Tag: The Mezzanine

Noise Pop Show Review: !!! at The Mezzanine, 2/27/10

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In your face, and you love it.

If there was any doubt in anyone’s mind that !!! is one of the best live shows touring, then allow the next few minutes of reading dispel that. Like a tsunami, you know it’s coming, but your not quite sure what to expect, talk of what is coming seems nearly speculative until it happens and it takes you with it. Caught up in !!!’s wave of sweat, dance and sex! As we make our way inland it’s clear we are all at the mercy of front man Nic Offer. Offer spends most of his time dancing and waving his arms at the very front of the sage, flailing and shaking yet graceful and rhythmic. Offer makes it known that he’s here to entertain and you have no option to join, as he makes his first tour around that crowd: you’re not dancing, now you are! Drinking a bottle of beer at the front of that stage: no you’re not, Offer is now dumping it over his head, now you’re all wet because he shook it all over you, it’s OK your drenched in sweat anyways. Continue reading “Noise Pop Show Review: !!! at The Mezzanine, 2/27/10”

Show Review: Vitalic at The Mezzanine, 2/20/10

Friday night I had my housewarming party. It was filled with Scotch and dalliances; to say the next day was rough would be an understatement. I had to use a strength rivaled only by Conan the Barbarian to get out of my bed. That morning also happened to be the day Vitalic was in town. Continue reading “Show Review: Vitalic at The Mezzanine, 2/20/10”

SF Sketchfest Review: Red Wine Boys w/ Mates Of State, John Hodgman, Larry Murphy, Brendon Small, Eugene Mirman at The Mezzanine, 1/31/10

This is our last report from the 2010 edition of San Francisco’s Sketchfest festival, and this one might be the most impressive show of the festival. I showed up before the doors opened, only to find the longest line that I have ever seen at Mezzanine before a show. I made my way to the front, only to glimpse that Dave Eggers was on the guest list.

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Show Review: The Gossip with Passion Pit & Hey Champ at The Mezzanine, 12/10/09

Beth Ditto loved the wreath
Beth Ditto loved the wreath

When it’s a dual-headlining show I never know what to expect.  Despite the great line-up, this one had two strikes against it to start: being at the Mezzanine and being sponsored by Live105.  Not that I hate either of those things in and of themselves, but both tend to bring out people I am not so fond of.  That was definitely true again, as a member of the Spinning Platters senior staff was accosted by a drunk concert-goer, making the evening seem unsuccessful and awful.   But everything that went wrong in the Passion Pit portion of the evening (drunk bitches included), all became better in The Gossip portion.  Passion Pit should take notes. Continue reading “Show Review: The Gossip with Passion Pit & Hey Champ at The Mezzanine, 12/10/09”