sulawesigirl4
Rock n' Roll Doggie ALL ACCESS
Ok, here?s the story of zonelistener, Ali Rose, and sula?s trip to see Elbow and Doves. Ali Rose and I had gone to see Pete Yorn play at First Avenue a few months ago and this band called ?Elbow? was scheduled to open for him. ?Who the hell is Elbow?? we asked each other. We snagged spots against the front railing and lo and behold, when the opening band came out, they were absolutely FANTASTIC!!! (Pete Yorn was fun too, but not the object of this story) So, from that experience, we both went out and bought Elbow?s CD ?Asleep in the Back? in the weeks following the show. Then we heard that they were coming back to town to support Doves on their tour, and having by this time fallen quite hard for their tunes?we purchased tickets for the show. Zoney and his significant other were also planning to go to the show as they were big Doves fans.
Fast forward to last night. Zone?s sig other became just an other so he had the dubious pleasure of hanging out with Ali Rose and I (lucky him!) for the evening. Ali had driven to the show and zone picked me up at my place?we were cutting it a bit close and had to literally run from the parking garage to the venue through the rain. (not real fun in sandals, let me tell you!) Thankfully, Ali had gotten a nice position on the corner of the stage front, and we made it with a few minutes to spare before Elbow came on. I had slipped my handy little Olympus camera in my purse and had come prepared with 2 rolls of 800 speed film, but didn?t want to get in trouble for taking photos so was trying to think of the most surreptitious way to go about it. I love my little camera tho, because it?s small and compact and has one of the biggest zooms I?ve seen on a camera of its size, so I can see close without having to get close. Anyways, turned off the flash so as not to attract attention and spent the first bit of Elbow?s set wandering the crowd, trying to see if I could get a better view (There was a guy with a big head right in front of me and our spot on the edge of the crowd was nervously close to the security guys). I ended up tapping this huge 6?6 guy on the shoulder and asking him if he could take a photo for me over the heads of the crowd. Lol. He did so, and then I figured what the hell, might as well go rejoin zone and ali and see if I can just be sneaky and take pics from our spot. So that is what I did. Took a whole roll of ?em. I expect only a handful will come out tho because of low lighting, my reluctance to use the flash, etc. But I digress.
Elbow played a shorter set than I would have liked. 8 or 9 songs I believe. My memory is hazy, but I know they opened with Any Day Now, and also did Red, Bitten by the Tailfly, Newborn, and some others and finished off with the absolutely sublime Scattered Black and Whites. The audience really was into it and when Guy asked if anyone had seen Elbow before, there was a significant amount of noise, so I believe that there were more people like Ali and I who had seen them with Pete earlier.
Ok, now for the part where I tell you how sweet of a guy zonelistener is. When Doves took the stage, they came right past us (as we were on the front corner) and zoney had whipped out his cell phone, called his friend (formerly sig other)?s answering machine and got the lead singer to yell ?Hi [insert name]!? into the phone as they got onstage! Lmao. Is that not nice? Everyone say ?Awwwwww!?
I had not yet heard any stuff by Doves but was pretty sure I was going to like them, based on things I?ve heard from people here whose musical judgement is very sound (yes, meg, that?s YOU!) and I must say, I can?t wait to get their CDs now. They were really really exceptional. The crowd was totally into them and it was a great atmosphere. Jimi, who did most of the vocals and bass, was a bit ?pissed? to use his phrase (I believe that translates to ?drunk? in American) and had a good bit of fun good-naturedly heckling the crowd. ?You guys have a f***in? wrestler for a governor???? Aren?t all you people of voting age??? What the hell were you thinking?? lmao. I don?t know any of their music, so I can?t make a setlist report except to say that it rocked and the song that does stick out in my mind was Catch the Sun. They closed off the set with a song that Jimi dedicated to ?Jesse the Body Ventura? which was a really clubby dance kind of song. Actually, that was one of the funnest parts of the evening as everyone started dancing and grooving to the music in a very uninhibited sort of way.
(to be continued)
Fast forward to last night. Zone?s sig other became just an other so he had the dubious pleasure of hanging out with Ali Rose and I (lucky him!) for the evening. Ali had driven to the show and zone picked me up at my place?we were cutting it a bit close and had to literally run from the parking garage to the venue through the rain. (not real fun in sandals, let me tell you!) Thankfully, Ali had gotten a nice position on the corner of the stage front, and we made it with a few minutes to spare before Elbow came on. I had slipped my handy little Olympus camera in my purse and had come prepared with 2 rolls of 800 speed film, but didn?t want to get in trouble for taking photos so was trying to think of the most surreptitious way to go about it. I love my little camera tho, because it?s small and compact and has one of the biggest zooms I?ve seen on a camera of its size, so I can see close without having to get close. Anyways, turned off the flash so as not to attract attention and spent the first bit of Elbow?s set wandering the crowd, trying to see if I could get a better view (There was a guy with a big head right in front of me and our spot on the edge of the crowd was nervously close to the security guys). I ended up tapping this huge 6?6 guy on the shoulder and asking him if he could take a photo for me over the heads of the crowd. Lol. He did so, and then I figured what the hell, might as well go rejoin zone and ali and see if I can just be sneaky and take pics from our spot. So that is what I did. Took a whole roll of ?em. I expect only a handful will come out tho because of low lighting, my reluctance to use the flash, etc. But I digress.
Elbow played a shorter set than I would have liked. 8 or 9 songs I believe. My memory is hazy, but I know they opened with Any Day Now, and also did Red, Bitten by the Tailfly, Newborn, and some others and finished off with the absolutely sublime Scattered Black and Whites. The audience really was into it and when Guy asked if anyone had seen Elbow before, there was a significant amount of noise, so I believe that there were more people like Ali and I who had seen them with Pete earlier.
Ok, now for the part where I tell you how sweet of a guy zonelistener is. When Doves took the stage, they came right past us (as we were on the front corner) and zoney had whipped out his cell phone, called his friend (formerly sig other)?s answering machine and got the lead singer to yell ?Hi [insert name]!? into the phone as they got onstage! Lmao. Is that not nice? Everyone say ?Awwwwww!?
I had not yet heard any stuff by Doves but was pretty sure I was going to like them, based on things I?ve heard from people here whose musical judgement is very sound (yes, meg, that?s YOU!) and I must say, I can?t wait to get their CDs now. They were really really exceptional. The crowd was totally into them and it was a great atmosphere. Jimi, who did most of the vocals and bass, was a bit ?pissed? to use his phrase (I believe that translates to ?drunk? in American) and had a good bit of fun good-naturedly heckling the crowd. ?You guys have a f***in? wrestler for a governor???? Aren?t all you people of voting age??? What the hell were you thinking?? lmao. I don?t know any of their music, so I can?t make a setlist report except to say that it rocked and the song that does stick out in my mind was Catch the Sun. They closed off the set with a song that Jimi dedicated to ?Jesse the Body Ventura? which was a really clubby dance kind of song. Actually, that was one of the funnest parts of the evening as everyone started dancing and grooving to the music in a very uninhibited sort of way.
(to be continued)