Death Cab For Cutie

This makes me yearn for the olden days before I moved here. I was 10 minutes from the Backstage and other music venues. I'd hop in my car and go, at times multiple times a week, sometimes setting up a video camera or freezing to death at 2 am or falling asleep.

Often the bands were bad, but live music is great anyway. It usually entailed a lot of standing on the sidewalk or in the alley waiting for, say, the Dandy Warhols to play the Midnight Sun in front of about 30 people. It also usually entailed standing around for ages* in front of a locked door on faith and hearsay, since often the person with the key would be late. There were usually several festivals a year - maybe YoY0-a-GoGo, maybe the Strange Music festival.

Once I got home from a Wa He Lut excursion long after midnight and got straight in my car and went to catch the last songs of Frank Black and the Catholics. Sometimes I went with the Monsters or others but mostly alone as other people don't usually do things. Themz were the days.

*hard cheese in January with no heat waiting inside the building, either.