Their show on Friday night at Mavericks was amazing.  Two days later, I’m still smiling as I think back on it.  They played all the classics (with the exception of Run and Hide) as well as a bunch more that I wasn’t expecting.  All told, I think there were about 20 songs, 4 of which were played as an encore.

The crowd?  Insane.  Virtually everyone in the crowd was singing along to EVERY song, including myself which (if you know me) is as far out of character as I can get.  It was phenomenal - if Danny stalled the crowd was there to back him up 100%.  I’ve never seen a crowd that engaged before, it was absolutely wonderful.  Early on in the show someone shouted out “new album!”  Cagily, Danny responded “well, this would be the first step wouldn’t it.”  I could almost cry.

The last few months of my life has sucked.  Stress on every front, biting off more than I can chew and over committing myself on what seems like a daily basis, no vacation to speak of and that’s all before the death of my mother and the death of my little girl… it’s sucked.  Friday was the first real, unqualified, unencumbered joy I’ve had in a very long time.  I’m pretty sure I had a shit eating grin on my face the entire night.

Well, at least during those times where I wasn’t singing my brains out

Edit: It appears David Byrne will be playing in Montreal on October 30th at the Metropolis. Tickets are on sale here.

Ken Tizzard is not really surprised that word is getting out … Winnipeg’s Watchmen are back together and will be at the Horseshoe on September 26.

Ken Tizzard was the bassist for The Watchmen.

I am so excited. I don’t even know what to do with myself. If September 26th wasn’t our wedding day I would fly to Winnipeg to see them.

Update: I am going to cry. It’s for one night only.

It wasn’t all good  though. Once again we had to deal with That Drunk.  You know, the one who slops beer on you and elbows you in the head?  Yeah, him.  He was sitting directly behind Lexy and was knocking her chair around quite a bit.  He must’ve realized what he was doing because he eventually leaned over and put both his arms around her neck.  Apparently he was apologizing to her but of course, to me, I see a drunk man strangling my wife-to-be, so I haul off and smack him and push him off of her.  He gets this “oh shit, I’m so drunk and sorry look” about him and backs off.  From here on out I’m watching him out of the corner of my eye waiting for it to happen again, but I think he decided to bug his neighbor instead.

Still, an excellent show and I’ll definitely go see them again if they’re close by.