Un petit request-
If you advertise a show starting at 9, start it at the latest at 10:30 or
so. And, when you do start it, let people know.
So, I went to this show (quoted below) last night. Showed up early (8:50 or
so), as I always do, to find most stools and tables filled with yuppies and
hipsters. I can certainly be accused of hipsterness myself, but yuppies are
another issue. Anywho, I inquire with the bartender about the music tonight,
when it starts, blah blah - he doesn't know anything. No big deal. I have a
drink (a decent, tall Sapphire & tonic for only $6), lounge around and
people watch. Which gets dull quick, as yuppies aren't very fascinating.
Quotes of "He/she has such a good heart" and "So I was interviewing this
guy" abound. I have another drink. The music this whole while has obviously
been just the music the house plays in the background, and I can see the
musician setting up a mixer, keyboard, et cetera in front of the 'trippy'
visuals projected on the back wall. This makes me think it won't be long
until the music starts.
So, an hour passes. The place begins to fill to the brim with what is still
a yuppie/hipster (yupster?) meet market. The musicians setting up had
finished that and vanished. The music still seems to be the boring,
characterless, background 'loungy' electronic that the house had been
playing the whole time, though at one point it seemed someone raised the
volume. At about 11, I get tired of the noxious crowd and boring music, and
decide to leave. I use the restroom first, and upon exiting and proceeding
toward the front, I realize the "show" had started a great while ago, and
that increase in volume I heard was a DJ beginning to spin boring, shitty
techno - it most certainly wasn't IDM. The DJ himself looked quite bored and
disinterested (I guess that's the way to seem cool these days, is to feign
disinterest).
It would have been helpful if the musicians or promoters had announced the
show's beginning, welcomed the audience and all that, that way when the
shitty was techno was just beginning, I would have known to leave then
instead of waiting another 45 minutes in vain for the artists to take the
stage.
I.W.
P.S. - to the person who posted the Hefty Records Event that was last night
at Sonoteque - please include the city in the subject line. If I had seen
that one flagged as in Chicago when I was quickly checking my email to see
if there were any shows yesterday, I would have been there instead.
On 10/27/05, John Goelzer <johng@engberganderson.com> wrote:
quoted 27 lines Signaldrift live pa (Wobblyhead, Consumers, Audraglint)
>
> Signaldrift live pa (Wobblyhead, Consumers, Audraglint)
> Brian Foote dj (Nudge, Omco, Audraglint)
> Reverent Robert Sinewave dj (Consumers, Meiotic)
> BTS.WRKNG dj (Wobblyhead, WMSE 91.7FM)
>
> Rodan . 1530 N. Milwaukee Ave.
> Thursday, October 27 . 9:00pm
> 21 and over . NO COVER
>
> It's a kinda-sorta release party for Signaldrift's new Set Design
> full-length on Consumers. We'd love to see you!
>
> http://www.rodan.ws/
> http://www.consumerslabel.net/
> http://www.wobblyhead.com/
> http://www.audraglint.com/
> http://www.outwardmusic.com/
> http://www.meioticpromotions.com/
> http://www.myspace.com/btswrkng
> http://www.wmse.org/
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