The folks over at Jet City Stream hosted a terrific holiday open house last week. The open house featured performances by more than a dozen local musicians including the likes of Harvey Danger’s Sean Nelson, Caspar Babypant’s Chris Ballew (who is also the singer for PUSA), Mary Lambert (she of the beautiful voice on the hook of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Same Love”), Deep Sea Diver‘s Jessica Dobson, OC Notes and several others who I’m forgetting at the moment.
The event was meant to be an open house that you listen to as opposed to attend (since Jet City Stream is an online radio station after all) but the station’s infamous open door policy turned it into a community holiday gathering in the best possible way. Thanks to a mass-mailed Facebook invite everyone from Brent Amaker and NighTraiN to the guys in Fox and the Law and Fly Moon Royalty made random drop-in appearances, bringing booze, food and holiday cheer with them for the festive, daylong open house. It was a great representation of the community Jet City Stream is helping foster and develop and hopefully a positive sign of development for what will become a well-known institution in the local music scene.
Braden Blake of Super Deluxe was one of the performers who dropped by the JCS studio to partake in the festivities and he hopped on air with Marco Collins to perform a few holiday tunes. I was a pretty big Super Deluxe fan back in the day and my inner fanboy squealed with delight when I got to be part of a small group of five or six folks who were invited into the studio to watch Blake’s performance of the Super Deluxe songs “Years Ago” and the holiday classic “All I Wanted Was A Skateboard.”
Sadly, Super Deluxe is no more. Although the band did reunite a little while back and I wrote a somewhat clunky review of their comeback record, Surrender!, years ago (pun intended), and Blake didn’t completely rule out a reunion when Marco asked about it, so there might still be a chance for more Super Deluxe in the future. But until that happens the above video will be the only bit of live Super Deluxe goodness we’ll be getting.
