March Roll Call and Reviews

other options i can't consider because i'm not in town that week:
Tue 3/18 Tilly and the Wall @RnR (vs. GiaA)
Wed 3/19 The Most Serene Republic @DC9 (vs. APTBS+HF)

march-planning related question: what's a good resource for checking up on shows in chicago? also, feel free to post/send me suggestion in chi-town for the week of march 16-22.

The Hives March 8th @ 930 [if I can get tickets]
Justice March 9th @ Sonar
Justice March 12th @ 930
MSTRKRFT March 12th @ Ottobar [If I could find someone to go]
Crystal Castles March 23rd @ Ottobar
Digitalism March 24th @ DC9 [If I could get a fake ID]

9 Mar - Justice - Sonar
12 Mar - MSTRKRFT - Ottobar
18 Mar - God is an Astronaut - Ottobar
19 Mar - Sons and Daughters - RNRH
24 Mar - Digitalism - DC9
29 Mar - Ghostland Observatory - 930

Pogues 3/09
APTBS 3/19

Here's the only show I'm going to this month. Anybody else going?

It's difficult to convey how enjoyable a Robbie Fulks live show is. When you're telling someone about it, you don't know what to focus on. There's his sharp sense of humor. There's the way you find yourself saying, "Wait a minute, that's a Cher song!" (or Abba, or Michael Jackson, or . . .). Then again, there's the way Fulks and his band play such twangy, heartbreakingly real country music. It could make the most hard-core country purist cry. He can rock out on occasion, too. See him at Jammin' Java Saturday.

I hope the fab miss p. doesn't mind a little expansion to her thread..

anyways so far i'm in for the hives (just got back) and seeing Alice Smith at the BC later today.

No filling of any buzzword bingo cards based on my Hives review… This band just makes me happy and occasionally twitch my body rhythmically to the beat. Always a fun show when the crowd is there to just have a good time… Could have done without the Donnas…

13th: Live @ 9:30
15th: Louis XIV @ RRH
21st: Virginia Coalition @ DC
27th: Matthew Good @ Iota
29th: Vic Wooten @ State Theater

every Friday @ Geisha Lounge… my month is pretty sparse.

hmmmn, its gonna be pretty lonely at the morcheeba show!

i might check out sons and daughters as well.

Get yer bingo cards out…

Was really looking forward to finally seeing Alice Smith, but for the first time felt that the sound there and crowd truly ruined a show there for me. As long as Alice was singing in the bottom of her range the sound was adequate, but the upper range was turned thin and tinny sounding, even the bottom end of her bands sounded muddier. And the crowd was unbelievably chatty through the show even during the songs. Was diggin' the funked up versions of the songs along with a couple choice covers including The Prentenders "Don't Get Me Wrong"

Kosmette had a blast at the Pogues save for the drunken frat boy assholes and a couple tall people…

Justice @ Sonar = 100 boners

So it was an erect sausage convention? Gross.

I've always imagined a Pogues crowd to be at least 85% drunken frat boy assholes (and aging drunken asshole former fratboys). Am I wrong on that one?

Originally posted by kosmo:


Kosmette had a blast at the Pogues save for the drunken frat boy assholes and a couple tall people…

well this group was a extra special type of nimrod, who at one point almost got tossed out of the club and were also claiming they would be getting backstage after the show…

the hives show was super awesome. also good times to hang with callat703 and director, although i drank way too much and ended up missing out on justice @ sonar last night. oh well.

i came to shoot at this; the hives were a blast! i mean, come on. who can argue with a full-on pit at 9:30?
and i didn't mind the donnas as i thought i would…they rocked it out. twas a good time.

photos are up here , and at brightest young things…

Originally posted by you be betty:
i came to shoot at this; the hives were a blast! i mean, come on. who can argue with a full-on pit at 9:30?
and i didn't mind the donnas as i thought i would…they rocked it out. twas a good time.

photos are up here , and at brightest young things…

mhm. your photos are teh prettiez. i was the reviewer.

also, i drank so much that i missed justice last night. i mean .. i drank so much that i couldnt even keep down water yesterday and i was in bed till 6 p.m.

*sigh* the perils of hanging with the boardies at a 930 show.

Originally posted by miss pretentious:

Originally posted by you be betty:
i came to shoot at this; the hives were a blast! i mean, come on. who can argue with a full-on pit at 9:30?
and i didn't mind the donnas as i thought i would…they rocked it out. twas a good time.

photos are up here , and at brightest young things…

mhm. your photos are teh prettiez. i was the reviewer.

also, i drank so much that i missed justice last night. i mean .. i drank so much that i couldnt even keep down water yesterday and i was in bed till 6 p.m.

*sigh* the perils of hanging with the boardies at a 930 show.

But tell me it wasn't awesome. :)

Originally posted by miss pretentious:

Originally posted by you be betty:
i came to shoot at this; the hives were a blast! i mean, come on. who can argue with a full-on pit at 9:30?
and i didn't mind the donnas as i thought i would…they rocked it out. twas a good time.

photos are up here , and at brightest young things…

mhm. your photos are teh prettiez. i was the reviewer.

also, i drank so much that i missed justice last night. i mean .. i drank so much that i couldnt even keep down water yesterday and i was in bed till 6 p.m.

*sigh* the perils of hanging with the boardies at a 930 show.

ahah, for real? that's funny. well, here's to more shooting + reviewing combos in the future?

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
also, i drank so much that i missed justice last night. i mean .. i drank so much that i couldnt even keep down water yesterday and i was in bed till 6 p.m.

*sigh* the perils of hanging with the boardies at a 930 show.

what the hell did callat and thedirector do to you?!? doesn't sound very gentlemanly on their part.

goddamit, leave those two alone for one night…

Originally posted by sweetcell:

Originally posted by miss pretentious:
also, i drank so much that i missed justice last night. i mean .. i drank so much that i couldnt even keep down water yesterday and i was in bed till 6 p.m.

*sigh* the perils of hanging with the boardies at a 930 show.

what the hell did callat and thedirector do to you?!? doesn't sound very gentlemanly on their part.

goddamit, leave those two alone for one night…

Hey, it was her boyfriend buying the shots. Don't look at me!

And of course, you should have been there yourself.