Awww… an interview with some of my favorite people, The Nervous Ticks.

27 Aug 2012: Nervous Ticks performing “Scum” at Strange Matter, RVA

I’ve had this song stuck in my head since Monday.

27 Aug 2012: Nervous Ticks performing Angry Samoans’ “Steak Knife” at Strange Matter, RVA

27 Aug 2012: Nervous Ticks performing “Count Grishnackh” at Strange Matter, RVA.  

I love the energy in this series of videos I recorded the other day.

Nervous Ticks at Strange Matter, 23 June 2012.  

Kyle (also of Navi and newly of the Eurotics) is drumming this time around.  I wish everyone’s vocals had been a little louder this time around.  But at least the drums stayed in place for this song!

Nervous Ticks
Summer Solstice Power Jam 3, 16 June 2012

video by Silver Persinger

Nervous Ticks - “Trash Talk”

Summer Solstice Power Jam 3, 16 June 2012

Here’s the one song I recorded while wondering when the cops were going to come in and shut everything down.

16 May 2012 - Hot Dolphin, Nervous Ticks, Guitar As Spacecar, and Boney Loner 
Nile, RVA 

This was quite an eventful show! One of my friends headed out of town and forgot they had a gig that night. Another one of my friends accidentally kicked me in the head.  And more new friends were made. Good times!

Once again, I’ve used Instagram to brighten up the photos.  I really didn’t think I’d get any usable images at the time, so the fact that I got ANYTHING is impressive.  

28 April 2012 - Nervous Ticks perform “Mindless Rev” and “Rat Brat” at Strange Matter.

Because the floor lighting is so much darker than the stage lighting, I had a hard time seeing everyone in my screen.  I was also close enough that I knew I couldn’t FIT them all in the screen at once.  And I couldn’t really SEE what I was recording, except for Noell since the drums were pretty well lit.  I knew I could probably see Liza when the drums were to the right of the frame, so I panned back and forth to try to get everybody.  It took me a while to figure out that the light in the doorway was just past Chaz’s head, so if I could get that light in the frame, I was probably picking up Chaz as well. (Although he was still mostly in darkness, and I did cut his head off a few times. Sorry, Chaz.)

28 April 2012 - Mutwawa, Mutant Genes, Roman Gabriel Todd & the Nervous Ticks at Strange Matter

Same day!  Different show!  After seeing the bands I wanted to outside at the Shadrock Festival, I headed indoors to Strange Matter so see EVEN MORE music.  I didn’t get any pics of Mutwawa this time, but captured everybody else.  Most folks played from the floor, so the lighting was kinda dark, but I still think the pics turned out pretty interesting.  It’s all about the documentation, because I’m just a historian at heart.