Comments on: the “[big indie band] in [ridiculous venue]” meme http://blog.ipickmynose.com/2007/06/05/big-indie-band-in-ridiculous-venue/ a mostly indie music blog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:01:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dave http://blog.ipickmynose.com/2007/06/05/big-indie-band-in-ridiculous-venue/comment-page-1/#comment-12252 dave Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:33:48 +0000 http://blog.ipickmynose.com/2007/06/05/big-indie-band-in-ridiculous-venue/#comment-12252 their not necessarily a "big indie band" but i saw the oneAMradio at "the solar house", basically a townhouse where the upstairs was used solely for shows. there were like 15 people, it was pretty cool. their not necessarily a “big indie band” but i saw the oneAMradio at “the solar house”, basically a townhouse where the upstairs was used solely for shows. there were like 15 people, it was pretty cool.

]]> By: libs http://blog.ipickmynose.com/2007/06/05/big-indie-band-in-ridiculous-venue/comment-page-1/#comment-12251 libs Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:46:30 +0000 http://blog.ipickmynose.com/2007/06/05/big-indie-band-in-ridiculous-venue/#comment-12251 I saw the Violent Femmes and the Flaming Lips play a high school 'mixer' in a tiny gym of an all girls boarding school. The big controversy was whether or not the VF were going to play Add It Up since there is a 'bad word' in that song. They did. We all squealed with delight while the chaperons scrambled to pull the plug. I also saw the Sloppy Joannes play the Rodeo Bar on Halloween. They were dressed as men and went completely undetected as far as I could tell. No one in the loud, drunk, rowdy, costumed crowd seemed to know that they were listening to Norah Jones with a fake mustache (she really did look like a dude!) I saw the Violent Femmes and the Flaming Lips play a high school ‘mixer’ in a tiny gym of an all girls boarding school. The big controversy was whether or not the VF were going to play Add It Up since there is a ‘bad word’ in that song. They did. We all squealed with delight while the chaperons scrambled to pull the plug.

I also saw the Sloppy Joannes play the Rodeo Bar on Halloween. They were dressed as men and went completely undetected as far as I could tell. No one in the loud, drunk, rowdy, costumed crowd seemed to know that they were listening to Norah Jones with a fake mustache (she really did look like a dude!)

]]> By: scott http://blog.ipickmynose.com/2007/06/05/big-indie-band-in-ridiculous-venue/comment-page-1/#comment-12248 scott Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:53:26 +0000 http://blog.ipickmynose.com/2007/06/05/big-indie-band-in-ridiculous-venue/#comment-12248 i saw phil elverum, jason anderson, and their norwegian driver in their vegetable-oil fueled tour bus under the freeway (i think it was 80) in san francisco last fall. it was after a show at ATA, a tiny venue in mission. it was around midnight and it was raining, but there were lots of us packed in and the walls were wooden (!) and phil's drawings were hanging everywhere, so it felt like being in a tiny, warm cabin on some remote mountain, but one with a giant freeway overhead. and with a norwegian guy on drugs singing about the evils of the fashion industry. jason anderson made all the hipster kids do a sing-along as he covered the cars and greenday. he hugged lots of people at the end. phil did his phil-with-acoustic-guitar thing. i saw phil elverum, jason anderson, and their norwegian driver in their vegetable-oil fueled tour bus under the freeway (i think it was 80) in san francisco last fall. it was after a show at ATA, a tiny venue in mission. it was around midnight and it was raining, but there were lots of us packed in and the walls were wooden (!) and phil’s drawings were hanging everywhere, so it felt like being in a tiny, warm cabin on some remote mountain, but one with a giant freeway overhead. and with a norwegian guy on drugs singing about the evils of the fashion industry. jason anderson made all the hipster kids do a sing-along as he covered the cars and greenday. he hugged lots of people at the end. phil did his phil-with-acoustic-guitar thing.

]]> By: whitney http://blog.ipickmynose.com/2007/06/05/big-indie-band-in-ridiculous-venue/comment-page-1/#comment-12247 whitney Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:59:08 +0000 http://blog.ipickmynose.com/2007/06/05/big-indie-band-in-ridiculous-venue/#comment-12247 Phil Elverum at Stanford's coffee house in '99 was tops. Phil Elverum at Stanford’s coffee house in ‘99 was tops.

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