Submitted by Quky:

All I can say is if there was any doubt before, seeing 7 Year Bitch live at the Casbah showed just how awesome these four human beings are. I read the reviews on their May 24 performance at Moe's and now am pissed that I didn't get to Seattle to see them. And that webcast thing didn't work, or (more likely) I was too stupid to figure it out.

Lost Goat started the night and unfortunately the crowd hadn't arrived yet (9:00) so they had to play to an empty floor. all I can say is the crowd that eventually trickled in was not worthy of Lost Goat. The poor Goats were looking kind of awkward and well, lost, although that didn't seem to affect their playing. finally a lone woman walked into the middle of the empty floor and grooved, oblivious to the drunken stares of a few pathetic San diegans. of course, turns out she was/is Valerie Agnew.

next was a los angeles band, Bobsled which was a good, fun band. their lead singer wore a bear's head hat and ended their set playing the zephyr and singing something about nailing jesus to a board. next was red dog or something like that, apparently friends of bobsled and they were good too.

7 Year Bitch came on at around 12:30 and they apparently played the same list of songs they played at Moe's. "Hip like Junk" never sounded this good on the CD, that's for sure. I've never seen them live before and aside from their awesome music, they are really good looking. Selene vigil in particular is otherworldly. I don't think she even sweats.

The new guitarist Lisa seemed a really easygoing addition and although her fashion sense seems to head in a different direction than the other Bitches (which is cool), the sound was tight as usual, in fact, there seemed to be no adjustment change at all to the new guitarist. All in all, I'm glad I drove the 120 miles to see them. I know others have traveled much farther and all I can say is it's worth the drive/flight.