Spring Time Shows

The newest on the music scene has been a few shows over the last couple weekends. Wisebird out of Austin and The Naked Eyes from Ogden had one of their best shows ever downtown last weekend.

As the night drew near and very few people were setting up at an underground event center in downtown Salt Lake City, I was surprised to see that Wisebird was already sound checking almost three hours early. With the time being almost 7:00 pm I had stopped by to see what the situation was looking like. It was good to see the Desert Rocks crew together to setup a much smaller production that I knew was also going to be recorded and broadcast.

The fans and supporters started arriving at about 9:30 to see their local heroes come back home from Austin, Texas to play a show with Ogden’s original The Naked Eyes who have recently moved to Salt Lake City. As the small venue filled with people the music was beginning to pick up with Brian Thunder taking the stage for a solo performance as a singer songwriter. The end of Brian Thunders set was a good transition to let The Naked Eyes takeover for the next hour or so.

By the time The Naked Eyes finished their set the room was not only full of people, but almost half of them were dancing to the local indie rock. Now the event really seemed to be going off with everyone having a good time and good music being played. The Naked Eyes play some unique music with some new age sound mixed with an old school tone and interesting noises. Once they were done with their set it was almost midnight so Wisebird still had about two hours to play.

When Wisebird got their started the crowd was nice and ready to hear the band that started off in Salt Lake City and Moved to Austin. It has been a few months since they have played their home town and it was Will Webster’s birthday who is their guitarist. With Wisebird happy to be home and the crowd happy to see them back they played one of the best shows the home crowd has seen.

With bands like Wisebird and The Naked Eyes as well as solo artists like Brian Thunder who come from the Salt Lake City and Ogden areas, it makes for a good music scene.