Review: Paper Route 2.3.2009

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Paper Route
Cale Parks
Black Cat

Ms. CH and I tried to have dinner at Marvin so I could harass the bartender there but it was a 30-minute wait so we ended up at Bar Pilar instead. We got to ye olde BC while tickets were still available and the line was short. I lucked out buying a ticket from a guy behind me for $10 so I saved $2. Hopefully he bought them at the BC and not through the evil ticket overlords.

Cale Parks was pretty cool - he's a solo drummer/singer/electronica performer. I would liken his music to Depeche Mode. Or possibly just the haircut. Some kinda 80's thing anyway. I would definitely check him out in the future.

We were mainly there to see Paper Route, whom we saw a few months back at Jammin Java with SPSD. They put on a good show and apparently played a few songs we didn't hear the first time. I like the fact that most of their songs are duets (both singers singing simultaneously). Also, I'm not sure when I developed a fetish for well-defined platysmas but...damn...I guess I'm just a neck fetishist, tattooed or not.

Oh right, the concert. The headliners were Passion Pit who are quite popular with 80's-fashions-clad teenagers. Apparently this show had sold-out as a BC Backstage show so it was moved to the Mainstage (which I would say was also very close to being sold-out by the time PP came on). They were really not my thing, but from the looks of it they don't need my patronage anyway.