Posted! By Robots

Scheduling conflicts mean that Seattlest will probably have to miss tomorrow's Captured! By Robots/BlöödHag show at the Funhouse, but if you go we'll be able to feel we were there in spirit. Actually, being there in spirit means crap to us and, man, we wish we were going and could care less whether you go or not. That's not to say that you shouldn't go, because you should - Just don't expect us to care. Because we don't. Alright, we're going.

Captured! By Robots is a San Fran outfit that's been getting the sort of national press that really makes Seattlest want to get ourselves into their audience.

From the New Yorker:

Captured! By Robots, a very odd one-man, multi-cyborg band from San Francisco. The one man goes by the name JBOT, and he built his fellow band members, GTRBOT666 and DRMBOT0110, because, he says, he couldn't get along with other people. Unfortunately, the robots got the better of him and installed a biocerebral chip in JBOT's brain, and now he is their slave, or so the story goes. On stage the robots humiliate their human band member, and the resulting music is a grinding metal-influenced onslaught of sophomoric references and rock and roll.

BlöödHag, as you know, is a local metal band dripping with references to classic science fiction lit. "Very literate," people like to say about BlöödHag and they use the word "Edu-core" on their own website, but tinnitus and an Arthur C. Clarke shaped bruise on the forehead don't exactly make Seattlest feel the genius. Then again, how many bands of any genre have a reading list?

In their own words:

Crowds at BlöödHag shows can expect to be pelted with classic Sci-Fi novels while their hearing is destroyed by the balls-out attack that is uniquely Edu-Core. BlöödHag tears up the stage in a freaked-out frenzy of activity, pausing only to elaborate on the personal histories and great works of the authors the songs are about.

We love 'em, but we feel less bad about missing them because, unlike Captured! By Robots, they do play the area pretty frequently and have shows coming up in November. We're afraid that at this time we know nothing about The Dead Vampires who round out this noir future bill. Our public calendar off to the right shows this event to be tonight, but we're pretty sure the venue and the band websites are correct when they list it on Friday at 9.