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03.13

Sunday listening. Tame Impala 'Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind', Gayngs 'Ride', Kurt Vile 'Baby's Arms', Beach Fossils 'What A Pleasure'

Rainbow Arabia 'Without You', Jimmy Cliff 'Many Rivers To Cross', The Rural Alberta Advantage 'Departing', Little Scream 'Your Radio'.

Last Minute Show

Last night I saw City and Colour at the El Rey theatre here in Los Angeles. As the title indicates it was a last minute show my friends Erica and Rhian had bought tickets way back in November or so when they went on sale but Rhian inadvertently scheduled a tattoo session for the same night and was ultimately unable to go. Erica who's a huge fan of City and Colour had introduced me to the band via the song Sleeping Sickness when I was in Detroit feeling depressed and I became obsessed, I'd listen to (on YouTube but it seems since the birth of Vevo it's no longer available in the US) it four or five times in a row. I had always meant to go investigate other songs and eventually the albums but it was just one of those things that kept slipping my mind. So last night when we arrived at the El Rey which although I've only been inside once before it's one of my favorite venues. We missed the first opening act and most of the second waiting to see if Rhian could still make the show. We arrive and I'm excited but I still really only knew the one song and lucky for me I didn't have to wait long because City and Colour's frontman Dallas Green opened with it! Hearing my song first put me on cloud nine and I stayed there the entire evening thanks to the abundance of pretty melodies and lyrics that pierce your heart with ease that Dallas sings them. The frontman put on a great show bantering back and forth with the audience and at one point leading a sing a long to his tune What Makes a Man. During this song he beseeches the audience to forgo their tweeting, texting, picture taking and youtube recording to just as he put it "have a moment" from my vantage point most if not all obliged and once the moment was over he was sure to remark how good that had to have felt us not holding things up in the air in an attempt to remember forever a moment we'd be missing out on by trying desperately to capture it. He kept the evening going and before long he finished the set came back from an encore then sent us on our way. I have to say it was such a great show and if you get the chance, say at Coachella go check out City and Colour.

P.S.
On an just a funny note while standing outside waiting for what seemed like an eternity for valet to bring my Erica car around we spy Carey Hart. My roommate sees him first and before she can really ask did I see him I answer in the affirmative with a smile. After a few moments of agreeing on how hot he is his very pregnant wife appears! Then I love what happens next the very diligent security makes a path for her by shooing Erica and I away from the valet stand as if were going to mob Pink! It just makes me laugh because they were as they should be taking their job seriously but the only thing I would have found exciting enough to jump on her at that moment would have been if she had pulled up in my roomies car so I could get off the streets of Los Angeles at midnight and get to my bed!