I know it's way to early, but I'm beyond excited about this show. Two of my favorite headliners from 2003 come together for one show. Well worth the $18.

awesome, is this show 18+? I must go to this show.

Yes.

ben kweller sucks

too rich (and lame as fuck) for my blood

let's analyze this, shall we?

we shall

lame= Weak and ineffectual; unsatisfactory: "a lame attempt to apologize for eating your piece of pie"; "lame excuses for not delivering the pizza on time"

as= To the same extent or degree; equally: "The child sang as sweetly as Tom Waits"

fuck= To have sexual intercourse with OR (in this case) used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal

hence the phrase "lame as fuck"

what a douche.

only morrissey would compare lame and fuck.

i know you are but what am i

hmmmmmm?

stripper, you've won back my heart.

morrissey is a douche.

blasphemy!

i wish i'd known that i had it to start with.

piety!

tease

Morrissey doesn't fuck. Which is kinda lame.

Apparently there is an early show this night as well. Pernice Brothers with opening act the Long Winters.

The Death Cab/Kweller show has been moved to Rocketown. Fuck.

yeah, that pissed me off.

probably to accomidate the large "under 18 years old" fanbase both of those acts have, im guessing. but yeah...rocketown is definately not where its at. sorry.

According to the Pernice Brother's site, the show is the following night (Sunday the 18th). Also, I just found out that Tobin Sprout (of Guided by Voices fame) will be playing the End on Saturday, April 10. Since I have never seen him, this could possibly be my favorite show of the entire year.

I am not going to this show, but I have a friend who is and is upset about the venue switch. He doesn't smoke, but he said "I'd rather get cancer than have to listen to my friends bitch about not being able to smoke." I found it amusing.

I'm not going to DC either but I feel for all of those who will now be enjoying the show at Rocketown. Sorry guys. I'm sure it will still be a great show.

Because of the venue?

I'm happy about the smoke-freeness of the venue, but I would have been happier if it had been 18+. Those kids better not get in my way! I understand the decision, though, because 1) I assume they have a large under-age demographic (especially BK) and 2) this show is way too big for the Exit/In (each bands had a capacity show at Exit/In last year). I'm going to enjoy every second of it regardless of where it is. Of course, the $24 ticket was a little steep...

The venue is not really the issue, though I definately would prefer Exit/In if I were to attend. I just simply did not have enough money this time around. I was really sad that I was gonna miss it but the Pernice Brothers show is cheering me up.

$24??? Ok, I'm officially not going.

I thought they were $18? Though, after ticketmaster charges it did come out to about $25 a ticket.

ohhhh, just because I love to hate on Rcktwn...

1. The people that hang out there are lame
2. The fact that they take your cigarettes (until you leave) really bothers me for some reason.
3. They keystone the admission to concerts
4. The set-up is completely contrived and lame
5. It's basically a place for youth group kids, in disguise

I went once for DND and I will certainly never go back. It's way too parental.

what is keystoning admission?

also, the cigarettes thing would piss me off, but seeing as how I don't carry cigarettes anymore, it doesn't matter.

to keystone = to gouge the price

It's old businessman terminology, from my experiences.

(Edited by richarddawson at 5:02 pm on Mar. 17, 2004)

How is that different from other places? Ticketmaster is such a bitch.

I'm saying that they raise the price past what you might expect. I would expect $15 or so for this show.

Not only do they take your cigarettes, they also won't let you in until the security guards check you with metal detectors. So you have to empty everything out of your pockets into a little bowl and it's a real hassle. I was really embarrassed when they found the aluminum foil wrapped cucumber I was packing.

(Edited by Brother Love at 1:31 pm on Mar. 18, 2004)

HA!

I have two tix for $40 if anyone wants them. That is $10 cheaper than Ticketmaster.

i dont blame you for wanting to get rid of them

Hey Steamgrate... I'll take those tix. Then I'll go give them to somebody that won't be bitching about it forever... maybe Dusty Drake is free that evening.

