Troika Music Festival at Joe & Jo's Downtown

James Hepler jameshepler at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 25 10:31:24 EDT 2005


Tuesday night at Wetlands was fun.  It started
ridiculously late due to technical difficulties.  I
got there areound 9:50 to see Veronique Diabolique. 
They sounded really good.

Initial reports about the wetlands had me ho-humming
about the venue.  But when I actually got there for
the first time Tuesday night, I was very pleasantly
surprised.  I thought it sounded good, it was
spacious, well lit, with a nice separation between the
house and the pool table/booth area.

The show was nowhere near full, which was slightly
disappointing.  And since my work schedule has changed
for the worse due to my evil class schedule, I
couldn't stay long enough to see the bands that I went
there for.  But it was a whole lot of fun.

I'm looking forward to tonight.  Not sure if I'll be
at the coffeehouse or the J&J.  Is the coffeehouse
still BYOB?

--- grady <grady at ibiblio.org> wrote:

> 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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