This Weekend

Great show weekend!

Friday night I will be going to see Downtown Harvest playing their second residency show upstairs at World Cafe with Victor Victor Band and Prowler. This is Philadelphia live music at it’s best!.

Saturday night, Nataly and I will be at the Nurses/Le Loup show at Kung Fu Necktie. This ones gonna be so much freakin fun. (Check out the Nurses video on our home page.)

Hope to see you out and about!

Andee

BIG VENUE little venue

BIG VENUE lIttle venue

I hate big venues.  I hate the Spectrum, the Wachovia Center and I even hate the Mann.  I hate medium sized venues too.  I hate the Troc, and the Electric Factory.  I am not a girl with a lot of hate in her with this exception.  Wait I lied there is more… I hate paying absurd amounts of money to see bands I like. Thank you Live Nation.

I get that big venues are a statement of success, big stage, more people, more money.  But what they don’t see is that mo’, money, mo’ problems, for me at least.

I can never see at big venues. Not only because I am vertically challenged but also because the band is stuck up on some huge stage and feels like I need a golf cart to get to it.

There are smoke machines, fancy lights, and rigid security.  I can do without all that luxury.  It works occasionally for bands like Genesis (yes, I went to that. No, I am not ashamed) or REM (I was there too) but I much prefer less glitz and more sweat.

I like the seedy little bars, basements of churches, deepest depths of a random house in South Philly.  It’s intimate.  I can see the band play, I can feel their sweat, and more importantly they can see me.  I would imagine seeing your fans dance and enjoy your music would be rewarding enough without the laser beams.

I am not one for violent dancing but I do like to shake it. And I really like to stage dive when the mood strikes. I hate when some big muscle-man tells me I can’t or grabs me mid surf and pulls me down.  I understand it’s dangerous, but let me surf before I get too old and frail!

I love the First Unitarian Church, Starlight Ballroom, Kung Fu Necktie and Johnny Brenda’s.  I love that I can afford shows there and that the bands I love are willing to play there.  I commend bands that are “big” enough to play those dreadfully large venues yet choose to keep it small and simple.  So, it just goes to show,

bigger is not always better.  Unless we are talking about sex, and then it is.