Photo documentation is trapped in various cell phones, but we did indeed headline at The Klinic last night.
We headed over to South Park Street around 11:30pm, fresh on the heels of Michael winning the song writer's showdown, Dar unexpectedly pulling a performance of two of hir originals out of hir ass, and Jon getting thoroughly cock-blocked at
Mark Croft's singer/songwriter showdown and open mic at
Brocach. We all piled in the rented cargo van and were off.
Arriving at The Klinic, Right Away was only just getting started. There had been some kind of amp meltdown that delayed them an hour. We patiently drank our $1 PBRs and waited for our turn...confident in the promise that we'd been made that we were free to play until 2am. We took the stage at 12:30am armed with our pregnant hour of tunes. There were an assortment of technical problems...like Dar's crash cymbol flying off into hir lap in the middle of "The Ballad of Anna K" and Michael's bass strap giving up the ghost in the middle of the set (a helpful audience member provided a replacement!). The PBRs got the best of Dar in the middle of the show and the boys soloed the as-to-herefore untested "I Got So High" whilst Dar emptied hir bladder...joining them mid-tune to complete the songs debut as a trio. A handful of Jon's friends, including loyal Cabana Boy Frank, were there to cheer us on...but as the evening wore on the crowd dispersed and we were unceremoniously shut down without notice at 1:30am. Inexplicably...we made $33 ($33? Hmmmm...looks like $29 to me...but, whatever)...which nearly covered the cost of renting the van...but at least we didn't have to pay The Klinic for the priveledge of playing.
It would have been nice to have an audience and to be allowed to complete our set...but still...it was quite an evening of fun. Not bad for a Wednesday night.
We're back with the middle aged liberal bikie crowd on December 28th, as east meets west at Revolution Cycles at a fundraiser for near westside Madison Alder Robbie Webber's re-election campaign. Details to come.
