Quiet Grace
By Harry Kellerman

PHOTO by CHRISTINA LIMSON

SAT MAY 12 | SHE SELLS CDS BY THE SEASHORE | LONG BEACH

This was the second-ever show at She Sells CDs by the Seashore, a really warm and inviting space—small, but not crowded—with serious potential to bring good, all-ages shows back to Long Beach. (Remember those?) Foot Foot, a four piece normally but tonight only two (vocals over electric and acoustic guitar), played to a half-full room. One of the pitfalls of quiet bands like this is that they tend to more or less bore people live, even those who own the record. The show becomes a polite endurance test. Foot Foot didn’t take the easy way out, though: singer Robin Dietz’s voice is intelligent, earnest and original and Josh Brown’s guitar work is innovative and intense (not afraid to do a solo, either, which deserves credit). Their songs were strong enough to stand on their own without novelty, so that the audience gave their undivided attention not out of obligation, but genuine appreciation of the song—a dying trend.