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Face-Off III is ready to shake the Hatch Ballroom
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A two-stage showdown: The first band plays on stage number one. The minute they finish, another band kicks in from the second stage on the other side of the ballroom.
When they finish, yet another band is already set up and ready to go on the first stage. This volley of music continues for a total of ten half-cycles, until the night is over and all involved are musically satiated.
Face-Off is the name of the game, and the third manifestation of this highly successful local music extravaganza is coming up on Thursday night. The several-band format of the event may bring the popular OBattle of the BandsO events to mind, but there’s a crucial difference here.
Matt VanderBoegh, one of the masterminds behind Face-Off, said, “The cool thing is that there’s no competition. It’s all good-natured music.”
Just ten bands playing for hundreds and hundreds of people who come to listen and enjoy.
Yes, hundreds and hundreds of people. The first Face-Off drew at least 800, and the second, under considerable disadvantage from two other rock shows the same night, drew 750.
“This year,” VanderBoegh said, “we’re expecting over a thousand.”
Luckily for the anticipated crowd, there’s something for almost every musical appetite, from the evolutional, sometimes hyperactive, sometimes sexual sounds of Organech, to the airport-security-tight, ball-grabbing rap-funk of Beat 16, to the seemingly off the cuff lyrical intensity of Triphonic. The other bands slated to perform are Subvert, Danger Baby, Relapse, Jakked Rabbit, Fly2Void, Fix 8, and Fat John and the Three Slims.
“The last two Face-Offs were killer,” VanderBoegh said.
He has every reason to expect the same of number three.
Mark Hitz
