Laura Gibson - Kills It.

so i went looking for a youtube clip of laura to go with this post and i just saw brand new ones posted of a portland performance of her from about a week ago! one that i attended! and it was a great show and great footage. what i like is that at 3:50 in this video, its just me in the lower left and laura, she's playing just for me! funny. the song she starts 4 minutes into this video, i found to be the most moving of the show.





so anyways, apparently she's been killing it up here for a while as a portland-based artist, but I have just arrived on the portland scene here 6 months ago so i hadn't heard of her before that.

It was around july of this year, i found myself at the fucking awesome 3 day indoor/outdoor free pdx pop shows festival. what a great fucking idea, thank you people who came up with it. Way to enrich our city with awesome shit.
right, so it was around july, and i was at this show. there were a lot of interesting acts throughout the day i would have wanted to check out, but it was like over 100 degrees those days. i would try to go out, and feel like collapsing after one band and go home and just lay down til evening. so i was there in the lovely evening at around 11pm or 12 and it was still like 80 degrees out. t-shirts abound. on the outdoor stage, laura and friends took to it, and her beautiful music was able to silence and captivate the 500 or more kids, punks, street wackos, and music nerds into a perfect hush to hear her songs. she was really great and i enjoyed the performance right up front.

so i picked up her beasts of seasons album right after that and i'll be damned if there wasnt an early fall day or two where some of her songs would just be stuck in my head the entire day.



http://www.myspace.com/lauragibson