{"id":30,"date":"2011-03-16T03:14:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T03:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/?p=30"},"modified":"2011-03-23T01:22:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T01:22:59","slug":"photo-archives-01-14-05-libianca-and-maesta-at-house-on-broad-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Photo archives 01-14-05: Libianca and Maesta at House On Broad Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quietzine.com\/galleries\/01-14-05libiancamaesta\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quietzine.com\/galleries\/01-14-05libiancamaesta\/l9.jpg\" alt=\"Libianca, four on the floor\" width=\"200px\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right: 12px;\" \/><\/a>One of the features of the old quietzine.com was an archive of photos from shows in Sylva and nearby towns. We will periodically highlight a selection from this archive, beginning with this one, featuring Libianca and Maesta, two Sylva bands legendary for slightly different reasons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quietzine.com\/galleries\/01-14-05libiancamaesta\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view the gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pictured show took place at House On Broad Street, a residence in downtown Sylva inhabited by, among others, John Henry and Manuel of Libianca. For a glorious period of six months or so, they opened their living room to a variety of local and touring bands, incurring in the process a number of broken windows.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Libianca existed for perhaps less than a year, but managed to achieve their legendary status due to an intense live show and a decidedly unusual approach to heavy music, pairing wildly confessional vocals with byzantine, slowly-echoing guitars. They were the subject of a feature in issue #4 of <em>Quiet<\/em>, and singer John Henry Gloyne provided the cover art for issue #3.<\/p>\n<p>Maesta were the signature band of the short-lived show space at 609 Mill Street. Essentially the work of local scene heavies overcoming questionable musicianship by sheer force of personality, Maesta simultaneously charmed and terrified audiences as both a three-piece and four-piece, before finally assuming the moniker Viva La Slut Ass Neck and ending their reign of terror under a merciless hail of cream pies (seriously).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the features of the old quietzine.com was an archive of photos from shows in Sylva and nearby towns. We will periodically highlight a selection from this archive, beginning with this one, featuring Libianca and Maesta, two Sylva bands &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/?p=30\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quietzine.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}