Spotlight On Fiddlehead!

On Saturday, March 12th, Fiddlehead once again took the stage at the new Spotlight Tavern in Beverly. Its located on Rantoul Street across from the Ford dealership and it seems to be the new happening spot in Bevtown. Its a pretty cool bar with a nice layout and the staff is excellent. I also spoke with one of the co-owners who was a really nice guy and seems to want to do a lot to help promote local music since he is in a band himself!

This particular evening Fiddlehead is opening for a band called Moss. They have a really good sound person, everything is mic'd well and the mix sounds great from the audience side. I recorded Fiddlehead's set on a digital camcorder so hopefully some of those clips will be online soon. There is a great crowd and I heard later that around 150 people came through the doors during the course of the night!

Fiddlehead's set is great and I think some of them were letting out some stress. Its difficult for a band to play shows every week, sometimes traveling for hours, while keeping up with their personal lives. Pat's solos sounded particularly awesome this evening and he had some new gadgets to make crazy sounds on "Save the Robots". Mike and Kevin both sound solid and switch between bass and guitar flawlessly. Tim tries out some new techniques and his drumming sounds great all mic'd up.

Overall it was a great show and I wish I had ended up staying for Mauce. They had a live painting raffle like Fiddlehead usually does and they banged out a good sound check. They also had some cool lights to combine with Fiddlehead's. Next time I will definitely stick around and write something about these guys but unfortunately I had to dip back to Salem. I see a lot of big shows happening in the future at the Spotlight Tavern, it seems like the new hot spot in Beverly for sure.

If you missed Fiddlehead at the Spotlight, don't worry! They are playing again March 25th at Foobar in Portsmouth NH. They are also playing at the Mill Street Brews in Southbridge the following evening, March 26th. If you gotta stay local, stay tuned for April 2nd when Fiddlehead, Brown Chicken Brown Cow and Absylum invade Dodge Street!