Award Tour
Yo, Coolfer is right, you can't fuck with NYC for amazing live music all around town on a nightly basis. And I don't want to feed into that whole NYC-envy thing that DC seems to suffer from, but DC is holding it down just fine on our own:
Tuesday, March 22nd - Cartel @ DC9 - Holy Shit, that's tonight. I guess I'll be missing The Amazing Race then. Check out their DCist interview.
Thursday, March 24th - Crooked Fingers @ The Black Cat - Longtime readers know how I feel about the Big E and his former band, the indomitable Archers of Loaf (my first true musical love). I really want to go to this show (even more so now that I just found out that I have Friday off!) but there's that pesky basketball tournament going on too.
Saturday, March 26th - The Fatales @ Iota - Heard nothing but good things about this local group. Their 6 song EP, Pretty in Pixels, has had my toe tapping for the last week or so (maybe I'll even post a review of that soon). And they are playing with The Twinemen (ex-Morphine)!
Monday, March 28th - The Morrissey Movie!
Tuesday, March 29th - Queens of the Stone Age @ 930 - Hell fuck yeah! I'm ashamed to say I've never seen them before.
Wednesday, March 30th - Graham Coxon @ Black Cat - I'm on the fence about this show. I really wanna go but I'm gonna fucking bottle him if he doesn't play You're So Great and Coffee & TV, neither of which are listed on this set list. *hmph* C'mon dude! It's not like Blur ever toured these shores relentlessly. Throw us a frickin' bone man!
Thursday, March 31st - Phoenix @ 930 - Coolfer sez: You must see this band live. Good enough for me. *shrug*
I think I should ask for next Friday off instead.
In future touring news, Weezer is skipping DC (fuckers!), but the mighty Spoon is not. Cheers to Britt fornot forsaking us! You will be rewarded with a massive display of merchandise purchasing by yours truly.
Oasis to return to the States in September and October, thereby saving me from buying outrageously overpriced, scalped tickets to their June show in Philly? Kasabian and Jet to open.
Line ups for the annual Reading/Leeds festival are up. Friday is looking tight, but alas, no Furries! :(
News from Radiohead. Remember them? I think they had a hit in the mid-90's. Something about being special.
"It's not like Blur ever toured these shores relentlessly."
are you being sarcastic? They did tour the u.s. relentlessly.
Correct me if I am wrong but they did one tour for 13 in which they played the album in order and encored with Girls and Boys and There's No Other Way and then they did a small club tour for Think Tank.
It's not like they made 3 trips around the country behind a record like Oasis, Radiohead or Coldplay.
Before that I lived in NC and they never played there...not that NC is a touring hot spot for Brit bands or anything.
I saw Blur in Santa Barbara when they were touring for Leisure. If hitting a small market (abliet close to LA) like that isn't a sign that they were touring hard, nothing is. I think they even played in Suckramento on that tour.
Though it seems that on subsequent tours they hit only major markets and didn't take too seriously the task of breaking into America. (I recall some shows when Blur and "Song 13" broke, but I didn't attend, and they were in major markets only, I believe.)
Take Travis...those guys practically lived in the U.S. before, during and after The Man Who came out. And it paid off.
Speaking of never touring the States, when are the Manics coming over? (hehe)
Yummy, nice photo.
I saw Blur when there were touring for "The Great Escape". They had a horn section and played several cuts from "Parklife". Since moving to DC in 97 Blur played a gig at the old Black Cat and Nation not sure which tours those were.
QOTSA kicks a whole lot of ass live. I mean it. Lots. Make sure you bring extra ass to the show to have it kicked.. its nice to stock up.
have you heard the new spoon record yet? it's so good you'll puke.