British Sea Power

when will franz ferdinand come east to dc?

Wow, smack. That's some good stuff (and Rhett wonders how we can have a list of 20 - 30 "to see" shows, not that I make them all, but they're on the 'interested' list).

Sat 04/10/04 The Juliana Theory Slim's

As a heads up, expect the Britney crowd. I have a friend who's a fan and gave me one or two albums (I had no idea what their deal was), so I went to see them with her at 9:30. Wow, we may have been two of the ten folks at the show (of only about 100-150, by the way) who could buy a drink legally. They were okay, but kind of cheezy. As it's a Sat night, not sure you want to use it for them. But, it could be fun, what the hell.

Sat 03/20/04 Fishbone The Independent
Sat 03/20/04 Franz Ferdinand w/ The Tyde The Independent

So does this means all three are playing? If that's the case, mother of god – how much fun!!?!!

Wed 04/07/04 Raveonettes Bottom Of The Hill

I found their show really boring. Maybe they've gotten better; I saw them when just the EP was out. Won't catch them when they come through DC…

Alas, Lily, that show is in San Francisco.

But shouldn't they come through here eventually??!!?

Originally posted by lily1:
oh hell yeah! black cat, i'm guessing?

when did that get announced?

Originally posted by mark e smith:
Sat 03/20/04 Franz Ferdinand w/ The Tyde The Independent


Oh, how many diseased corpses would I trample to go to that show?

just caught that it was part of smackie's list. my bad.

but yes, me thinks they needed to fire up the econline van and come east.

Originally posted by mark e smith:
Sat 03/20/04 Franz Ferdinand w/ The Tyde The Independent


Oh, how many diseased corpses would I trample to go to that show?

You're telling me……

Originally posted by Bags:
Wow, smack. That's some good stuff (and Rhett wonders how we can have a list of 20 - 30 "to see" shows, not that I make them all, but they're on the 'interested' list).

I purposely left the 4 times the Old 97's are playing here off the list to see if Rhett would double check my "math".

Sat 04/10/04 The Juliana Theory Slim's

As a heads up, expect the Britney crowd. I have a friend who's a fan and gave me one or two albums (I had no idea what their deal was), so I went to see them with her at 9:30. Wow, we may have been two of the ten folks at the show (of only about 100-150, by the way) who could buy a drink legally.

Oy, Bags, that's why I'm going!

Sat 03/20/04 Fishbone The Independent
Sat 03/20/04 Franz Ferdinand w/ The Tyde The Independent

So does this means all three are playing? If that's the case, mother of god – how much fun!!?!!

My bad. The Franz show w/ the Tyde is at Slims. Fishbone is at the Independent.

Wed 04/07/04 Raveonettes Bottom Of The Hill

I found their show really boring. Maybe they've gotten better; I saw them when just the EP was out. Won't catch them when they come through DC…

My only other option is to see them open for the Strokes a week later so I thought I would check the warm-up show with just them. We'll see.

Originally posted by vansmack:

There are so many shows here that I'm a bit overwhelmed. These are the show I'm considering (among others):

you should also check out this one:

march 30- sun kil moon at great american music hall.

go to the frames and damien rice. do not miss that show. smackie, if you need frames or damien rice stuff let me know. i've got tons of it at home. alot of the frames import stuff and then live damien rice.

modest mouse, of course

Originally posted by lily1:
go to the frames and damien rice. do not miss that show. smackie, if you need frames or damien rice stuff let me know. i've got tons of it at home. alot of the frames import stuff and then live damien rice.

Thanks for your offer, Lily. Smackette loves the Frames. She has taken all of my CD's. I just recently picked up "Setlist" (the live Dublin CD) and I haven't even had a chance to listen to it because she's had since we got home from Ameoba. We won't be missing that show.

I think Damien Rice is available on Napster so I'll download it and check it out.

smackie you utter bastard…………

Sat 03/20/04 Franz Ferdinand w/ The Tyde The Independent

Originally posted by poorlulu:
smackie you utter bastard…………

Sat 03/20/04 Franz Ferdinand w/ The Tyde The Independent

Hey lulu….you've been busy at work, haven't you?

