Lost Weekend Gig Recap

We have been remiss in the performance recapitulation sector, specifically with regards to the weekend of March Twelfth to Thirteenth, in the year of our Lord 2010. I have therefore been sentenced to recollect, mustering the best of my waning faculties, the chronological events comprising the above.

The Local 269 in New York was positively tectonic. We had some band godmothers up in there. We had some ex-roommates and some stalwart friends… Matt Earle was formally inducted as our first Darlingside SuperFan, having now attended the same number of gigs as Dave’s Newsies hat.  Auyon paid homage to this feat by wearing a sleeveless undershirt with black suspenders.  We had never shared the stage with a “funk-hop” group before, but the Downbeat Keys were a sweet, groovy revelation.  Levain Bakery yielded two-pound cookies on the way out of Manhattan, and we left sated. We’ll see you New Yorkers again soon (May 6 at Banjo Jim’s and then a bowling/music bonanza at Brooklyn Bowl on June 15!).

The following eve, we dragged our equipment through an ice storm into a restaurant/brewery, where we served up a couple hours of acousticy tune-fare in exchange for homemade beer and joyful hamburg. A few surprise friends showed up from Williamstown to help us make merry. The sleety-slushy drive home was the same amount of fun as going back and watching “The Land Before Time” twenty years later and realizing it’s not actually that good.

*Bonus Ticket-selling Recap:

Harris and Don attempt to table at UMass-Amherst for the Nada Surf show, without a table