M.I.A at 4th and B April 28th, 2008

I tried to pick up an extra ticket for a friend before the show, about an hour before the show, and the show was sold-out. There was a line that wrapped around the building and it was 8pm! The crowd was mixed with young and old, but mostly young - I guess they all saw the commercial!

I've seen here before and I've always had a great time, so I knew this was going to be a blast, especially after hearing about her performance at Coachella. I was/am still sick, but I couldn't miss. I thought it would bring my energy level pretty low, but after a drink or two, that didn't happen. I was a dancing fool!

The place was pretty full and it was HOT as hell in there. The drinks were stiff. She came on at about 10:15ish, a little late. But she brought it. I wish I could tell you every song she played, but I was way too into it that it all became a blur. She was dancing and singing and at times playing DJ. She had some of her crew come out and hose people down with water guns which was hilarious.

M.I.A had people jump onto stage for one song and that was chaos. My favorite part is that she was right in the mix and in the middle of that turmoil, still singing and dancing. She played for little more than an hour and ended her set with Paper Planes.

It was a great show, but I do wish she would have played more oldies. She has so many good songs to chose from.

p.s. yes i know this is a little shitty review, but hey, i'm sick! lol

Eddie Vedder - Spreckel's Theater 04 16 08

Eddie Vedder played last night at the Spreckles Theater in San Diego, Calfornia. It was the last show of his West Coast Tour - Sniper. He played for over 2 hours and had an array of stringed instruments. He played most, if not the whole album from "Into The Wild" and at one point, he brought out a "special guest." How great was it to see Emile Hirsch on stage! He hardly played any Pearl Jam songs and the ones he did play were the more obscure songs aka, not the hits. He played 3 songs off the "Harold and Maude" soundtrack and a ton of other wonderful acoustic songs.



We all know Eddie Vedder is short, so it was crazy to see Emile standing next to Eddie and seeing that Emile is totally shorter than Eddie! Eddie looked a bit femme, but good. His hair was longish. I'm thinking he's still "in character" from the movie he is currently filming. Who knows.

Emile was on stage for two songs. One he just sort of sat there as Eddie sang a song he wrote about Sean Penn and Emile came back on stage for the last song, where he sang BACK UP! I was surprised as hell. I also noticed that Emile looked super awkward on stage. I'm sure he's never seen what it's like to be a well-known, well-liked musician on stage with their adoring fans singing along, standing, screaming, and crying out their name. It's definitely different than what he's used to, to a certain degree. You can tell that he was tripping out at the sight. It was rather cute.

If you can catch Eddie Vedder on tour - do it!




*thank you to my friend geoff who took the pictures!

STP Tour dates announced!

This makes me very, very happy. I saw them when they played at Street Scene, many a year ago and that experience was one of my all time favorites. I don't know about them playing at Qualcomm though. I guess they can because they know people will pay to see them, but i would have loved to see them at something just a little smaller - um Spreckel's?

May 17, 2008 Columbus, OH Columbus Crew Stadium
May 18, 2008 Camden, NJ S quehanna Bank Center
May 20, 2008 Cleveland, OH State Theatre
May 22, 2008 Chicago IL Charter One Pavilion/Northerly Isle
May 23, 2008 Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis Motor Speedway
May 26, 2008 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena
May 31, 2008 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center
June 01, 2008 Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center (see you bbs there!)
June 03, 2008 Detroitl, MI State Theatre
June 06, 2008 St. Paul, MN Wilkens Auditorium
June 08, 2008 St. Louis, MO Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
June 11, 2008 Salt Lake City, UT E Center
June 12, 2008 Las vegas, NV Pearl Concert Theatre (Palms Resort)
June 14, 2008 Reno, NV Reno Events Centre
June 24, 2008 Los angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl
June 25, 2008 Tucson, AZ Anselmo Valencia Ampitheatre
June 27, 2008 Dallas, TX Nokia Theatre
June 28, 2008 Corpus Christi, TX Concrete Street Amphitheatre
July 02, 2008 Denver, CO Red Rocks Amphitheatre
July 04, 2008 Milwaukee, WI Summerfest
July 05, 2008 Des Moines, IA Balloon Launch Park
July 10, 2008 Quebec City,QC CA Quebec City International Festival
July 12, 2008 Toronto,ON CA Downsview Park
July 18, 2008 Mt. Pleasant,MI Soaring Eagle Casino
July 19, 2008 Cadott, WI Chippewa Valley M ic Festival
July 25, 2008 Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre
July 26, 2008 Paso Robles, CA California Mid-State Fair
July 27, 2008 San diego, CA Qualcomm Stadium
August 02, 2008 Oklahoma city, OK Zoo Amphitheatre
August 03, 2008 Council bluffs, IA Mid America Centre
August 04, 2008 Green bay, WI Oneida Casino
August 08, 2008 Bethlehem, PA Music Fest
August 09, 2008 Atlantic city, NJ Borgata Hotel and Casino
August 10, 2008 Pimlico, MD V Festival
August 17, 2008 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
August 31, 2008 Seattle, WA Bumber Shoot

~ more to come!

SOULPEOPLE Raydee-OH Season 2 -Episode 17 : Garth Trinidad (KCRW) & Tita Lima (Brasil)

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