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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: frippy on March 20, 2013, 10:38:11 am
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Quick question- going to Nick Cave tonight. Can I take Metro home? Drove last time and it was a nightmare.
Thanks,
frippy
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guess it would depend on what time the show ends... as long as it's before the last train, taking metro is pretty easy. there is a covered walkway between the grosvenor-strathmore metro station (red line) and the venue.
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you're good, will be over by 11 or so?
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Strathmore website says the show will last 150 minutes, from an 8:00 start.. that's 10:30. Who knows how accurate that is though. Last train is 11:42.
I'm going to try the Metro as well. We shall see.
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Thanks for the info!
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Why was it a nightmare last time? I thought it was okay, but my husband knows the back roads from columbia.
Going tonight too! Can't wait.
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I used Metro last time I went to a show there. It couldn't have been easier. There's a covered walkway and everything. All you do is take the elevator in the parking garage up a few levels and there's a bridge that goes over the road in order to get you into the Strathmore. If driving seems unattractive, Metro will be much easier.
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Nightmare because of traffic, bad weather and I lived in Fredericksburg, VA when we last went to a show there. Now I am in Arlington so I am hoping the Metro commute will be okay. 8)
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most shows there end between 10:30 and 11.
not really my favorite place to see a rock show.
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Gotcha. I love going to shows there! It's so pretty and the sound is really good.
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Just scored orchestra row BB dead center seats on stubhub for $50..there's a lot of tickets there below face value, starting at $35.
I'm stoked. Thought I was going to miss this. The streak lives.
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are you telling me we have a skippy . . . and now a frippy in here?
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are you telling me we have a skippy . . . and now a frippy in here?
I guess so. 8)
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a "slappy" too
are you telling me we have a skippy . . . and now a frippy in here?
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if you can afford the prices for this show you can afford to take a cab home if you miss the metro.
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if you can afford the prices for this show you can afford to take a cab home if you miss the metro.
True. However, since I have only been to Strathmore once and haven't caught Metro from there I just wanted to make sure my transportation plans were okay. Thanks everyone for the info; can't wait for tonight.
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Prices on stubhub now down to under $20...even orchestra center seats are $35.
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Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap :-[
I forgot this was tonite so I made plans. Would have bought off stubhub.
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hey atomicfront . . . just curious, if said person would have bought his ticket off of stubhubb for thirty five dollars, like these other fine peoples are suggesting, does the same "ride in a cab you bum" rule still apply?
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at this point you could afford the ticket but not the cab!
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show was incredible
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One of the best shows I've ever seen ever.
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I thought they were great. Still not crazy about the new album. Strathmore is still a weird venue for a show like that, it helped a lot that Nick invited everyone down to the front.
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That did really help. There was only one other person in front of me and it was very intimidating when he came to the middle and sang right to my face. I was happy to have other people in front!!!
Drunk/on x girl next to us was incredibly annoying, but whatever.
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That was one of the best shows I can recall seeing.... to me superior to the 2008 show at the 930...I think the bad seeds benefited from the venue's larger stage and from being able to play to a bigger crowd
I wasn't entirely sure until I got home and checked but that was Barry Adamson and Ed Kuepper up there... Adamson recently rejoined the Bad Seeds and Kuepper tours with them (he was in the Saints which put out a couple of killer punk records in the late 70s)
I thought Jubilee Street was a high point in a night of high points...I though the new stuff worked really well...Higgs Boson Blues is great.
Warren Ellis was thankfully much more subdued than at the 2008 show where he'd almost shared the focus with Nick... at this show he was still the band leader but he didn't really get up front too much and didn't take too many solos etc.
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but not as incredible as Thao with the get down stay down ;D
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but not as incredible as Thao with the get down stay down ;D
Sorry, Nick Cave was better. Definitely top 5 shows ever.
I love Warren Ellis. Have seen him in all his bands now!
I just have no words for how amazing that was last night.
Jubilee Street sounds SO GOOD live. Stagger Lee, Into My Arms....just all of it. Incredible.
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Show was great and the commute to and from worked out nicely. Thanks again everyone for the info.
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Venue was very easy to get to and from coming from falls church. Parking no prob, getting in and out no prob.
Not my first choice of places to see him but didn't really matter...my seats were middle orchestra and once it became the thing to do I just went up front and spent most of the show there.
I've seen Nick maybe 6 times now between Bad Seeds and Grinderman. I was prepared to see a good show but I don't think I've ever seen him work that hard on stage. Amazing set. Probably the best I've seen from him. My friend was seeing him for the first time, and was barely familiar with his music. He was completely blown away. From Her to Eternity was maybe the high point for me, but hard to say because the set was so fucking solid.
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Where were you? I was right next to the drunk girl in the center...
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Where were you? I was right next to the drunk girl in the center...
I was off to the right.
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Kudo to all who went. Really hate that I missed this.
Have neither seen him nor attended a show there. This would have been perfect.
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but not as incredible as Thao with the get down stay down ;D
Having seen both artists I would say Thao is lot more exciting. Of course Thao is pretty incredible. Hard to compete with her.
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nm
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to be fair to Nick I mostly just know his Birthday Party stuff. Really haven't kept up with his solo career. Only ever had two of his solo albums. Thao on the other hand...
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You are missing out. I watched some Thao on youtube. Super cute, but nowhere near the show that was last night.
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Were you the one that he basically dragged up from the second row to the front? I thought that the lady on the balcony was particularly annoying, but that is just a small quibble.
Highlight for me was, as always, Mercy Seat, but I just never get tired of that song. I was really surprised at how well Love Letters and God is in the House came off.
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Were you the one that he basically dragged up from the second row to the front? I thought that the lady on the balcony was particularly annoying, but that is just a small quibble.
Highlight for me was, as always, Mercy Seat, but I just never get tired of that song. I was really surprised at how well Love Letters and God is in the House came off.
was the lady the one yelling during stagger lee?
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yes, that would be the one on the balcony. Nick dealt with it pretty well all things considered, he did laugh once at her.
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I seriously thought that woman was going to throw her clothes onstage.
I was next to the drunk girl who asked him if he wanted a shot (as she was drinking from a thermos the whole time).
Next to the girls he dragged to the front row...
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My husband and I were slightly scared at first of being that close, so he probably didn't want to scare us...He is imposing! (in a good way)
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I was more worried she was going to fall over the balcony. My favorite part about her was when he asked about her husband and she started pointing to some poor guy.
I didn't notice the woman with the thermos, but I was on the right aisle.
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Nick Cave -midshow- made some comment about how he'd just realized they weren't at the 930..
when was the last time Cave played the DC area and it wasn't at the 930, anyone know?