(one of the Cocorosie sisters does sound uncannily like Newsom), Cibelle (eh but for her fab dress), Aden , Vetiver 
(boring), Vashti Bunyan (eh, also on the boring side), and Devendra Banhart , all introduced by David Byrne (the usual two plus a mutant).Devendra Banhart was the only one who really seemed comfortable up there on the Carnegie Hall stage, crackin' wise, with the exception of one fabulous Cocorosie beatboxer who laid down on the floor during one song he wasn't in on. I think my only disappointments of the evening were that David Byrne didn't actually sing anything on his own and that the seating was so cramped that my knees ached. It's so weird that in really nice ritzy concert halls they pack people in so tightly.
Afterwards we went to a random midtown irish pub, where they played bad music almost without exception, and watched rugby on tv, which I'd never done before. They were playing in crazy fog, so much fog that sometimes that's all you could see on the tv screen. It looked like they were having a blast. I bet rugby players are fun to hang out with, especially if Kristin is typical.
A good new-yorky night.
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2 comments:
I have a rugby-player friend from Salt Lake (a professional folklorist and generally jolly good fellow) who met his wife when he did a dissertation on rugby songs and starated hanging out with an all-woman rugby team to record their songs. they are certainly a rockin' cool couple. and the songs are pretty funny, too.
also, the smell of buffalo wings: thumbs...........up
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