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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: nkotb on June 21, 2004, 11:22:00 am
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Anyone heading over to Iota tonight?
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Yes. Can't wait. I might even be selfish and go both nights.
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I'm going tomorrow so I can go to Fort Reno tonight.
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i'm going to check out the show tomorrow night...who's at fort reno tonight?
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BLACKIE KNIGHT
THE INTERSECTION
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Looking forward to the show tonight.
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i was gonna go tonight, but i just found out that i have to work, so tomorrow i'll be there.
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Uhhh, or not, as it sold out WAY before I thought it would. So tomorrow, I guess I'll try again. What a bummer...
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For everyone planning on going tonight, last night sold out at about 8.
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Figures. I got there at about 8:10. What a crock.
Does anyone know if you can buy a ticket at the door for someone that will show up later? My girlfriend might not be able to make it until 9-ish tonight, and is pretty bummed about missing it last night.
Originally posted by Taster:
For everyone planning on going tonight, last night sold out at about 8.
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Some people tried last night, and Iota wouldn't let them. Basically you go there, you pay and get your hand stamped and you walk in, so there is no actual ticket.
Originally posted by nkotbie:
Figures. I got there at about 8:10. What a crock.
Does anyone know if you can buy a ticket at the door for someone that will show up later? My girlfriend might not be able to make it until 9-ish tonight, and is pretty bummed about missing it last night.
Originally posted by Taster:
For everyone planning on going tonight, last night sold out at about 8.
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Might wanna call. If they didn't do it last night, they might not tonight. However, last week at Ron Sexsmith they allowed someone to do this.
Originally posted by nkotbie:
Figures. I got there at about 8:10. What a crock.
Does anyone know if you can buy a ticket at the door for someone that will show up later? My girlfriend might not be able to make it until 9-ish tonight, and is pretty bummed about missing it last night.
Originally posted by Taster:
For everyone planning on going tonight, last night sold out at about 8.
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Good show, Sam Beam was in great voice.
But it was extremely quiet - I found myself wishing for a little more amplification. Of course it's quiet music, but if someone near you whispered it practically drowned out the music. (Or in my case, a girl talking pretty loudly...) It was hard to lose yourself in it at that volume.
So I'd recommend trying to get a spot right in front if you're going tonight.
Somehow on the second night of the tour they had no XL t-shirts, even though XL was listed on the merch card.
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Originally posted by Sugartastic Tee Silk:
[QB] Might wanna call. If they didn't do it last night, they might not tonight. However, last week at Ron Sexsmith they allowed someone to do this. Originally posted by nkotbie:
[qb] Figures. I got there at about 8:10. What a crock.
Does anyone know if you can buy a ticket at the door for someone that will show up later? My girlfriend might not be able to make it until 9-ish tonight, and is pretty bummed about missing it last night.
>>>>> I have never heard of any presales ever! And I am there quite a bit. Gotta get there early.
I'll be there early this weekend as Dave Alvin begins a 2 night stand......
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Originally posted by The O' Rotten Factor:
Originally posted by Sugartastic Tee Silk:
[QB] Might wanna call. If they didn't do it last night, they might not tonight. However, last week at Ron Sexsmith they allowed someone to do this. Originally posted by nkotbie:
[qb] Figures. I got there at about 8:10. What a crock.
Does anyone know if you can buy a ticket at the door for someone that will show up later? My girlfriend might not be able to make it until 9-ish tonight, and is pretty bummed about missing it last night.
>>>>> I have never heard of any presales ever! And I am there quite a bit. Gotta get there early.
I'll be there early this weekend as Dave Alvin begins a 2 night stand...... [/b]
Yup. I worked merch and some guy bought a "ticket" or I guess it could be called a "spot", for some woman who didn't arrive until later. (She talked the whole time and on her cell phone, so I remembered her!). Anyhow, I noted someone else did it last year too. While their friend was parking, a guy bought his friend a "ticket" then met her at the door. I dunno, I'm sure it's few and far b/w and not for shows they have already have high demand for. It wouldn't be something I'd ask for unless it was a rare occurence.
