I always have mixed feelings about seeing a great band with an audience of under 100 people. On one hand, it’s like an intimate gathering with like-minded friends. On the other, a definite lack of energy can be reflected by the band.
Luckily for the small crowd at Kansas City’s Recordbar, the North Carolina-based sextet Annuals maintained their intensity and delivered a string set, playing tracks from both of their EPs, 2008’s Such Fun and 2006’s Be He Me.
Jessica Lea Mayfield
The second act of the evening, Jessica Lea Mayfield, did something I’ve never seen before at this venue: use white light. Somehow, Mayfield was able to give us some photo opportunities that we’ve never seen at the Recordbar. We hope other artists will take the time to learn her secrets (turn the red lights off!!!!), because we assume that the artists prefer to have good pictures taken of them over bad ones.
Jessica Lea Mayfield: myspace
