So after the Italian showcase, I made it straight away to catch yet another matinee daylight dance party.

Gordon Voidwell was performing and I was curious to see how things were looking for the former four piece turned three piece when Jamie Lidell snatched Guillermo E. Brown to be a part of his band. With Guillermo’s Zenphone gone, the Voidwell crew had become completely hardware based. No laptops on stage at all. So I wanted to catch how the new arrangements sounded.

Guess who wasn’t a three piece. Joining them onstage was Guillermo playing auxiliary percussion and a drummer whose name I didn’t catch playing a digital drum kit right next to Kassa. But they still played the new arrangements but there was a constant wall of percussion. Gordon and crew were definitely the best dressed of Northside Festival with red and white two-toned outfits, but they were also one of the most energetic.

Opening with “Heart of Glass” they filled nearly every second of stage time with great music, “Ivy League Circus”, “White Friends” and “Shadow” all made appearances with a new, fuller bass sound as Tecla handles everything that isn’t percussion or lead vocals. I felt sorry for every band that had to follow, but I couldn’t stick around because my phone was dying and I needed food.

Tayisha Busay Party at House of Yes.

We loved Tayisha Busay so much at Crushfest that we had to go see them again and we had to watch the showcase they put together at House of Yes. If there were more acts that aligned with what Tayisha Busay were doing, I HAD to know about them and though my crush was two days old, I got everything I wanted and free alcohol.

House of Yes was a sweatbox with a ton of artfully dressed kids and glitter everywhere. Free alcohol and fun dance music made my series of updates from the venue make less and less sense and typos abound.

We walked in and DJ Tantric was giving us lazer bass, booty bounce, grind and speed garage. It was party music and it was a great way to set the mood. Probably the only party whose DJs had us moving.

Chappo was the first band and they reminded me of early Of Montreal, psychedelic garage noise with costumes, costumes, costumes. There was a weird bit where they went on an extended, uh, Native American theme that was uncomfortable. White dudes in mock headdresses are not really cool. The music was very good though.

Planet Rump played a very interesting part of the whole line up. In between sets they’d come out and play a song or two and get off the stage. Planet Rump is DJ Tantric, Miss Strawberry and Nasty Ness who make some straight up 86 style party jams. Sound of the City meets sound of the bedroom. A hell of a lot of fun.

Tayisha Busay was a great time again. They changed up the dance routines from just two days ago, which shows me that they’re not content to just run through the same movements from show to show. They are a LOT of fun and songs like “Tonight” show that there is more to them than simulated sex acts and rolling around puking glitter. Which reminds me, they puked glitter. It was pretty amazing. If you like Ninjasonik and other party jams bands in that mold, there’s no reason to not check out Tayisha Busay.

After that we had planned on hitting up Public Assembly to catch FaltyDL, but like every other showcase, the Tayisha show was like an hour late, so we missed them. When we made it to Public Assembly, we were told that the FaltyDL party wasn’t part of Northside and charged, which is contradicted repeatedly on L Magazine’s website and program guide, so whatever.