Review: Matt Harnish Live in My Living Room!
I was bound to host a house concert that was poorly attended at some point, and regrettably Matt Harnish was it. Heck, because unbeknownst to me Matt brought along an opening act, for a while it looked like the bands would nearly match the audience. Fortunately, that didn't happen, but only barely. Our attendance was:
The Bands
Matt
Googolplexia (aka, Rob)
The Hosts
Me
Brandt, host of "The Cream of Broccoli Radio Hour" (late)
Guests
M
Lily, host of "Sweet and Lowdown"
And that was it. Despite many other "maybes" and a few other "yeses", we had four people in the audience, and Brandt actually missed Googolplexia's opening act. Heck, even Tulip was not there because I was flying to Texas the next morning and had already dropped her off at overnight care.
It's a shame everyone missed it, because the show was a lot of fun. Googolplexia is sort of a low budget Weird Al, complete with Hawaiian shirt. He did a lot of weird short songs on a variety of instruments, including something accordion like. Then Matt came on and performed some of his own songs, some Bunnygrunt songs, and to Lily's unending delight, a Sparks song. (Lily loves Sparks).
The show completed, we hung out and chatted for some time. We may have only had six people, but we did kill a lot of alcohol (21 by my count). At one point we stood out in the driveway and did beer out of the octo-bong (eight legs). I threw some money at their well stocked merch table. Most notably, I now have a tour t-shirt with my name on it, because they put the gig calendar on the shirt and listed "May 20 @ Nathan's", so that's super exciting. I even found it in a decent color.
Thus ended my eighth house concert. I'm not really sure what happened. Both Brandt & I tapped our networks extensively, and although Matt isn't as well known as some of the past performers, he wasn't unknown and it was a Friday night. Fortunately, Matt and Rob didn't seem too disappointed by the lack of turnout (none of their people showed up either). They'd had a gig scheduled for Thursday and Saturday and were happy to have something to fill the Friday. I'm sure they would have preferred more people, but it beat nothing, barely.
EDIT: Figured it out. This is the first house concert where I didn't offer free ice cream. Guess I'll have to bring that back!
The Bands
Matt
Googolplexia (aka, Rob)
The Hosts
Me
Brandt, host of "The Cream of Broccoli Radio Hour" (late)
Guests
M
Lily, host of "Sweet and Lowdown"
And that was it. Despite many other "maybes" and a few other "yeses", we had four people in the audience, and Brandt actually missed Googolplexia's opening act. Heck, even Tulip was not there because I was flying to Texas the next morning and had already dropped her off at overnight care.
It's a shame everyone missed it, because the show was a lot of fun. Googolplexia is sort of a low budget Weird Al, complete with Hawaiian shirt. He did a lot of weird short songs on a variety of instruments, including something accordion like. Then Matt came on and performed some of his own songs, some Bunnygrunt songs, and to Lily's unending delight, a Sparks song. (Lily loves Sparks).
The show completed, we hung out and chatted for some time. We may have only had six people, but we did kill a lot of alcohol (21 by my count). At one point we stood out in the driveway and did beer out of the octo-bong (eight legs). I threw some money at their well stocked merch table. Most notably, I now have a tour t-shirt with my name on it, because they put the gig calendar on the shirt and listed "May 20 @ Nathan's", so that's super exciting. I even found it in a decent color.
Thus ended my eighth house concert. I'm not really sure what happened. Both Brandt & I tapped our networks extensively, and although Matt isn't as well known as some of the past performers, he wasn't unknown and it was a Friday night. Fortunately, Matt and Rob didn't seem too disappointed by the lack of turnout (none of their people showed up either). They'd had a gig scheduled for Thursday and Saturday and were happy to have something to fill the Friday. I'm sure they would have preferred more people, but it beat nothing, barely.
EDIT: Figured it out. This is the first house concert where I didn't offer free ice cream. Guess I'll have to bring that back!