For all intents and purposes, except for the pattern of the tie and the quality of the shot, those two images could be from the same night, though obviously they’re not. The top shot was taken with my Nikon Coolpix L3 on October 21, 2008, when Holy Ghost was the local open for Jersey band…
Category: opinions about concerts
static minds @ reservoir/sinful savage tigers @ the station
Things I forgot: how dark both the Station and Reservoir are. Things I learned: every beer Fullsteam makes is great, and so are Sinful Savage Tigers. Things I never forget: how much I love the Static Minds, and Erik in particular. 31! I celebrated by staying up until 4 am last night playing Angry Birds…
slingshot cash @ the cave
I talked Brian Matusz and Brad Bergesen with Jay, yelled at a Red Sox fan for pissing on my baseball stadium, and spotted two, TWO, Royals fans in the wild. I also drank $2 PBR drafts, which is dangerous. Slingshot Cash and Effingham played, too, and they were both excellent. Slingshot Cash releases their new…
the rural alberta advantage @ local 506
I sat here with this window open and blank almost all day; I wanted to say something profound about how gorgeous and heartbreaking and wonderful the Rural Alberta Advantage were last night, how Nils’ voice made me shudder and Paul’s drumming made me laugh and dance in a crowd that was, otherwise, quietly and politely…
wye oak @ local 506
So the thing is: I like Wye Oak recorded just fine. I listen to their records, I enjoy them, they’re good, and I think Civilian is even breathtaking in moments. But it’s live, live Wye Oak sounds like a heartbeat to me, and because I am from Baltimore and they are from Baltimore, it doesn’t…
superchunk @ the cradle
Yesterday at work I uttered the phrase “Superchunk are the elder statesmen of Triangle rock” and then had to explain the term “elder statesmen”, so I didn’t bother with explaining the rest of it, but they are: in his 40s, Mac still rocks harder than most of the kids in the Triangle today. Jim Wilbur…
brett harris @ local 506
I title this after Brett, because he fronted the only band whose full set I saw last night — I was out for him, and while I caught the end of The Stars Explode’s set and most of the Numbers, I was hanging out at the 506 for Brett. (Can I say how nice it…
jim avett @ local 506
Heidi, Jim Avett’s lovely publicist, told me to make sure that I introduced myself to Jim last night — and I would have anyway, to thank him for his interview, but because she’d said that, I made sure to find him during Reed Mahoney’s opening set. She’d warned me, though, that Jim was gregarious; that…
american aquarium @ motorco
One of the reasons that I keep shooting American Aquarium, even though I have more photos of them than any one person could need, is to see if I can get a different shot, a new one, every time. It’s not about them. It’s about me. Onward, Soldiers are, as always, a joy to shoot…
onward, soldiers @ open eye cafe
Wilmington’s Onward, Soldiers are spending a lot of time up in the Triangle these days, and I, for one, couldn’t be happier — the Open Eye is not an ideal performance space, weirdly shaped and full of graduate students with laptops who don’t understand why there is a rockin’ band playing and also made of…
brand new kind of photography 