Comments | evilhippo: Stupid, Stupid Aragon Ballroom

evilhippo

Stupid, Stupid Aragon Ballroom

Apr 20, 2011 22:18

Guys, I have a problem. It turns out the rumors are wrong and the Decemberists aren't playing Lolla. They are, in fact, playing a show here at the end of July. I haven't seen them in something like four or five years, and it's high time I fix that. But there is one problem ( Read more... )

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Comments 6

apple_pathways April 21 2011, 03:27:13 UTC

I don't know, Carrie: I just don't know.

I got all excited when they announced a second round of dates for the summer, but there aren't any I could reasonably get to. (Interlochen, MI? Really? REALLY?)

I say go see them, as long as the tickets are of a reasonable price. What the hell, right?

apple_pathways April 21 2011, 03:52:34 UTC

Oh, also: I may have to get into Andrew Bird. I just found out he's playing the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

evilhippo April 21 2011, 04:07:56 UTC

See him play, see him play, see him play! He's really wonderful to see live... plus he's one of the only artists I know of who varies his music so much it doesn't matter one lick if you know the songs by heart--they're not going to sound the same in concert anyway. (And by not the same, I mean good, but sometimes with completely different melodies. And unexpected solos and breaks and... yeah. He's kind of awesome.)

evilhippo April 21 2011, 04:10:05 UTC

The tickets are $30, provided I trek up to the box office and avoid the $7.50 in extra fees... which is within my budget for shows. But the Aragon is just so bad. Maybe I'll wait it out and see how the other show there goes. And hope for a change in venue. (If the Aragon wasn't so pretty I'd go sabotage it so this wouldn't happen anymore.)

look_alive April 22 2011, 01:19:43 UTC

Hnng UGH. I so know your pain. Like, if they came back to McDonald Theater in Eugene, I honestly don't think I'd go. I think that venue is at some unholy union of Asshole Hippie ley lines that makes it physically, universally impossible to enjoy a show there.

That said, um. I dunno. I'd almost say don't go, honestly. Like, either that or just basically set yourself up with zero expectations and go in swinging, proverbially. Or literally, don't be like me.

Or else, I mean. We can have an epic Decemberists-chasing adventure when I move back. What with my having a car and all, like, I'd drive to freaking Indiana or maybe even Ohio for a good Decemberists show.

FRU-BUS!

evilhippo April 22 2011, 01:59:51 UTC

At least I'm not the only one who hates a venue enough to avoid a concert I really want to see. I think dealing with it once this summer will be bad enough. At least the crowds tend to be okay there, though (perhaps because we're all suffering together)... the only truly awful crowd I was ever in was at the Double Door. Which also has terrible sound.

No one is going to Ohio on my watch! (Also, I doubt they're playing anywhere in nearby-Ohio... look like it's just Cleveland.) Maybe this will be the year I go to the Newport Folk Festival. That sounds like a way better idea, and it's only $100 more expensive. Plus... er... getting to Rhode Island. But I can pretend it's a good idea.

We'll follow the Decembus out of the city but will end up stuck in one of Obama's homecoming roadblocks and then Rahm Emanuel will show up in his presidential sidekick outfit and shout at us in an attempt to brainwash us and...