Last weekend I went to the Zero 7 concert at the San Diego House of Blues. It friggin’ rocked. I got there early enough that I was one of the first few in, so I got to be right up-front literally touching the stage. They had the speakers up nice and loud so I could feel the music.
Sia, a solo artist who is also one of the featured singers for Zero 7, looked like a cross between Gwen Stefani and Bjork and sang like a mix of Fiona Apple and Imogen Heap, a haunting yet intoxicating voice.
They played a two hour set with a 30-minute opening act from Jose Gonzales (pic below). He has a great voice and is an amazing guitarist, but all his solo songs sounded very similar. He was much better when we accompanied Zero 7 on the songs he had performed from The Garden.
There was an amazing song that they did where they recorded Jose singing a few notes, mixed it, looped it over and over added different reverb and SFX to it, continually adding more instruments until it built to a climax and then transitioned into the next song.
The only thing that kept me from giving this concert a 10/10 was the encore took way to long to get started and they ended with a song that dragged on and lost the energy of the audience.
Check out all my pictures of the concert on my Flickr page.
If you haven’t yet listened to Zero 7, I’d strongly suggest that you check them out.
[tags] Zero 7, concert, San Diego, House of Blues, music [/tags]