A Night on King Street
It's always a strange night when we play the King Club. We were there, set up and sound checked by 9:15. As the opening act, we had a tight little 40 minute set planned in order to get the crowd pussycat for Modern Addict and Lorenzo's Music. Don't plan an encore! The opening act NEVER does an encore. That would be bad form.
It wasn't until after our sound check that we learned Lorenzo's Music had to cancel due to an injury. Bummer! I really wanted to see those guys play live! Oh well, there's always next time. So, we were told to go on no earlier than 11pm. We negotiated for 10:45 'cause our fans, though loyal, need their beauty rest. We also added an extra 20 minutes of tunes to help "fill out" the evening.
Kudos to our fans for sticking with us and elbow dancing past midnight. You guys are real troopers! We had a good set with an unexpected group of post-wedding reception revelers offering up some stage dancing. Kat had to keep one of them from trying to "sing along" into one of the mics. At the end of our set, they were asking us to play an Alison Krauss song so that there friend, "who had a really good voice" could entertain the crowd. Sorry, we don't know the song. Gomeroke's a couple of blocks down the road. Thanks for dancing though.
Kat is seen here applauding the Solid Gold Elbow Dancers for their efforts.
We loaded out directly after our performance but stayed to hear modern Addict. They're a fun band with tunes that are great to dance to.
As I was sitting there I began to wonder, what does it take to get people out to see live music? There doesn't seem to be any spirit of exploration. People say that they don't want to pay money to see a band that they might not like but, come on...$5! That's how much a cover was 20 years ago. That's a Guinness, plus tip. That's two cups of coffee if you drink the "fruh-fruh" stuff.
My point is that, I knew almost everybody in the room except the guy from the local rockers, Blamm-O!, who introduced himself after our set. I think Blamm-O! and Ka-Boom!Box should play a gig together and bill it as 'Bands of Exuberance' night. But, I digress...
The evening went just fine. We left around 1:15 which allowed us to miss any crap that might have gone down on King street at bar time. But that's a subject for another post...Sometime.
It wasn't until after our sound check that we learned Lorenzo's Music had to cancel due to an injury. Bummer! I really wanted to see those guys play live! Oh well, there's always next time. So, we were told to go on no earlier than 11pm. We negotiated for 10:45 'cause our fans, though loyal, need their beauty rest. We also added an extra 20 minutes of tunes to help "fill out" the evening.
Kudos to our fans for sticking with us and elbow dancing past midnight. You guys are real troopers! We had a good set with an unexpected group of post-wedding reception revelers offering up some stage dancing. Kat had to keep one of them from trying to "sing along" into one of the mics. At the end of our set, they were asking us to play an Alison Krauss song so that there friend, "who had a really good voice" could entertain the crowd. Sorry, we don't know the song. Gomeroke's a couple of blocks down the road. Thanks for dancing though.Kat is seen here applauding the Solid Gold Elbow Dancers for their efforts.
We loaded out directly after our performance but stayed to hear modern Addict. They're a fun band with tunes that are great to dance to.
As I was sitting there I began to wonder, what does it take to get people out to see live music? There doesn't seem to be any spirit of exploration. People say that they don't want to pay money to see a band that they might not like but, come on...$5! That's how much a cover was 20 years ago. That's a Guinness, plus tip. That's two cups of coffee if you drink the "fruh-fruh" stuff.
My point is that, I knew almost everybody in the room except the guy from the local rockers, Blamm-O!, who introduced himself after our set. I think Blamm-O! and Ka-Boom!Box should play a gig together and bill it as 'Bands of Exuberance' night. But, I digress...
The evening went just fine. We left around 1:15 which allowed us to miss any crap that might have gone down on King street at bar time. But that's a subject for another post...Sometime.
2 Comments:
WOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!! What an awesome night!!!
"revelers" not revilers! (OOOOooh, dem wascawy people who revile!)
"evening" not evennnnnning.
"fru-fru" not fruh-fruh.
Yours,
Phantom of phraseology, parsing & parsimony
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