I hit the Glass Candy/Chromatics show on Friday night at Rotture, two of the best looking and most popular bands in town. It was crammed, and I must have run into about 70 people I know, including the Mercury news intern, who scored many points in my book when he rescued me from fighting through the crowd with two full vodka sodas that were getting jostled and sloshed by carrying them over the crowd for me. Now that’s an intern. Anyhow, Merc photog Minh Tran was there too, and was nice enough to pass on some of the images he snapped:

(Here’s Ruth. She likes it that in Chromatics all she has to do is stand there and sing and look pretty even though she can play guitar better than any of her bandmates. Don’t ever forget it, she totally shreds.)

(Here’s Johnny. He built the “deco” stage you can see in the other photos.)

(Here’s Ida, who begs the question: pigtails, yes or no?)