A few days ago I found out that Toronto plays host to a music festival, sort of a SXSW Jr., called (naturally) NXNE. This was exciting news; more so when I saw that my favorite Nerd Rocker Jonathan Coulton was scheduled to play on Friday night!!! Then this crazy weather deal happened, and we thought it would be wise to stay in tonight. But then it cleared up... so we decided to try to make it down anyway. Now, for some reason, I thought the show started at 8... so we rushed downtown, and made it at 7:45, only to discover when we purchased our wristbands that he wasn't scheduled until 9. What the gal who sold us said wristbands failed to mention, however, was that the crazy weather also disrupted air traffic and JoCo had to CANCEL. We did not discover this until we had returned to Reverb (which is a pretty cool place to see a small show, actually), waited around for about 15 minutes, and then saw this 5-man band get on stage. Thankfully the ticket girl was spared my murderous wrath, because the replacement band (Public) was pretty rockin'. Think Killers without the suits and the keyboards. So even though things did not go as planned, they turned out A-OK. The evening gets bonus points for a) HMV security dude smokin' it up on his break one doorway down from the shop, and b) strange old homeless lady talking to herself in the Second Cup.
I love downtown.
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Thank goodness we went to see him in San Diego, where we also had to wait for frikin ever until he came on. This guy has promptness issues.
Nicole
PS Milk in a bag is just wrong! Although if they put a teet on that sucker it would be halarious.
Oh man. It definitely would! I can't believe they haven't thought of that!
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