The Holter show was very good. It wasn't great, and I thought it might be transcendent, but it was very good and I'm glad I went. The opener was Jessica [something] and she came out with a violin and said she was going to be playing a 30 minute song. Fortunately, this was a crowd open to that sort of thing, and it turned out to be excellent. Sounded a lot like Grouper at her most ambient at times.
Sidehatch, I've been to so many shows that had people there I knew. My thing is to either bust up to the front of the crowd or skulk around in the back, which is usually where I am because it's hard to maintain a spit cup when people are jumping all over you.
