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Rebecca Riots; Sooty Skies
Jun. 28th, 2008 12:29 amKimberly and I went to a Rebecca Riots concert tonight at the Freight & Salvage. They're a local folk band that has songs on a wide variety of topics including political activism, mindfulness, and gay issues. Kimberly introduced me to them, and I quite like them. We hadn't been to one of their concerts in six years, since their 2002 show which was theoretically their last one ever.
(They started touring again two years ago.)
It wasn't the best concert I've ever been too. They had an opening act that I could have done without, and I would have liked to see more old songs rather than new ones, but I still enjoyed myself quite a bit. They have an amazing vibrancy when they're on the stage and they sing together really well.
I'd guess this is one of the last shows I'll go to at the old Freight & Salvage. It's a neat old building that used to be part of one of the railways that ran through Berkeley once upon a time. You can still see the shape of a railway building in its architecture, and thus you can feel that you're sitting in a little sliver of history.
Still, I've always found the venue small and hot, and it's about two and a half miles from our house, which is a fair walk. Conversely they're opening a new theater next year right in the middle of the theater district, which is instead just a mile's walk and should be a nice modern venue.
We also picked up the newest Rebecca Riots CD. It actually came out 4 years ago, but we kind of lost track of the band after they "broke up" in 2002. I'm very pleased because it's got a couple of the songs that I heard at that last concert and which at the time looked like they were never going to get recorded.
I'm glad we had a fun concert to go to, because it's been an icky week.
I was fighting off some sickness early on, plus sleep deprived after a few days of very hot weather. I was feel sufficiently down as a result of that and other stresses that I couldn't even bring myself to write my weekly review.
The cherry on top is the fact that I haven't actually seen the sky in three or four days. We've just had this gray gunk filling the sky all the time. Thursday was the worst when the sun filtered through in this really poisonous orange hue that made me feel like I was living through some nuclear holocaust.
The culprit is a ton of fires in California which are just filling the sky with smoke. It'll probably be a while before they're under control.
In any case, hopefully the concert will buoy my spirits and next week will be better.
(They started touring again two years ago.)
It wasn't the best concert I've ever been too. They had an opening act that I could have done without, and I would have liked to see more old songs rather than new ones, but I still enjoyed myself quite a bit. They have an amazing vibrancy when they're on the stage and they sing together really well.
I'd guess this is one of the last shows I'll go to at the old Freight & Salvage. It's a neat old building that used to be part of one of the railways that ran through Berkeley once upon a time. You can still see the shape of a railway building in its architecture, and thus you can feel that you're sitting in a little sliver of history.
Still, I've always found the venue small and hot, and it's about two and a half miles from our house, which is a fair walk. Conversely they're opening a new theater next year right in the middle of the theater district, which is instead just a mile's walk and should be a nice modern venue.
We also picked up the newest Rebecca Riots CD. It actually came out 4 years ago, but we kind of lost track of the band after they "broke up" in 2002. I'm very pleased because it's got a couple of the songs that I heard at that last concert and which at the time looked like they were never going to get recorded.
I'm glad we had a fun concert to go to, because it's been an icky week.
I was fighting off some sickness early on, plus sleep deprived after a few days of very hot weather. I was feel sufficiently down as a result of that and other stresses that I couldn't even bring myself to write my weekly review.
The cherry on top is the fact that I haven't actually seen the sky in three or four days. We've just had this gray gunk filling the sky all the time. Thursday was the worst when the sun filtered through in this really poisonous orange hue that made me feel like I was living through some nuclear holocaust.
The culprit is a ton of fires in California which are just filling the sky with smoke. It'll probably be a while before they're under control.
In any case, hopefully the concert will buoy my spirits and next week will be better.