RTP-area local music and culture

["Mary Brunnemer" <marymarymb AT gmail.com>]

I'm a giant fan of both bands so I could be completely biased...but I
thought both performances were pretty great. I'm pretty die-hard fan of
Superchunk & my only complaint was the short set. I would have loved to see
more, since they don't play so much anymore. Oh, and it was a bit weird to
be in a sea of youngins that didn't seem to be familiar with Superchunk
songs, so that was a bummer. In all my years, don't think I had ever seen
Superchunk at an outside venue, so that seemed extra fun to me for some
reason. That was my 3rd time seeing Arcade Fire (Local 506 & Cradle) so it
was a larger crowd, but I was close enough to not be bothered by it. I had a
pretty good spot between the stage & sound booth tent but didn't feel too
crowded in my immediate surroundings.
It was also fun to be at an Obama rally, yet I managed to avoid signing the
clipboard as I had already done it to pick up my tix, too. I did have 4
people as me about early voting while I waited in line, but I soon learned
that telling them I lived in Durham county put a stop to their plea. (No, I
do NOT want to go vote right now while you hold my place in line, thank you
very much.) The lines and crowd were really not as bad as I feared. All in
all it was worth taking a day off work and getting a goofy one-sided, oddly
shaped sunburn. Though they really shoulda been giving out water or selling
liquid refreshment of some kind. Overall? I'm very glad I went to the show.



On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:46 AM, DJ Golf <djgolf AT mindspring.com> wrote:

> Anybody got a capsule review of the aforementioned Town Commons event?
>
> On May 3, 1:20=A0pm, local... AT gmail.com wrote:
> > >>The Pressure Boys were a hugely popular Chapel Hill ska band...
> >
> > I think relegating them to just 'ska' is doing them a disservice -
> > although they were heavily influenced by the genre (witnessed by them
> > doing three songs that appear on The Specials debut last night.)
> > Their later stuff definitely owes as much a debt to XTC. =A0Regardless,
> > the show last night was amazing! =A0I highly recommend going tonight if
> > you missed it!
> >
> > glenn
> >
> > ps: what a day - both the Cradle and 506 were sold-out plus the Town
> > Commons event!
>
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