[Photos and words by Rez Avissar]

This show should have happened long ago, November to be exact. I happened to add Glass Candy to my MySpace friends around that time, and attached one of those notes to the friend request expressing confusion as to their scheduled date’s disappearance. It didn’t necessarily call for a response, but a few hours later I received a message from producer/programmer Johnny Jewel, explaining, “we had to cancel the trip to finish our new 12″ and mix a new 12-track CD [presumably Deep Gems]… we’re gonna throw a huge party in the Spring out there, and bring out Farah and Chromatics to make up for it!!”

Chromatics and Farah were swapped for Italians Do It Better pals Twisted Wires and Nite Jewel, but throw a huge party they did. It’s apt that he billed it as a party, as the atmosphere was leaning as much if not more toward that than a show (one reviewer called it “[Jewel's] own private loft party”), with many a hand being thrown in the air, swigs of Maker’s Mark on stage and shared with all, vocoder-laced exclamations by singer Ida No (”we did ecstasy before the show!”), encouragement of fans to rock with the band on-stage, loads of t-shirts and CDs lobbed into the dancefloor, and Johnny and Ida generally showering us with good vibes (and huge balloon orbs).
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