Friday night w/ The Darkness
Lastnight Rick & I went to The Darkness show at Slims. These guys are *hilarious*, not to mention talented musically. If you haven't heard of them yet - you've got to go check out their videos right this second.
They're actually playing "I Believe In a Thing Called Love" a ton on LIVE105 and MTV these days and apparently they're playing for stadiums of like 15K people in Europe - so we were really lucky to see them at a small venue like Slims! The band is like this British metal band - sorta like Queen with the spandex & hittin the high notes - but they also can laugh at themselves. Too many musicians take themselves so seriously these days - so it's always refreshing to see a band that can make hilarious videos and have such a great time rockin out.
The show totally ROCKED and was PACKED at Slims. I got super lucky scoring tickets last week at the last minute after they were all sold out. I emailed a guy on CL and when he wrote back saying he was just looking for the highest bidder (which I'm not such a fan of), I simply offered him just a little over face value and said pretty, pretty please - hoping that somehow it would work.
Turns out the CL guy took a peek around my site and saw my Mars Volta review. He had wanted to go to that show too, and after reading my review & seeing my site he could tell I'd be someone who would appreciate this show. YAY!!! I was thrilled and so grateful. He had even flown down to see them in LA! Anyway - nice guy, we were so psyched to have the hookup.
The show itself was awesome! Rick and I are spoiled on our small venue front row spots we score at almost every show - and this one was so packed we couldn't get up much closer than probably 20 rows back, but it was still an awesome show. The lead, Justin had originally come out in some leather pants & some crazy tshirt - which I was bummed about cuz I was set on seeing the spandexy outfits :)
However, it was hilarious to find out this image of a flames tatoo on his pelvis is really his tatoo there!!
He also had one of his arm that was classic - his name with a lighting bolt... It was so Steve-O, Rick & I loved it. Luckily about 1/2 way through he changed into some of that good ol' spandex - aww yaa!! And then even changed one more time! I loved it & the crowd was so psyched - and Justin had all of our thumbs up in the air all at once which was hilarious and of course the classic lighter tribute. Totally ROCK. So much fun!
After that we decided to head over to Rick's friend's opening night for a new bar here in town. Its where that Jack's Elixer bar used to be (not sure of the new name). We went hoping to run into some friends of his and I thought we might see Sarah there, too, since a couple months back when Rick & Sarah met they realized they both knew "H"! And we did! She was there w/ Mat, Kathleen and some others. It was great to see her & rap w/ Mat about what we missed at the TV on the Radio show last Tuesday. Much fun.... it was a fantastic Friday night :)
