Readers Write: We Went To Haverford To See Art Brut And All We Got Was This Giant Cup Of Schadenfreude
First of all, Arctic Honkies, mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I spotted JoJo Sweeney on the wheels of Steel at the TWEETER as promised. We left after the Franz rocked the Tweeter for a bunch of unappreciating 15 year old MTVites. Good Job, Jojo, the lobby was where it was at! Bathroom lines as long as the lines of coke i dreamt of during Franz’s “Michael.” PS: Alex Capranos forgot the first verse lyrics to Micheal the last two times we saw the Franz.
After the jump, the Grups hightail it to Haverford College. Hilarity ensues.
Clare and I hightailed it out of New Jersey to get to Haverford to wander the campus like an acid flashback trying to find fucking Lunt hall (Cunt Hall?) on the Haverford campus. It was craziness. They dont post campus maps anywhere.
The opening band was Gil Mantegna’s Party Band (or something like that), which is way up Jojo’s alley, we believe. Clare would give a better account of that. But in general the show was weird, in the basement of a dorm, drunken 18 year old Havernerds drinking straight out of Jack Daniels bottles, who knows who bought them for them, since they looked like they were 15. Gosh we’re getting so old. That’s what we get for going to a college campus to see these bands.
It was hilarious, because Art Brut is awesome, and mustached, but also because the drunken 18 year olds were slam dancing, body-pushing, mish moshing so hard that the ROADIES of ART BRUT had to come out and hold back the crowd! After each song, the lead singer/talker dude was like, “I know you all are having such a great time, but that was not a dancing song. I would like to see some ‘ACTUAL’ dancing, and please, EVERYONE TAKE A BIG STEP BACKWARDS!” They really were all up in his grille, and they are not at the point in their career where they want or need a bunch of rich, spoiled, 18 year old Havernerds falling down drunk on top of their expensive equimpent! The mic cord kept getting knocked out by the drunken rowdy brats. Despite of all of this, ART BRUT kept their cool, and they still rocked the body. We hung in the back against the wall bench, standing on top so we could see the debauchery from above.philebs fan
Kyle T