Looks like Pedro the Lion is opening. Any fans? I'm not that familiar, but it sounds like whiny emo shit to me.

it is whiny emo shit. i haven't caught a live show and i only have one cd, but i still pull it out from time to time. what can i say? guilty pleasure.

(Edited by HaveSomeSoma at 4:24 pm on Apr. 15, 2004)

Whiny emo christian shit, to be more specific.

**edit** Not that I have anything against Christians. It's just that, in my opinion, little-to-no good music has come out of that genre.

(Edited by Keith at 1:26 am on Apr. 16, 2004)

yeah. pedro the lion sucks. death cab, ben kweller, and wyclef rule!

Great freaking show! I missed PTL. As much as I was hoping Ben could get a replacement bass player, the solo thing was a cool opener. That dude has plenty of charisma to pull it off. This was my 5th DCFC show, but they always manage to really captivate me (although they could dig into their catalogue just a little bit more).

I want to be the first to say that the Rocketown venue was pretty kickass. There was no smoke, no drunks, a great view over little kids' heads, cheap soda ($1 for a 20oz. bottle), and it was well A/Ced. I guess it helps that I'm a nonsmoker who doesn't insist on being drunk off my ass to enjoy seeing my favorite bands play.

Most importantly, the Christianity thing was covert enough not to annoy me, too. And I didn't really feel too old to be there.

Yeah, the christian thing was under the table, really. But I still thought Pedro was uninteresting and bland. I didn't really care whether they played a short or huge set, as I was just carrying on with conversation. I know, that's rude, but I was in the back, and I wasn't going to pay $50 for us to just sit there and not have fun at rcktwn.

I found Ben Kweller to be overly geeky.

Deathcab ruled.

Ticketmaster totally fucked me over. and rockettown's employees are dumb. I still hadn't gotten my tickets in the mail on thursday (I should have just bought them at Kroger) so I called about it. Sven told me he had set me up on Will-Call and that everything was kosher. Well, I get there and the Will-call table doesn't have my tickets. I explain why there might be some confusion or they might be in a different pile or something and they tell me to go across the way to another table. I get there and they ask me what band i'm there for... I was like "uh... deathcab." and they started shuffling papers. I take a glance at what they're looking at and see the WMTS list and realize that they've sent me to the guestlist table for some damn reason. I had requested the possibility of free tickets from WMTS a couple of months ago, but I was unsure as to whether or not the current music director had put me on the guestlist as I hadn't followed up on it. Not wanting to know whether or not I had wasted fifty bucks on tickets, I didn't check to see if my name was on the list. I went back to the will call table and asked them about the situation again. A girl told me that she was trying to find the tickets. But a couple of minutes later, she was just standing there doing nothing. I asked if anyone was looking for my tickets and she was very snippy in her response. Well, eventually a manager came and talked to me. She was very nice and took my ticket order number, name and phone number and let me in.

oh yeah, was it just me or did the fashion at the show look incredibly vapid?

(Edited by deathscythe257 at 2:27 pm on Apr. 19, 2004)

Just wanted to revive this topic to let you all know that Death Cab will be returning to Rockettown on Tuesday, October 26th. Unfortunately, I'll be flying back from a conference in San Diego that night, but I recommend it. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, but I assume they're gen admission.

Death Cab should feel honored to get to play the same stage the Features played on just 6 weeks previous.

i doubt i'll see them this time around. twice in one year is good enough for me, and i remember feeling slightly bored at their last rocketown show. if the opening band is good, i might reconsider.

How about Pretty Girls Make Graves?

meh.... i'll miss it. so far i've seen death cab three times and i've realized something... either their sets are INCREDIBLY long, or i just get flat-out bored by the end. either way, i'm usually itching to leave with a good 5 or 6 songs left in the setlist. i don't know why... i enjoy their music, but i guess i don't have the patience for a whole show.

and why did everyone here hate pedro the lion? i enjoyed em... ah well.

(Edited by dontstaylong at 1:56 pm on Aug. 26, 2004)

death cab shows a bore? noooooo way

and with all respect to steve aoki, pretty girls make graves sucks