A week ago we held the first ever musical performance/event at GRNY. As part of the Jet Blue Follow Your Whim tour, unofficial musical guest of Giant Robot Goh Nakamura came by the store to perform a set. With him were Sadie Contini and Han Wang, aka the Invisible Cities, and research biologist by day, indie rocker by night Eric Lai. Now I have to come clean and say that sweet indie acoustic music really isn't my cup of tea, or at least not a genre of music I actively seek out. But I have to say, I genuinely enjoyed everybody's performances a great deal. Eric Lai did a song called "Semi Ex-Girlfriend" that obviously came from the heart, and the chorus to the Invisible Cities' "Pythagorean Theorum" (A squared plus B squared equals C squared) was immediately stuck in my head. Sadie wrote it to get her young niece into mathematics and wound up penning one hell of a catchy chorus. Goh took the headlining spot with gusto. he's got talent and stage presence in spades. We were treated to tons of original songs, as well as "Tequila" (complete with Pee Wee Dance), "Papa Don't Preach", and *I even got the intro to Iron Maiden's "Wasted Years" out of him. Everybody involved and attending had a really great time. Goh's going to be playing at the Giant Robot Biennale in LA at the end of the month, so you West Coasters should make it a point to attend. The Biennale is going to be amazing, but that's another story.
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Labels: Eric Lai, Follow Your Whim, Giant Robot, Giant Robot Magazine, Giant Robot New York, Goh Nakamura, Green Candy Press, GRNY, Han Wang, Jet Blue, Sadie Contini, The Invisible Cities
