November 15, 2004
All You Need is Hate
So two weeks ago Nick and I had 3 concerts in the city in a span of just 4 days and now I'm finally getting around to blogging about them.
On Thursday, Nick, Eric, and I went to Bimbo's 365 to see a British band called The Delgados. I hadn't heard of them before, but Nick sent me some mp3s and I liked what I heard so I decided to join him. There were two openenrs. The first was 3 guys from California, can't remember their name, pretty standard rock, nothing exciting. Next up was a guitarist who went by the name Crooked Fingers. Nick had seen him before when he was in London, and promised he was good. And indeed he was. He played at least 4 different guitars throughout his set, the acoustic stuff being the best, in my opinion. He also broke out a harmonica for at least one song. Then the Delgados came up and put on a good show. Easily my favorite song of theirs is a little upbeat number called All You Need Is Hate.
Update:
I forgot to mention that the bouncer lady was convinced the picture on my driver's license wasn't me. She asked me my birthday, zipcode, and I had to get out my college ID, which looked even less like me, and show a credit card. She never really acted like she wouldn't let me in, but she was certain the picture wasn't me. I don't know what the deal was, I've not had a problem before and I showed it to people at work and they were like, "that's pretty much you."