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The Sad Demise of a Great Venue

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I was re-reading something this morning and remembered that I had both read about and seen that the building which formerly housed Columbus rock club Little Brother’s was due to get a new tenant:

(I actually saw this a few weeks back when Casey and I headed out to the Surly Girl and Skully’s after the Arcade Fire show, but it didn’t register then for some reason. Chalk it up to the hour.)

Anyway, so, “Liquid”. Sheesh. And then I remembered that I wrote this back in April:

If a concert hall that doesn’t even operate as a proper bar most days of the week won’t pony up the rent, the thinking probably goes, then there’s bound to be some latte-bar entrepreneur with dreams of IPOing who’ll gladly sign up, until the money inevitably runs out there, too.

I hate being right.

(photo by the Alive’s Chris DeVille)

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Wilco at the Wex 2007

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Wilco at the Wex 2007
Originally uploaded by Gus Dahlberg

A lousy picture, but an amazing show (even though I really do hate “Spiders (Kidsmoke)”, the song they used to end the first encore). Not as marvelous an experience as when we saw them in 2005 — no cover of Randy Newman’s “Political Science” this time around — but how can you argue with what was essentially a two-hour-ten-minute set?

(Well, okay, I can argue, because I am snooty and this is the Internets. Nice attention to SKY BLUE SKY, but no “Either Way“, probably the best song on the album, or natural closer “What Light“? Really? No “Misunderstood“? Okay, okay, it’s overplayed, they have this huge back catalogue of great music that never winds up on the set list, I get it. But that’s why the reliance on the snooze-inducing noodling jamfest of “Spiders” sticks in my craw — seems like a waste of precious show time at the expense of better material.)

Andrew Bird opened for them. Although Casey had burned the disc for me a few weeks back, I hadn’t given it a listen and consequently knew next to nothing about the guy. After being almost moved to tears at one point during his set (!), rest assured I’ll be remedying that this week.