The Woodsmiths
THE WOODSMITHS
Derek-Guitar/Vocals/Mandolin/Banjo, Corey-Gypsy Drum Kit/Hand Percussion, Jordan- Bass
Carving sounds for your eardrums with a rotating circle of friends and several bottles of alchohol. With songs about sleeping in squat houses and drinking whiskey on the river side, get ready to clean some grit out of your teeth.
“This one’s about whiskey,” says the singer of The Woodsmiths, the first band to perform. The folk band featured a guitar, the drums, a violin and an upright bass fashioned out of a string and a tin bucket. As the singer belted out the one-word chorus, festgoers slammed a few shots of whiskey to transition from appreciating movies to appreciating alcohol.
The quartet glided through a set filled with similarly-themed songs. A few brave souls took to the otherwise empty dance floor to bust some moves that in another setting would be socially condemning but felt acceptable in Eastside.
After The Woodsmiths gave its parting words by kindly asking the audience to “tip them in drugs,” BY JACK FLEMMING
VOX MAGAZINE
MARCH 5, 2015