I heart The Blow
Khaela of The Blow
Originally uploaded by Willo.
The Blow opened for Of Montreal on Friday night (the only show she opened for, out of the 4 total they played around town), but we lagged on buying tickets and next thing we knew it was totally sold out.
But, we're hard core ;), so we went out front & tried our luck at finding night of tix. Talk about luck, we ended up meeting a guy who needed to get rid of dinner tickets, and sold his two extras to us for $50 total! (originally $40/each + the fees). I was SO stoked! Plus, that meant we actually got sweet balcony reserved seating, and dinner - which was actually really really good! sweet!
The Blow is basically Khaela, who you see above, and the tracks she sings along to are mixed by a guy named Yacht (but apparently since it's already been produced, he gets to stay at home). Regardless, she was very entertaining all on her own.
Her performance was kind of like a story... which at one point I was a little bit like 'uh, less talk, more rock' because I love her beautiful (singing) voice so much... but all in all I was in heaven seeing her live finally.
'Hey Boy' is one of my favorite songs, and it was so great live! yay! Go listen to it here.
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Of Montreal was good, but honestly I can't get into them live as much as I would like. I've seen them before and had the same feeling. I think there's some kind of disconnect for me in their affected performance... it makes me want to ask them "Of Montreal, who are you!?" I guess I don't get it. Love them on CD though!
