RTP-area local music and culture

[Thom Wiley <monkeyboythom AT gmail.com>]

The party was definitely at Go! this past Friday. I'm going to miss that 
place. 

Natasha was a really fun band; they had the whole crowd cheering them
on. Good rockin', girls, snappy tunes. Maybe a reunion gig when you
all graduate from college?

Roxotica - you girls are going to be missed. It will be that day in
the future when I am humming some tune, and I won't be able to place
it. Then it will hit me as one of your songs and I will wonder that it
seemed like yesterday when you all were on stage. It was truly fun.

Geez. Now it comes to those guys in Razzle. Like a Louisiana bayou
bordello: loud and raw. It's amazing that Cantwell, Wall, and Rob have
strings on their guitars and Bjorkback still has drum heads. Man, what
a show. What? Yeah, I know by now that any Razzle show needs earplugs
but I'll keep the ringing in my ears like an aftertaste of a very
robust scotch.

As all things end, this night closed on good memories, wistful
questions of future directions, and a new CD in my hand. Yeah, I
wasn't part of the trendy, hip Merge weekend. But saying goodbye was
more important.


Cheers,
thom