Such a sad day

sometime last night DPT gave birth to a very small undersized underdeveloped baby chinchilla. He died in my hands about 5:30 pm this afternoon. I knew him for less than 12 hours but have cried buckets. Yes- I am so hard and such a bitch - so hate me!

More concerts coming to Boston

So coming soon I have
Paolo Nutini at Paradise Rock Club Feb 3rd
Protokoll at Great Scott Feb 9th
Lily Allen at Axis Feb 18th - Wow this sold out within 3 days!
Rumor! Razorlight Middle East 25th Feb
MC Lars at The Middle East Upstairs Feb 27th
Bright Eyes at Somerville Theatre Feb 28th
The Young Knives at Great Scott March 4th - so psyched about this one
And of course
SXSW March 14th thru 18th
The View at T.T. the Bear's Place March 22nd - hey guys prove yourselves worth the hype
Cold War Kids, Tokyo Police Club at The Middle East Downstairs March 30th
Kaiser Chiefs at Avalon April 9th (grotty support acts not like the UK)
The Kooks at Paradise Rock Club May 13th

OK that should keep me busy - and I have tickets in hand for all but two of these!

Its been a while

January is always such a dreary month. It almost reminds me what life would be like if i gave up listening to bands half my age - and I don't like it!!!!!!!!!!
Its January 24th and SXSW still haven't given up their first list of bands yet. Rumors abound that this will happen next week. Oh please make it so - although looking at Bromheads Jacket's tour itinery it becomes clear they are not making it across here - sob sob. I really enjoyed seeing them at SXSW last year.

But my drought is ending and most spectacularly too.
This Saturday the 27th, we go to see Camera Obscura at the Paradise. I so want to love this band and tried to see as much as possible last time they came even though they clashed with the Rakes. This time no clash so lets hope I love this rather than prepare mental shopping lists, they are so mellow compared to most of my musical tastes.
Then on Sunday, we take off and fly to New York to see Paul Weller play 3 nights at Irving Plaza. On the 30th we get the chance to see Paolo Nutini play Conan O'Brien, i hope to heck it doesnt clash with the concert.

other SXSW bands

Also found
Every Move a Picture
Hazey Janes
Lily Allen
My Latest Novel
The Fratellis
only bands I like will be mentioned

Kay Hanley, TT's January 3rd 2007

So its 2007 and I start the year pretty soon with my first gig.
Kay, what can I say - 12 years ago I came across to Boston with one CD and hopefully an open mind. I tried to listen to WFNX and started hearing a local band called Letters To Cleo. I got tickets to the Best music Poll free concert and saw LTC play for the first time. Kay had an amazing band and I decided to keep an eye out for this band. WFNX continued to get worse and worse until I just couldnt listen any more but I kept listening to Letters to Cleo. LTC never made it despite Here and Now being played on Melrose Place, LTC broke up and Kay married her guitarist Mike and moved to LA. Kay makes her money writing soundtracks and music for tweenie morons now. Hey it pays the bills and the songs she wrote for Josie and The Pussycats werent that bad. But Kay is just a Dorchester girl and comes home twice a year to see her folks at Xmas and 4th of July. When she does she plays TTs and the old faithful pile in and see her play.
Kay is starting to look old, the makeup seemed thick as was the mascara (as ever) its a bit of life starting to hit us all I guess. The number of loser single males in the audience was also a little sick - my guess is Kay feels safer that her husband is in the band because some of these guys are plain weird. The guy in front of me spent the WHOLE concert taking pictures of Kay and only Kay as if noone else was on stage. And the photos were dreadful so one doubts his credentials as a 'professional' photographer and interprets his actions as a little skin crawlingly ick inducing.
Setlist
fastway
lullaby
think bad
copilot
cellars
mellie
it hurts
big star
galapagos
satellite
video
te-amo
encore
in clouds
turn (travis)

enjoyable show but I can see why Kay never hit the big time now.
so sad we all grow old.