beer to the head/ downstairs with WU LYF

So much to say but can't remember a whole lot of thursday's concert- WU LYF @ the Middle East downstairs- the one i've been talking about endlessly since September. It may be from the massive headache i received at the end of WU LYF- thankfully someone threw a half empty PBR tall boy into the crowd and it enjoying itself all over my head and torso! Even though I spent the last two songs in the porcelain palace, WU LYF @ the Middle East downstairs was such a fantastic trip.

I can be critical of boston crowds because with alot of the smaller shows I go to-energy is weak and no ones dancing like I want them to (just fucking do it already). (side note-this doesn't include house parties, the Paradise or my bedroom-all those places move quite fantastically). Many times its been me in a drunken haze dancing in circles around my friends who stare at me like a fool (truth), and I know that the others in the corners who are doing the exact same thing as me are silently cheering me on. But for the others, the fence posts- I get it, you just want to stand there and not move, not tap your foot or nod your head- I get it. Just don't get in my way right? right?

The middle east downstairs, stuffed like a sausages/inlove every part of it, had a crowd that finally made me eat my words- everyone was in the same mind zone, all in motion and wording the garble that WL is known for.. dancing and jamming and fighting-everything that I wanted I got. Selfish, i know. I was just proud to have these guys in Cambridge-end scene. end hangover-bring em back.

cheers

11/10 @the Middle East downstairs

crystalized my openers-aka the day ive been awaitin.

This thursdays concert at the middle east downstairs is the day i have been talking about (on this tiny imbecile blog) for months. i don't feel like talking about it anymore- because i'm fucking excited and thats about all i can say about it. the openers sound pretty good to me- we'll try to see them but we'll probably be attempting to climb the roof to T.T. The Bears before WU LYF comes on (backside story- a 70 year old basically homeless man told me he used to do this when he was young right before he shattered his beer on the floor and fell over trying to mop it up at Precinct in Union SQ)

I'm attempting to call this my Boston Vs. Brooklyn match up- the first and only show i've seen in new york was WU LYF and it was hell.a.good. The crowd was awesome, and I knew the band actually enjoyed being there. sometimes i get this itchy feeling that the crowds in Boston aren't the most pleeeeasing for up and comers/nobodies/(theonlygoodbandoutthere)- but it can be hard to read the face of the drunks on stage-so what can i really say.  anyways, below is a rough cut from Crystal Antlers-i'll leave the best for thursday

cheers & beers