On September 12, I visited the Club Down Under from 9:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m. to view the band Desgraciadas at a multi-band concert. The audience was primarily college-aged hipster Caucasians. The venue was dark, with misty lighting centered on the stage. The audience of hipsters seemed appropriate for the venue- an underground local Tallahassee band. The band consisted of four members. Gladys Nobriga, the guitarist and Amanda Kirchen, the drummer both sported black and white outfits complete with suspenders and thick-rimmed glasses. Desgraciadas’s bass player was Jeppie Gutierrez, who sported a long black dress. Hope Limansah, dressed in jean shorts and a cheetah-print crop top, was the band’s lead singer. Halfway through the venue, Gladys and Amanda switched instruments and successfully demonstrated the band’s flexibility and musical proficiency.
Desgraciadas is a group with a unique style of music. To describe their style with one genre would not do justice. The songs they featured in the concert felt like a boiling soup mix of punk and indie rock, with a dash of metal sprinkled on top. Songs were a direct line to the members’ raw emotions. Gladys, while on guitar, swung his head around violently, gripping the guitar tight as he waved it up and down. Hope bounced back and forth with her hips. She would often mimic the dominant guitar’s …show more content…
They jumped up and down in time with the bass guitar, cheered, and even requested an extra song at the end called “Trash Milk”. They knew the music, loved the style, and enthused over the band. I would not see the band Desgraciadas again. Their particular music style did not match my tastes. I felt confused. Why were they angry? Why did only one song have a semblance of a chorus? That evening I left more baffled by Desgraciadas’s lack of structure and process—but upon reflection, I realized that was an active choice on their part. They were not simply a bad band. They were a band that chose