Giraffe Massacre consists of Dave and Nick, both students of UCM. Coincidentally, most of the bands I've worked with as of late are or were UCM Students. I don't know the correlation, apart from really great local musicians are coming from there left and right, and I simply can't keep up with them all.
Giraffe Massacre are a really interesting band to watch/listen to. Initially, I got a porno groove type feel from their music, then realized Dave's metal influences bleed out heavily under the way technical guitar work and crazy time signatures, and beautiful repetition, twinkly breaks, and gently wound down to crazy instrumental dance your ass off type mathrock.
He and Nick work really well together and are both super friendly people. It was a true sight for me to actually SEE and not just hear, as I hadn't seen Dave in years and was used to him being into way different things, like sleeping on my couch in a tiny apartment and getting stranded at a park, drunk on my birthday by a crazy ex friend.. I asked him how they feel they differ from other bands in the genre, although it was quite obvious to me personally. Dave contributed it to his musical A.D.D and laughed. He expressed his love for Vox, although Nick proclaimed they were not brand snobs, and did whatever they could to get their equipment, whether it was borrowing a friend's drumset or playing on a broken cymbal for months.
Some things don't change, though. He still does that weird knee jerk/leg hump thing, likes to smell his gauges, is extremely into his musical projects which also include a R&B cover band, The Heavy Thems and Collapse of State, which has been inactive for some time now . At this particular event, they had a guest bassist (Ukie Hart) who was pretty stellar too. They're an awesome team, but they made an even more awesome trio. Currently, they're working on releasing their first EP. It ensures to be nothing sort of amazeballs.
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