Grip the tongue to pronounce it correctly: LUH-vole
So sayeth Rudyard Kipling ... and that’s it for my clever intro! Thank you all very much for coming out! Please don’t forget to tip your server!
Friday, May 12
The Rudyard Kipling (422 W. Oak St., Louisville, KY)
Great show Friday night! The Rud is in a “bad” part of town, if bad to you means people openly urinating on the wall outside the joint. To me, that just means the locals eat a lot of fiber and/or are free-thinking liberals. *shrug* We made it out un-stabbed, and any performance I walk away from un-perforated I deem a success, no matter the ’hood!
Anyway, the venue inside was roomy and well put-together, and the InKY series holds court there monthly, filling up one room of the restaurant with about 60 or so audience members. I read during the open mic, along with a couple of local favorites. (This was sort of my “demo,” as I hope to secure a feature spot down there this fall.) Then John Whitaker took the stage for an acoustic music set. He really tore it up actually.
Then we had our features: jkerschb; local columnist Jim Welp, who read a hilariously deadpan-delivered mock-shareholders statement for the fake uber-corp “Malevola”; and finally Dan Bernitt, who did a couple of sections from his one-man stage show Thanks for the Scabies, Jerkface! A fun, eclectic show. Everyone was very good, including the open mic, and it was a wide mix of styles and content. Erin is a tremendously wry and caustic MC, too. She was like an extra performer.
I traded merch with John, and his CDs are really excellent. I would like to get him and possibly Dan Bernitt, and Erin too, up to B-tizzle sometime. Actually Dan had a not-too-pleasant reading at Boxcar sometime ago, but we told him to give it another shot now that they have a larger performance space set up.
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Thursday, May 18 @ 8p
Corner Coffee Shop (251 E. 11th St., Indianapolis, IN)