Entertainment / Deathrock.com

A new review of Gender by Mark Splatter is up at Deathrock.com:

Entertainment Gender 2008 Entertainment from Atlanta, Georgia, are back with a new album, 2008's "Gender" available on CD/LP. Entertainment take dark, post-punk, gothic concept back to the drawing board, removing the complication and dispensing with the miserable pop-sensibilities of the latest crop of 'post-punk' bandwagoners over the past half decade. What they achieve with surrealistic, visually descriptive lyrics, and the opium-den like pace is ultimately parallel to none other than 'Only Theatre of Pain', oddly enough.

The album opens with two warbling numbers laden with clawing guitars and somnambulistic wailing, while dissonant keyboards float off in the distance. From there it picks up, but the percussions maintain a steady pace throughout, keeping 'Gender' not simply sedate, but more opiated. Not until 'New Joy', into the last half of the album does the guitar seem to sober up, if just for a moment, before sinking back into the haze. Ironically, the last song is the one that starts showing teeth and claws, outside of the back-and-forth of the rest of the album.

read it HERE.

Gnsvl / Jax Pics +++

more pictures of a cavern:





goodbye.

Entertainment / Gnsvl, Jax / the sun always shines

We drove to Jacksonville in the morning. something was on the news, sharks, death celebrity, something. We discussed whether Jane's Addiction was our Bauhaus.

Leaving Gainesville left a strange taste in my mouth, through spotty Florida rains. We saw some strange man crazy on the side of the road, rocking back and forth, hitting his own head. I see these things all the time, like a future.

Jacksonville is the most boring city in the US. Max Michaels from Movement magazine made it worth our time. Gracious and fantastic. We sat for hours in the club, laying on couches being forced through Jacksonville Idol, a local rip off of American Idol, that happened from 8-10 at the club. then the goth queens filtered in exchanging with the local talent queens.



The music here is still techno and ebm. I've avoided this for so long I didn't know it still exists. We get the worst advice on our music.



The crowd was a completely a surprise and friendly and vocal and then they disappeared 5 songs in. A weird reaction from a gyrating mess to a hollow room in 30 mins. We are the first thing a young girl fresh from a mental ward that afternoon sees when she gets out and she loved it.



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Entertainment / Gnsvl, Jax

We played Gainesville + Jacksonville FL June 26h and 27th. It's the first time we've gone there.

We drove into Florida listening to an overinflated description of Joy Divisions career talking about myth and legend. The same reasons it's been so hard for a breakthrough. Another small journey of small cities at night. Couches and hours on couches. We had no idea what to expect for these shows. The idea of playing another college town during the middle of summer is stifling.

We arrived in Gainesville, at the Atlantic, too early, cross the street to the Top and burn time in beautiful weather and clinging humidity. I can't remember the discussion.

In the Atlantic we take in air-conditioning, surrounded by Spanish portraits on black velvet in a broken black vinyl booth. The show is Blood-sucking puppets on Alien rap, a rave, us uncontrollably, pounding viciously at the moving crowd and biting 80's synth pop. We applied make-up like grease paint over glazed faces in the back of the van, it stays on for seconds. Always like foreign faces from out of town. The crowd is fantastic to us.
the line up:
Sarcastic
Oddknock
Entertainment
Girls on Film

We were taken for late night pizza by Electronic SubSouth, caught in drunken street hussle as cops like battalions sweep over streets. This is a town that becomes martial law and crazed herds at 2 am. We went to a hotel with a thick green pool, and slept.

I've seen pictures from this show, we look like crap. people stop using flashing....

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