Last night we went to the Khyber to see Shapes and Sizes.  They are awesome.  From their website:

... their music is ... a tasty mash up. It’s a whale with wings and a tomato that tastes like a strawberry. Shapes and Sizes wrote the melody that apexes in your brain when you were told for the first time that a tomato was really a fruit and that everything you’ve ever believed with certainty was a lie.

They are one of a handful of bands ANYWHERE doing ANYTHING remotely interesting.  I was blown away by their ability to sing/play/perform asynchronously and dissonantly and still keep it all together.  Watching them was like floating in a dream - you are simultaneously engaged *and* hypnotised.

We were happy to see the opening band, Paper Trigger.  Andrew purchased their EP when we checked them out after buying the tickets.  They are a great Philly band.  They had a small, but enthusiastic crowd.

The next band, Yeasayer ... well, let's just say they had a huge enthusiastic crowd.  And, although we were in the crowd, we weren't enthusiastic.

Then, when Shapes and Sizes came on ... it was Andrew and Me and four people behind us.  After their last song, I looked behind us, and we were the only ones in the room. Where did everyone go?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME, PEOPLE?

The saddest part is that the two opening bands each played for an hour.  Shapes and Sizes only played for 30 minutes. I can imagine it's hard to persevere when you're playing to a crowd of 6 (or 2?!), but we really came to see them.  I wish they'd played their full set.