I know that I'm not all that you got
Mar. 22nd, 2012 10:38 pm+ I was very sad that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shutyourface didn't get to come - there were tickets left last week! they only just moved it from the Studio to the Ballroom on Friday! how did it sell out so fast?!? In any case, I met up with Overairwaves, had some nachos and drinks. Forgot: Lucky's does $2 happy hour rail drinks. :D :D :D Sober by the time I need to drive home. Chatted with RockMom (she's awesome) before heading into the Studio for happy hour, glomming onto some folks we were chatting with about shows in line even though we hadn't actually been IN the line at that point. Eh, DNW barrier particularly, just didn't want to be in the rain, and wanted to hang out at the bar instead of outside. (As an aside, I think the the pre-show happy hour is sort of pointless as a money-maker when they swing the line of teenies in to block access to the bar. I'd guess that 95% of the people waiting there for "happy hour" didn't actually buy any drinks, not even a soft-drink.)
+ Opening act. Violin, keyboard, acoustic guitar, accordion, xylophone, keyboard between three people. SOLD! (The violinist/keyboardist initially reminded me of Greta Salpeter/Morgan, but only in hair & manner, not actually like her facially upon closer inspection.) Sort of folk-y. Avalanche City. Their new EP is out, but they didn't have any at the venue, so. It's on iTunes, but I prefer to give them my money via tickets and the merch booth.
+ Random notes from the show: Nate judges you SO HARD if you don't know his lyrics. His vocals sound better live than on the album, where they are sort of bland and leveled out by autotune. Jack's guitar is awesome live. TRUMPET. Apparently the HTx show was the biggest headlining show they'd played to date? I thought it was a good crowd - sold out, but not as over-sold and packed as the Chris Cornell show there a couple of years ago, or the Silver Sun Pick Ups last year. The crowd seemed split between people who only knew We Are Young and fans who knew all the lyrics.
+ ( Track-by-track )
+ I went to the Flying Saucer tonight b/c I didn't feel like cooking for myself (A is in Austin on business), and had New Belgium's Cocoa Mole Lips of Faith beer. IT IS DELICIOUS. Cocoa nib flavor without being the chocolaty-type flavor that you get in Young's Chocolate Stout, spicy but subtly so, so that you notice it more as you finish the pint rather than up front. Also, Clown Shoes' Vampire Slayer Stout. Not spicy, just a nice, malty stout, not as much body as some, but definitely superior to St. Arnold's Winter Stout, even when the latter is on cask.
+ Dante is chirping at me, and I need to do some laundry and some dishes, and change out the litter pan completely, so I suppose that is all for the night.
shutyourface didn't get to come - there were tickets left last week! they only just moved it from the Studio to the Ballroom on Friday! how did it sell out so fast?!? In any case, I met up with Overairwaves, had some nachos and drinks. Forgot: Lucky's does $2 happy hour rail drinks. :D :D :D Sober by the time I need to drive home. Chatted with RockMom (she's awesome) before heading into the Studio for happy hour, glomming onto some folks we were chatting with about shows in line even though we hadn't actually been IN the line at that point. Eh, DNW barrier particularly, just didn't want to be in the rain, and wanted to hang out at the bar instead of outside. (As an aside, I think the the pre-show happy hour is sort of pointless as a money-maker when they swing the line of teenies in to block access to the bar. I'd guess that 95% of the people waiting there for "happy hour" didn't actually buy any drinks, not even a soft-drink.) + Opening act. Violin, keyboard, acoustic guitar, accordion, xylophone, keyboard between three people. SOLD! (The violinist/keyboardist initially reminded me of Greta Salpeter/Morgan, but only in hair & manner, not actually like her facially upon closer inspection.) Sort of folk-y. Avalanche City. Their new EP is out, but they didn't have any at the venue, so. It's on iTunes, but I prefer to give them my money via tickets and the merch booth.
+ Random notes from the show: Nate judges you SO HARD if you don't know his lyrics. His vocals sound better live than on the album, where they are sort of bland and leveled out by autotune. Jack's guitar is awesome live. TRUMPET. Apparently the HTx show was the biggest headlining show they'd played to date? I thought it was a good crowd - sold out, but not as over-sold and packed as the Chris Cornell show there a couple of years ago, or the Silver Sun Pick Ups last year. The crowd seemed split between people who only knew We Are Young and fans who knew all the lyrics.
+ ( Track-by-track )
+ I went to the Flying Saucer tonight b/c I didn't feel like cooking for myself (A is in Austin on business), and had New Belgium's Cocoa Mole Lips of Faith beer. IT IS DELICIOUS. Cocoa nib flavor without being the chocolaty-type flavor that you get in Young's Chocolate Stout, spicy but subtly so, so that you notice it more as you finish the pint rather than up front. Also, Clown Shoes' Vampire Slayer Stout. Not spicy, just a nice, malty stout, not as much body as some, but definitely superior to St. Arnold's Winter Stout, even when the latter is on cask.
+ Dante is chirping at me, and I need to do some laundry and some dishes, and change out the litter pan completely, so I suppose that is all for the night.
