Wandering out of the Bedford Ave L train station you just know you're not in Manhattan anymore, right? Funky mothers in all the get-up striding past, hair carefully adjusted, cigarette poised, ready for some gesturing. Good stuff I say.
The band being targeted tonight is UK act The Kooks. What? You no heard? Get on it man. Ok, the UK are going a bit nucking futs and committed to giving them a cover story before they could hold a cup in one hand but no jokes, these young lads have some songs worth checking out.
Interesting note: The singer's dad was in a band and in 1962 they supported a band called The fucking Rolling Stones. Fast forward 40 years and guess who recently supported the Stones in Nothern England? I knew I liked you for a reason...
NorthSix is the venue...located on erm.....North 6th. A short walk towards the river and in you go. Here's what I like to see. Plenty of people out for a good night, good bar staff, everyone knows the songs and it's crowded yet we find somewhere to sit and have a drink prior to the headline act starting. The main room is a great size for this level of band. Even when it's crowded you can get a reasonable gander at what jeans the singer is sporting and whether the lead guitarist is using a capo. Great show.
Some advance warning: We Are Scientists are playing NorthSix on Dec 9th. Australian indie upstarts The Grates (yes, the ones like Yeah Yeah Yeahs) are supports. Don't ask questions, just get yourself into the gig.
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Australian bands are sooo hot right now, British Rock, NorthSix, Rock Venue, The Kooks, We Are Scientists, Williamsburg
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Posted on 11/9/2006
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You know what? Those little mobile units out there clogging up our
sidewalks and streets, shuffling past one another all rugged up for the
winter months, they're pedestrians or in latin are refered to as pedestrianostos
derived from the phrase "pedistal persons".
I realize that these "pedestrians" can cause havoc to those car drivers in a
rush hoping to catch the next red light 25 yards down the road. It's
inconvenient to have to slow down for them. It's frustrating when
you're driving your taxi, the meter is running and you've made such
great time heading downtown on 7th ave. You go to make that right turn
doing 30 and then...."people" get in the way. You have to slow down,
momentum lost, distracted from the conversation going on in your
earpiece and wait.
"People" don't even acknowledge that you've disrupted your journey's
fluidity to allow them to pass. You honk. Sometimes you berate them.
I was crossing the street last night, admittedly a busy intersection
but with the walking man ablaze and in my favour. Taxis slammed to a
hault while I stepped across the wide street to a chorus of fierce
horns espcaping from their steel captures.
Taxi drivers, you are my brothers but if you touch me ever so slightly with your cars, I'm going to stomp on your hoods.
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Taxi slapper, Traffic
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