{"id":306,"date":"2007-02-08T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=306"},"modified":"2015-07-10T21:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T02:00:45","slug":"in_concert_came","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/02\/in_concert_came.html","title":{"rendered":"In Concert: Camera Obscura and The Essex Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opening band <strong>The Essex Green <\/strong>was great: boppy, male\/female vocal switches, goofy lyrics, really filling the room with fun, albeit from an almost folky perspective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Camera Obscura <\/strong>sounded pretty, but man what a downer.  Played (literally) only three upbeat songs.  The very first one (Let&#8217;s get out of this country&#8230;) and the very last two.  Midway through, the lead commented &#8220;Hmmm, didn&#8217;t quite realize when we were writing up the set list that we were playing all our slowest songs back to back&#8230;&#8221;  Gee, that would&#8217;ve been a great time to call an audible and rock one out, but no such luck.  Perhaps it wasn&#8217;t an intimate-enough venue for them; I imagine this would have been a great show to listen to somewhere like, for example, Joe&#8217;s Pub.  But in a standing-only BIG drafty venue full of people looking for something to bring them up (or in out of the cold) it wasn&#8217;t great.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note to self:<\/em>  Logan Square Auditorium: no easy transit options to get home and not easy to find a cab afterward. Maybe don&#8217;t go there when it&#8217;s below zero out next time!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brainylady.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/ready-to-be-heartbroken.html\">Alison liked them better <\/a> at the show she saw, if you want to read a more positive review, and FYI they did the same &#8216;you can call me Al&#8217; stuff at the show I was at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening band The Essex Green was great: boppy, male\/female vocal switches, goofy lyrics, really filling the room with fun, albeit from an almost folky perspective. Camera Obscura sounded pretty, but man what a downer. Played (literally) only three upbeat songs. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/02\/in_concert_came.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}