Black Belt Eagle Scout November 19, 2019 at The Nile Underground, Mesa AZ [Touring for their At the Party with My Brown Friends release]

KP creates and records all her music solo and then a band helps her to showcase it live when touring. this time, the band Hikes was her back up... composed of a Half Filipino by the name of Nay that released the second Tagalog titled album this year--that I know of stateside: Mahal Kita (I Love You). After their set, they returned with KP on drums plus a guitarist, the show starting off soft with At the Party and KP eventually switching to guitars for crowd favorites like Soft Stud and Loss & Relax. I was so glad I decided to attend--discovering the show very last minute when I scoured the venue websites to share my show picks on the Stinkweeds Blog.

The show was a bit strange. The main venue had a much louder act performing and you could hear creaking of the audience above while the softer outputs of Hikes and BBES at times benefited by the strange juxtaposition of music output above and below. 

Got to speak to both bands after the show and couldn’t resist Hikes artful lyric and tour book for their Japan tour and few days prior to release, Mahal Kita. BBES’s latest on cassette for 80s prices... full record for $5... Unheard of!