Fink City here I come: Cryptyds to open for Rempel (and the Rousers, but they're not in her bandname anymore) tonight at Green Auto... plus... pre-teen rock? What?

Jeez, it has been 11 days since I blogged anything. It's like I have a life, or something. But it came to my attention that Cryptyds are playing a gig tonight, opening for Rempel (still with the Rousers, but they're no longer in her bandname. I confess, I have never caught them live before!). This is part of a record launch party for Fink City Records, which I don't know a thing about, but does this mean Cryptyds have vinyl? Ooh.

Anyhoo, I have seen Cryptyds twice, and wrote about them most recently here; I posted vids here, here and here. they have put out a new album since then, which seems to have amped up the Ramones influence a bit. They're really good live! I'm sure Rempel will be great too, I just don't know them (her? The band references Slade, who were a them, so I'm gonna go with them; I realize the Straight, here, would do an "it" but that just feels odd to me). The opening act, Blue Jay Valley, is apparently aged between 10 and 12, which is a bit unusual, but I'm kinda enjoying the song I just linked... check it out?

Actually, if I'm going to call Rempel a them, my verb for Blue Jay Valley should be an "are," but that feels wrong, since a valley is a singular phenomenon, like this band. I used a plural verb form for Cryptyds (I wrote "Cryptyds are" and "Cryptyds have," not "Cryptyds is" and "Cryptyds has," because that noun is PLURAL; "Cryptyds is" would just feel daft. It's a bit less clear with Rempel, but "Rempel are" just feels better than "Rempel is," since otherwise you might think I mean just one person.   

What was that about consistency being the bugbear of small minds? 

Oh, speaking of the Straight, I might have something coming up on the Straight website later today too, on totally other stuff, but it's not online yet. Meantime, Fink City, here I come. (Maybe). But Mike Usinger did a whole feature on Blue Jay Valley, which you can read here. I'm going to do that right now.