About last night: Blackpool Lights and Pink Spiders at Great Scott

Top: Blackpool Lights. Below: Pink Spiders. Photos: Mike Johnson.

The Blackpool Lights, Pink Spiders, the Adored
May 17 at Great Scott, Allston

For those of us still longing for a Get Up Kids reunion tour, at least there's comfort in knowing that we can see three times as much Get-Up-spinoff now. Reggie and the Full Effect and the New Amsterdams were in full swing by the time TGUK split. But now the other Kid, Jim Suptic, is out on the road with his new band the Blackpool Lights. If this is news to you, too late: they were at Great Scott last night with Pink Spiders and the Adored. (They're currently touring behind a five-song EP and will release This Town’s Disaster June 20th on Curb Appeal Records.)

BPL’s sound didn’t stray from what was expected: it’s almost as if each TGUK member took a piece of that band's sound with them when they left. While Reggie is off drowning in synths, and Pryor is writing sappy alt-country tunes, Suptic is playing clean-cut indie rock w/o the attitude.

Pink Spiders get a big thumbs up for their fancy light show and cover of Elvis Costello’s “Peace, Love, & Understanding.” (Also thumbs up from OTD for taking the rollerderby girls to the laundromat -- see video below.) The Adored get a big thumbs down for their British accent even though they’re from LA. LAme.

-- Mike Johnson

DOWNLOAD: Blackpool Lights, "Blue Skies" (mp3, via MySpace)
WATCH: Pink Spiders, "Little Razorblade (windows) (real) (QT)