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Sorry to keep this going, but I had no luck with calling Iota. Do they let you come and go from the space? I was thinking of having my girlfriend come with me when I paid the cover, and then her coming back when she was able. Do you think that would fly?
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Originally posted by nkotbie:
Sorry to keep this going, but I had no luck with calling Iota. Do they let you come and go from the space? I was thinking of having my girlfriend come with me when I paid the cover, and then her coming back when she was able. Do you think that would fly?
Yes. But it depends when you go. Sometimes there is nobody at the door until just before showtime.
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Originally posted by nkotbie:
Sorry to keep this going, but I had no luck with calling Iota. Do they let you come and go from the space? I was thinking of having my girlfriend come with me when I paid the cover, and then her coming back when she was able. Do you think that would fly?
I know, getting someone to pick up the phone there can be tough. Try mid- to late afternoon if ya feel like it. Anyhow, yes, if you pay, check-in and get a stamp, you can return. If someone isn't there right before show, it's either b/c it's too early for them to be posted at the front, or they are in the restaurant and bar stamping people attending the show. If early enough, go to the bar inside and get stamped. Oh hell, just cut off your girlfriend's hand. ;)
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They try to have someone posted at least an hour before showtime to sell "tickets".
You can definitely go get stamped around 7 and then get dinner or whatever and come back to see the headliner at 10.
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Great. Thanks for the advice, everyone. Except that whole "hand cutting off" thing. Somehow I'm guessing that wouldn't fly...
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Beautiful set last night. And the handstamping worked perfectly. Thanks again for the advice.
I'll tell you, it was well worth the $12 for that amazing rendition of "Southern Anthem" and "Dead Man's Will." Man, something about his voice breaks my heart.
And what's up with Cass McCombs these days? When I saw them before, it was a four piece that played tired nu-new wave, and a singer that tried his damnedest to be sensitive and important (uh, "AIDS in Africa?"). Now, it was a five piece with only the singer remaining, and at least two of the backing band were from the Oxes. Very odd, all things considered. Still, I enjoyed them about 100 times more than when they opened for the Shins.
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washingtonpost.com
Iron & Wine: The Quiet Storm
Wednesday, June 23, 2004; Page C07
Quietness is a virtue overlooked by music makers of all stripes and fashions. The tendency is to overplay, overfill, oversing. Not so for Sam Beam, the Florida-based singer whose voice rarely registers above a whisper and at its loudest might qualify as a murmur. Beam, who records under the band name Iron & Wine, brought a few musicians to a sold-out Iota on Monday night, the first of two nights for him at the club, but you had to pay close attention to hear the contributions of bassist EJ Holowicki, guitarist Patrick McKinney and drummer Jonathan Bradley.
For a few songs the trio left the stage to let Beam play alone, and the difference in the overall sound was almost imperceptible. Almost, but not entirely. For Beam's minimalist indie-blues, a cross between Elliott Smith and Mississippi John Hurt, the players added just the right sort of meticulous accompaniment required for such delicate compositions as "Radio War" and a cover of Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning."
With his close-cropped hair, bushy beard and deep-set eyes, Beam looks a bit like a haunted figure from a Civil War photograph, and his songs, too, feel of another time. Choosing material from his two CDs, this year's "Our Endless Numbered Days" and 2002's "The Creek Drank the Cradle," Beam seemed to lose himself in eerie tales of death, southern gothic devotion and even primitive spirituality.
For the beautiful and disturbing "Naked as We Came," Beam barely breathed the lines "One of us will die inside these arms / Eyes wide open, naked as we came / One will spread our ashes round the yard." You could scream out lyrics like that and get your point across. But having to strain to hear Beam somehow made the words sound that much more despondent, vexing and lovely.
-- Joe Heim