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If you read my most recent column in CL: Waving your Freak Flag Proudly at Snug Harbor’s Shiprocked, then you know about the pirate ship of Plaza-Midwood — Snug Harbor and its Thursday Shiprocked. Well, since it’s one of those, “you have to see it” kind of events, I have provided the visuals to go with my column.
The Shiprocked! Crew photo by Frank Balthazar. (more…)
Live Review: CarnEvil (Photo gallery after the jump)
Amos’ Southend
Oct. 31 & Nov. 1, 2008
The Deal: Annual festival expands to two days as costumed-partiers, bands, acts and oddities fill Amos’ Southend.
The Good: If you think “variety is the spice of life,” you should have been at CarnEvil this weekend. It was one of those you-name-it-they’ve-got-it events. Slutty costumes? Of course! Midget porn? Yep! S&M booth? That too! Fire dancers? Why not! Cage dancing? Uh-huh! A drum circle? You got it! And a whole bunch of music on top of that. (more…)
JJ Grey & Mofro w/ Hill Country Revue
Neighborhood Theatre
Oct. 30, 2008
The Deal: JJ Grey & Mofro bring their porch-rockin’ swamp blues to the Neighborhood Theatre. (more…)
The first concert I ever went to in my life was New Kids on the Block and Tiffany. For my ninth birthday my mom got me front-row tickets and a Joey McIntyre t-shirt — that I of course wore to the concert. But all I really remember is the older, teenager sitting next to me that fainted on me because Donnie made eye contact with her. 17 years later, I found myself attending a NKOTB concert … and girls are still fainting.
I went to their concert last night at Time Warner Cable Arena to be nostalgic, but quickly learned that’s hard to do when you don’t remember most of the songs. I felt like my row was the only ones that didn’t know the lyrics. The arena was packed from the floor to the upper level with women my age or older wearing buttons, t-shirts that read “Property of Donnie,” holding posters and singing along. And I thought I was obsessed! I grew out of my Joey shirt, replaced my posters with Jewel ones, and retired my twin NKOTB bed set that I had on my bunk bed.
I couldn’t help but wonder — Where did all these New Kids on the Block fans come from?
There were so many girls there, the men’s restrooms were converted into lady’s rooms. (more…)
Get Out and Vote ‘08 w/ Beastie Boys, Sheryl Crow, Santogold
Amos’ Southend
Dec. 27, 2008
The Deal: Beastie Boys, Sheryl Crow and Santogold play short sets, urge sold-out Amos’ to “Get Out and Vote.” (more…)
Mediaeval Baebes
Tremont Music Hall
Oct. 23, 2008
The Deal: The British sextet known as Mediaeval Baebes performed a set of soothing medieval era inspired tunes a Tremont Music Hall. (more…)
A different kind of circus has come to town… As in TRACES, which is now showing at Blumenthal’s McGlohon Theatre at Spirit Square. Think Cirque du Soleil meets Stomp meets Rent.
I actually went to see TRACES with a girl who’s been to Cirque du Soleil in Vegas and claims that TRACES was in fact better due to the real life applications of the performances. The cast consists of some of the most athletic and acrobatic actors in theater. At one point, I wondered if the actors even had bones. I thought I was flexible because I can do the splits, but these actors were tumbling, twisting, leaping, climbing, spinning and extending their bodies in ways I didn’t know a human body could move. And they did so using basketballs, skateboards, pianos, chairs, rings… and a catapult. (more…)
Flagship Brigade with Cannon Hill and Jimmy Brown
Visulite Theatre
Oct. 19, 2008
Jimmy Brown
The Deal: The flyer for the show said, “If you love music like The Beatles, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Sigur Ros then you must come to this concert. Flagship Brigade/ Cannon Hill/ Jimmy Brown.” It all went down on Oct. 19 at Visulite Theatre. (more…)
The Duhks with The Hackensaw Boys and Kellin Watson
Neighborhood Theatre
Sept. 18, 2008
Kellin Watson
The Deal: The Duhks, a Winnipeg-based band known for its worldly music styles performed at Neighborhood Theatre with the Charlottesville-based group The Hackensaw Boys and Asheville local Kellin Watson. (more…)
James Taylor
Ovens Auditorium
Sept. 19, 2008
The Deal: Singer James Taylor performed a free concert in Charlotte on Sunday in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The Change We Need, North Carolina Concert Tour was paid for by Obama for America. (more…)
