So I go out to Halifax’s oldest pub and to see some live music. It was a Tuesday night.
I’m amazed at how stuck up the audience was. It basically went like this:
Four increasingly tedious, maudlin, disingenuous, hat-wearin-hipster-cowboy-wannabes get up one after the other and play sets of songs that sound basically indentical and the place responds like like they’ve just seen Dylan or The Band.
Then an actual (good) rock and roll band plays and the place acts like they’re at a funeral. WTF? Even the singer called them out on it.
I’ve been to so many shows lately hoping to see something lively, gut smacking and original. No dice. Seriously, I know you guys all want to be on The Playlist in the afternoon but enough with the recycled folk/country.
Oh, and be nice!
—-cowboy patrol
This article appears in Nov 12-18, 2009.
Haha
The only other thing Halifax audiences seem to need is someone sawing away at a fiddle, without that you’re doomed…
well there’s your problem right there… that place isn’t really known as a good venue for “music”…
I, by no means, am tapped into the local music scene but have been there and know that it blows goats.
lol only fucking assholes and university students (same thing?) go to that place what do you expect?
Pretty much sums up everything you need to know about that place. People who are actually out to appreciate live music do not frequent that bar. The only purpose that dive serves is to fuel the alcoholic flames of a bunch of musically challenged drunks.
yeah, bud, some of it sucks so much, you just wanna puke.
If you are looking for something really original, there’s wicked funk band I’ve seen a few times, Chalkpit? Definitely can say I haven’t heard anything like them, at least not in this city, before.
There’s like what, 7-8 covver bands tops that go through that venue? The last thing you go there for is the music, it’s happy hour and cheap(at least it was) food+access to the bus and cabs.