After what was the week from hell for me, this weekend was what I was looking for. The nieces and I headed out to The Palladium Ballroom in Dallas to see Rilo Kiley and company. The doors were supposed to be open at 7:30 so we took that as “lets get there around 7:45 or so to miss the crowd being let in. Well, apparently that wasn’t the best idea. The venue didn’t even bother opening the doors till 8:30! I don’t understand what the delay was all about nor did I care. I wanted to see the bands and have a good time so we just bitched and waited till we finally went in.
I’m glad to say that I didn’t miss the opening band called Grand Ole Party.
They were quite fun and worth seeing. One rarity for me occurred for me, I actually bought a cd from an opening band! The band reminded me a lot of The Gossip with their catchy drum beats and female lead singer. (I included a video of them from another live appearance below).
The second band wasn’t a hit with me. They were called “The Bird and the Bee” and aside from technical difficulties, they just sucked. I mean really really sucked.
Like opening band sucked, like trapped in an elevator listening to bad muzak versions of 90′s grunge music bad.
I can only assume they were put in the middle because the lead singer of Grand Ole Party was used for backing vocals for Rilo Kiley.
Now after being tortured by the sucktastic band that was up last we were privy to what had to be the longest setup ever for a band. I, along with the rest of the crowd surrounding me seriously were tired of the constant checking by the sound guy who btw really needed to re-evaluate the skinny pants. Not that he didn’t fit in them, it was that he just had no ass.
So finally, after all of that.. Rilo Kiley entered the stage to a very very enthusiastic crowd and just ripped right into “It’s a Hit”. Every last person in the crowd knew the lyrics! I felt like such a poser or something. I just got into them about 2 months ago and just sorta knew the songs but didn’t know them. They played from about 10:40 till around 12:15. Thankfully they played all of my favorite songs and for almost every major song the crowd sang along, which could have been annoying but it made the evening more fun.
Grand Ole Party Stuff
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