to hear what you think of local music and the music related information and articles in Street Magazine. Contact me at streetmag_gal@msn.com.
 For all local musicians, please contact Street Magazine with performance dates so we can list them on our online live music calendar. Also get a band logo to Street Magazine and we will put a link to your bands website on our local band web page.
This last week was packed with bands performing everywhere. On Thursday April 7 Los Angeles based all girl band Raining Jane filled Café MoJo’s to the brim. Raining Jane is a four piece group of talented musicians who have been on tour now for about three months out of their four month tour. Everyone in the group sings and plays more than one instrument, and they seemed to switch up instruments between most songs. They had plenty of personality to spare and had people laughing between songs. I spoke with their drummer Mona after the show and she said that they loved playing at MoJo’s and were surprised at the size of the crowd and the atmosphere of the club. I hope they are able to play here again.

On Friday April 8 I was at the Battle of the Bands at Union Station. This event was a fund raiser for Utah Special Olympics. I heard about his event from Weber State University Radio KWCR. Definitely check out 88.1 local landing show on Wednesday nights from 9 – 12. This is a good way of keeping up with local music. All of the bands in this battle sounded awesome, and I heard every kind of music from classic rock to ska to punk. A few of the bands that really impressed me were The Monikers, Spearit, and Gundhi. SKINT was energetic and stirred the crowd up as always. It was a great time and I enjoyed seeing a lot of kids and teenagers supporting the bands. The winner of this competition was Catalyst, who played last and rocked the crowd. Several of these bands play regularly at Café MoJo’s. 

Saturday April 9 Café MoJo’s was busting at the seams again with Gundhi, Melissa Yearsly and Spearit. Later that night over at Brewski’s A.J. played a spectacular show followed by Gundhi. This was a really busy weekend for Gundhi. That’s it for this week, hopefully next week I will have information about future events rather than past ones.