Review: Matt Pond PA Live in My Living Room for The Third Time!
Once is chance. Twice is coincidence. Thrice is pattern.
Based on this formulation, having Matt Pond PA perform in my living room is now a pattern. For this third visit, they offered the tickets to their Facebook friends. My friend Ed & I divvied up the other tickets to a few friends. For the third time in a row, we broke the living room attendance record, as we climbed from 37 last July to 44 in October to 47 on Friday, February 19. That number includes both Matt Pond and Chris Hansen, but does not include Tulip, who spent the pre-concert and post-concert period walking up to people and inducing them to pet her, with significant success. It also does not include however many people watched on Periscope.
The Band
Matt Pond
Chris Hansen
The Hosts
Me
Ed, of Chasing Infinity fame
People Who Were At All Three House Concerts
Jen & Courtney
Bill & Dawn
Leanne & JV
M
Brandt, of The Cream of Broccoli Radio Hour
People Who Were at Two of the Three House Concerts
Rich, of The MP3 Removal Squad
Lily, of Sweet and Lowdown
gieves, of Exploding Plastic Inevitable
People Who Drove More Than Two Hours To Attend
Cyrus & Mika - a couple from Pittsburgh
Ali & Christa - sisters from Detroit
People From Local Bands
Amy, from Heavenly Creatures
Tony & Matt, from Aloha (came in late)
Other People
Candy, spouse of Brandt
Jackie, spouse of Rich
Brian
Jim & Jennifer
Kelly, came with Courtney & Jen
Eric & Caroline
Sarah & Kevin (came in late)
Annie & Ed
Claire
Brian
Tara and Mark
Whitney & Greg
Michael
Nicole
Jenny & Joe
Chris & Megan
Kris, came with M
All names are approximate.
It was Candy's birthday, so I got a sheet cake from Elmwood Bakery and Ed bought a lot of ice cream. There were leftovers, probably because people polished off 41 bottles of beer, 14 cans of beer, 1 bottle of wine, two shooters of wine and 5 cans of assorted non-alcoholic beverages. In other news, I'm still a little anal retentive. There was also a lot of beer left in the fridge. I brought a bunch over to butterandjelly's birthday party the next night, along with the rest of the cake, but I still handily have a dozen beers taking up space in my fridge.
The show itself was superb. Matt took requests from the crowd more than he had during the past two shows, and I think he played some new songs. Afterwards, he had a large variety of merchandise available to sell, because they had recently discovered that one of their old labels left some 500 pounds of assorted merch (vinyl, t-shirts, CDs, stickers, bags, posters) in Cleveland. The people storing it got sick of harassing the label about it, so they reached out to Matt, and he picked it up before the show. I scored a sweet poster and one album I didn't have previously.
Things I learned this time:
- Capacity for my living room is 50 people. More than that is not possible, unless we take out all the chairs and make everybody stand.
- We're going to give up on giving out dessert at house concerts, or alternately stick with something like cookies that doesn't require serving. After drinking booze, people aren't interested in dessert.
- I really need to get anyone who attends a house concert to give me their email so we can announce any other house concerts I may host in the future.
Also, I took some photos. Most didn't turn out, but the few survivors are posted in this album.
Based on this formulation, having Matt Pond PA perform in my living room is now a pattern. For this third visit, they offered the tickets to their Facebook friends. My friend Ed & I divvied up the other tickets to a few friends. For the third time in a row, we broke the living room attendance record, as we climbed from 37 last July to 44 in October to 47 on Friday, February 19. That number includes both Matt Pond and Chris Hansen, but does not include Tulip, who spent the pre-concert and post-concert period walking up to people and inducing them to pet her, with significant success. It also does not include however many people watched on Periscope.
The Band
Matt Pond
Chris Hansen
The Hosts
Me
Ed, of Chasing Infinity fame
People Who Were At All Three House Concerts
Jen & Courtney
Bill & Dawn
Leanne & JV
M
Brandt, of The Cream of Broccoli Radio Hour
People Who Were at Two of the Three House Concerts
Rich, of The MP3 Removal Squad
Lily, of Sweet and Lowdown
gieves, of Exploding Plastic Inevitable
People Who Drove More Than Two Hours To Attend
Cyrus & Mika - a couple from Pittsburgh
Ali & Christa - sisters from Detroit
People From Local Bands
Amy, from Heavenly Creatures
Tony & Matt, from Aloha (came in late)
Other People
Candy, spouse of Brandt
Jackie, spouse of Rich
Brian
Jim & Jennifer
Kelly, came with Courtney & Jen
Eric & Caroline
Sarah & Kevin (came in late)
Annie & Ed
Claire
Brian
Tara and Mark
Whitney & Greg
Michael
Nicole
Jenny & Joe
Chris & Megan
Kris, came with M
All names are approximate.
It was Candy's birthday, so I got a sheet cake from Elmwood Bakery and Ed bought a lot of ice cream. There were leftovers, probably because people polished off 41 bottles of beer, 14 cans of beer, 1 bottle of wine, two shooters of wine and 5 cans of assorted non-alcoholic beverages. In other news, I'm still a little anal retentive. There was also a lot of beer left in the fridge. I brought a bunch over to butterandjelly's birthday party the next night, along with the rest of the cake, but I still handily have a dozen beers taking up space in my fridge.
The show itself was superb. Matt took requests from the crowd more than he had during the past two shows, and I think he played some new songs. Afterwards, he had a large variety of merchandise available to sell, because they had recently discovered that one of their old labels left some 500 pounds of assorted merch (vinyl, t-shirts, CDs, stickers, bags, posters) in Cleveland. The people storing it got sick of harassing the label about it, so they reached out to Matt, and he picked it up before the show. I scored a sweet poster and one album I didn't have previously.
Things I learned this time:
- Capacity for my living room is 50 people. More than that is not possible, unless we take out all the chairs and make everybody stand.
- We're going to give up on giving out dessert at house concerts, or alternately stick with something like cookies that doesn't require serving. After drinking booze, people aren't interested in dessert.
- I really need to get anyone who attends a house concert to give me their email so we can announce any other house concerts I may host in the future.
Also, I took some photos. Most didn't turn out, but the few survivors are posted in this album.