One of South Florida's bright lights, the multi-talented frontwoman of A Hunter's Pace Sheila Hafsadi invited me to attend a rock show/burlesque show fundraiser for Dub City Derby Girls tonight at Respectable Street. I told her that I would be way too tired to attend this sensory-overloading event on the northern boundaries of South Florida's massive expanse, but I did promise to make mention of it. So, here's the 411:
We've been fatigued since last weekend when we drove all the way up to Lake Worth to attend Little Munich (very cute venue with tons of seating in front of the stage, woohoo!), the German bar that Honeycomb promoter Steve Rullman is booking these days, on Friday night and then turned around and headed all the way down to Miami to attend Interpol's concert at the Fillmore and to hit up Poplife's new venue Grand Central on Saturday night (we never made it to the Holy Terrors/Tongues gig at Churchill's).We might just -- shocking! -- stay in Broward this weekend. Palm Beach's band line-ups for the weekend make it very difficult to stick to a decision like that. It's unlikely that I will. Take a look at these tambourine-shaking weirdies that are going to play at (and most certainly fit right into the scene at) Little Munich tonight. Right? They look like a good time waiting to happen.
If you want to live a normal life in Broward, you have to try to ignore the fact that a touring San Fran band called Battlehooch is playing with the Clementines tonight at Little Munich or that Lil Daggers, Love Handles and Guy Harvey -- bands that I really should see because I've seen them before but never given them my full attention and can't quite seem to wrap my head around what they're all about -- will be playing at that venue tomorrow night. Lavola will play tonight at Propaganda, and I like Lavola and the Dewars are named on that bill too. I remember the good old days when there was like one rad happening over the course of the entire weekend. The times sure have changed.
I wish that I were South Florida indie rock sensation Surfer Blood (yes, I would want to be the whole band, not just one particular member) so that the Dewars would be opening for me on tour. I wish that I were a Surfer Blood fan in a faraway town so that I could go to the concert with no expectations for the opening band and get my mind blown by the twinsy trippiness of "The Noise Boys". It's kind of like wishing you'd never seen the movie Wonder Boys before so that you could watch it again for the first time. Saying that, I guess the congrats goes to the Dewars for scoring the opening slot on the Surfer Blood tour.
I just spent a most excellent girls weekend in Asheville, NC with my friend Ana. We journeyed from Florida to the mountains to watch our high school friend get hitched last weekend. Look at this location! It was exciting for two Florida girls to climb a mountain just to watch our friend, another Florida girl, get hitched on top.
