5.13.2011

rooftop concert? yes please.

{{editor's note: here at warm fuzzies, we pride ourselves on our thorough posts. but this time, we just kind of went... ...*meh*.  but.  there will be videos of the concert coming soon. two of them. maybe tomorrow. the author is...a pretty impatient person sometimes and just wanted to post this now cuz she wrote it, well, last week. so check back. :) }}

remember how i used to write concert reviews? yeah. me too...barely. i have LOTS of them stuffed away in my drafts folder. i'll simplify them and get 'em up...sometime.



this past friday i attended a fantastic concert. consider and finish this incomplete equation:

lovely spring evening + free + friends + ROOF of a PARKING GARAGE = ?!

yeah. [don't] be jealous. it was just as epic and awesome as it sounds. 

and the performers? paul jacobsen and the madison arm, and fictionist (i heard emily brown played as well but didn't get there in time for her). it was my first experience with both bands.


we walked in. saw this. joined some friends:

thanks, angela, for braving the side crowd to get these shots!

and gosh, i was excited.

i *really* enjoyed the unaffected sounds of paul jacobsen and the madison arm. they just seemed like cool guys and i could just totally groove to their stuff. loved the harmonies and chill vibes.

left: paul jacobsen + madison arm, right: fictionist 

the members of fictionist are all apparently from utah, and it was cool to see hometown boys perform when as they're getting big (they are in a competition to get on the cover of rolling stone and today is the LAST DAY to vote-- do it!). both bands were really generous and appreciative.

some of us


i decided halfway through that my soul needed this concert (because of the elements of the aforementioned equation). i wished everyone could have been there. then again, music doesn't affect everyone the same way. so... i really wished that (ready for a really convoluted sentence?!) -- everyone whom it impacts like it impacts me could have been there to appreciate and love the concert as much as i did. you can go ahead and re-read that if you need, cuz i'm not editing it.





i didn't have my camera (WHAT?! i know, right?!) but it was fun to play around with angela's new iphone to take a few photos and videos. that was good for my artistic well-being, too.


i'll skip my usual intense analysis of every song and just say...if you weren't there, then i wish you had been.

--

ps, in case you're wondering about the crowd vibe, and i'm sure you were, this was basically a hipster mecca. don't know what a hipster is? then READ THIS NOW. remember hannah? yeah. awesome.


other reviews/pictures/buzz of this concert:
kristina (i sat with her :)
c jayne
muse music cafe

3 comments:

Taylor Ashley said...

oh my gosh this sounds and looks soo fun! [: hope the rest of your summer is fun and eventful too[:

--jeff * said...

like you said when it was all going down, wish i could've been there.
: )

sounds seriously dang, and i suspected it was a definite hipster gathering from the start. but that's ok, as we've both admitted that we carry within us such tendencies.

so, even though i'm gone, i'm glad that you're still going to awesome new concerts and discovering new bands (not that i doubted otherwise, but i'm still glad the awesomeness continues.)

and i'll be there for the next one*.






*the one on july 27.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KK said...

Love your Fictionist recap. It was such a fun night :)