Troika Music Festival at Joe & Jo's Downtown

grady grady at ibiblio.org
Thu Aug 25 09:40:23 EDT 2005


Hey Lou, do you sit on your Honda Scooter while you're checking your AOL 
email account?

You actually spelled Quarantines correctly. Guess all that stuff they 
say about Speed helping you use more of your brain must be the truth.

I didn't make it to the first night (I suspect that, like me, many 
people were forced to admit that there's only so much sleep they can 
lose in one work-week, and have picked-and-chosen accordingly) but there 
was a decent crowd at Joe & Jo's last night. Half of them were in bands, 
but that's kinda par for the course in a town where half of *everybody* 
is in a band, or so it seems sometimes.

Jaguaro & Hotel Motel rocked like they always do (best Hot-Mot set yet, 
I think, at least of the ones I've seen) but the standout for me was 
Maple Stave, who had to play a short set because their guitarist was 
jetting to Raleigh to play in another band (Port Huron Statement, maybe? 
I missed the details on that), so they crammed all their energy into 
those 3-4 songs in 20 minutes. They do this thing where one or the other 
of them will yell wordlessly, seemingly at random, and in other 
circumstances/bands it could seem contrived, but last night it seemed 
like they were just playing so hard they couldn't fucking help it.

As far as Tuesday goes, I haven't heard anything about the turnout at 
Wetlands in Chapel Hill, but if I'd been going out I would've headed 
there rather than Joe & Jo's, and not just because Chapel Hill is closer 
to home, so maybe turnout was better over there . . .

Either way, y'all daren't miss Ricky Dollars tonight at J&J's, and then 
your 10-o-clock hour is gonna be fukt because you'll have to choose 
between the WiggRpt-> Prayers&Tears-> MtnGoats lineup at the 
coffeehouse, or my current (on CD, at least--haven't seen them) new 
obsession Opening Flower Happy Bird at J&J's, or the New Fall Season of 
Ticonderoga at Local 506.

xo

Ross

Lou Reed wrote:
> Opening night of TROIKA in Durham was lame last eve.  Nobody came out.
> What a let down.  The bands were ok.  The Quarantines (probably spelled
> wrong) were the standout act.
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