Longwinded Review By : Laurie Beasley
My oh my oh my!!!!!!!!!!!
Today ruled SO much.... I dont even know where to begin. Humm. Ok.
Setlist first, then my long-winded review/saga of the day. :)
SETLIST
Winder
Suicide Machine
If You Are to Bloom
I Hate It Too
Ms. Lazarus
Comin Home
Overthruster
The Scientists
Songs of Farewell and Departure
* (Stars)
Iron Clad Lou
ENCORE
The Pod
I'd Like Your Hair Long w/ the heroic doses guitarist playing matt's guitar
parts and matt crowd surfing like a maniac :)
OK MY LONG WINDED REVIEW
My friend Chris came to get me at 4 pm... we stopped by Kroger so I
could buy some film. Then we drove to the Cotton Club. We parked in the
lot, and wandered around to the back of the club. We walked in the back
door, which was wide open. Looked inside, but didnt see anyone, so we
left. We walked to get coffee (tea for me). Then we walked back in the
ickycold rain to the Cotton Club yet again.
Heroic Doses werent bad... then Swervedriver, whom I enjoyed,
although I was SOOO antsy for HUM. But then HUM came out and all the
waiting was worth it. MMMMM they are so good. It was really surprising to
hear Songs of Farewell and Departure... it was really great. The whole
show just totally hmmm rocked my socks. HUM is so wonderful live. Last
song, I'd Like Your Hair Long, the guitarist from Heroic Doses came out and
played w/ HUM, cause this was Heroic Doses last nite w/ them. Matt went
crazy diving into the crowd. Twas cool. He did it like 3 times... Bryan
looked at me and laughed and rolled his eyes. hehe I met all of them
after the show. Bryan gave me a book he wanted me to read, and talked with
me and Chris a while longer. I took some pics during the show, and then
pics of me with them afterwards. I plan to get them scanned soon. I got
my Stars 7" signed.
I love you guys!
We got to the door of the Cotton Club and lo and behold it was very
much unlocked. We walked on in and who was onstage but HUM! starting their
soundcheck. We sat down and listened... oh so rad. No one got pissed or
made us leave, so we stayed for the whole soundcheck. Afterwards, Bryan
walked by, so we called out to him and he came over and I introduced
myself. He remembered me since I interviewed him for my zine. We talked
for about 20 minutes. I gave him my zine and a copy of Alice In
Wonderland, cause he and I had been talking about it once, and he didnt
have it. He put me and Chris on the guestlist, and then he had to go do an
interview, so Chris and I left for a while.
We sold our tickets to this blond guy from Tennessee who was
cracking me up like mad after the show. They FINALLY let us in, and I
bought a rad HUM shirt (the wizard one... and they had a SMALL! i was so
pleased). We staked out places right up in front of the stage, and I met
ansigod (Brian) and spacemat (Mat), both of whom were niftykeen and very
nice.
That's my sort-of-review, sort-of run-down of the day. If anyone
has any questions about anything. gosh darn it, e-mail me!
I DID NOT want to leave tonite.... that show was SOOOOOOO good.
Sigh. Happy sighs and goofy grins.
-Laurie
who is very happy floating on cloud 9 with happy hum soundtrack going in
her head. mmmmmm
Email laurie: pezgirl@mindspring.com