I checked FF's website (That's Franz Ferdinand, not Foo Fighters :D ); they're not coming near D.C. ?????

Originally posted by poorlulu:
smackie you utter bastard…………

Sat 03/20/04 Franz Ferdinand w/ The Tyde The Independent

Ahhh, Lulu, you're too sweet. I love you too.

Well then my math only shows four shows I would go to out there. Actually, just one Old 97's show would be satisfactory.

Originally posted by vansmack:

Originally posted by Bags:
Wow, smack. That's some good stuff (and Rhett wonders how we can have a list of 20 - 30 "to see" shows, not that I make them all, but they're on the 'interested' list).

I purposely left the 4 times the Old 97's are playing here off the list to see if Rhett would double check my "math".

Sat 04/10/04 The Juliana Theory Slim's

As a heads up, expect the Britney crowd. I have a friend who's a fan and gave me one or two albums (I had no idea what their deal was), so I went to see them with her at 9:30. Wow, we may have been two of the ten folks at the show (of only about 100-150, by the way) who could buy a drink legally.

Oy, Bags, that's why I'm going!

Sat 03/20/04 Fishbone The Independent
Sat 03/20/04 Franz Ferdinand w/ The Tyde The Independent

So does this means all three are playing? If that's the case, mother of god – how much fun!!?!!

My bad. The Franz show w/ the Tyde is at Slims. Fishbone is at the Independent.

Wed 04/07/04 Raveonettes Bottom Of The Hill

I found their show really boring. Maybe they've gotten better; I saw them when just the EP was out. Won't catch them when they come through DC…

My only other option is to see them open for the Strokes a week later so I thought I would check the warm-up show with just them. We'll see.

Nevermind, I'm having a rough go of the board today. My monitor is on the fritz and I can't see athe color red in my RGB scheme. It's brutal.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
you should also check out this one:

march 30- sun kil moon at great american music hall.

I should have stated that some shows have been removed due to my schedule. I saw that show but unfortunately I will be in LA Mar 29-31.

You know how it is, when you live in a world that revolves around, well, you.

Originally posted by vansmack:
You know how it is, when you live in a world that revolves around, well, you.

i know exactly how that is smackie…………..but how exactly does that affect you………..?

i'm confused

Originally posted by poorlulu:
i know exactly how that is smackie…………..but how exactly does that affect you………..?

i'm confused

Gosh I miss the wit of you and Markie.

Just Monday at the Elefant show I was heckling the opening band, The Pleased, for being gawd awful and looking like a bad Tim Curry in Rocky Horror and the SF crowd was looking at me like I'm a freak. The lead singer was just a complete tool. He kept playing with the mic like he was Tim Curry from Rocky Horror (or maybe he was trying to be Diego from Elefant) and at one point the top half of the mic stand slid down into the bottom half because he slammed the stand down so hard. He couldn't get it out so he had to finish the song out on his knee so he could play guitar and sing the song.

So the club tech guy/roadie waits in between songs to go up there and fix it and the lead singer yells at him (mind you this is the Pleased's equipment, not the clubs) and I started telling the lead singer to stop acting like and ass and these things won't happen. The crowd just stood their in awe like "nodoby talks to the band". They were terrible and didn't even play their best song - "Another Disaster".

Anyhow, when I was chatting up Elefant between songs Diego was stoked and offered me one of those coveted Jadetree hugs, but I passed and the gay guy next to me got it instead. I don't care if you are a local band, your respect is earned.

Guess which one I'm talking about in this pic:

<img src="http://www.thepleased.com/visual/images/031023_nyc/IMG_4010.jpg" alt=" - " />

So what makes heckling a band so cool? Seems pretty juvenile to me.

I mean, the crowd was probably looking at you thinking what an ass you were, not looking at you in awe or anything like that.

Originally posted by Ballster:
So what makes heckling a band so cool? Seems pretty juvenile to me.

Who said anything about it being cool? I didn't.

I was defending the stage hand and letting the Pleased know that despite everybody's back being to you and chatting throughout your gawd awful performance, some of us are here to see you too (even own the album) and that you should give a little better effort. I'm sorry that Elefant isn't quite Berlin and The Psych Furs (who they are also opening for), but with an effort like this you should be lucky they haven't dropped you.