#hotel foster

  With any show there are so many more factors at play than just the quality of the acts involved. There’s the venue, the sound guy, the crowd, the available alcohol and about a million other variables that can tip the scales of any particular evening in one direction or the other.

Thursday night’s mixture was an unusual one, taking place at Hotel Foster, which, despite its best efforts, is an awkward place for music—and always has been; this reporter recalls, with questionable fondness, catching bands at the long-gone Globe—attended by an audience that seemed open to cutting loose, but not quite eager, and greatly livened up by a projection/light show outfit known as Video Villains. It was a strange balance but, along with the music, it all worked.