January 18, 2007
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This past night, I went to "the Knitting Factory" music venue in Hollywood, for my first "Meg & Dia" concert of 2007! Since I've already been there once last year, it felt really comfortable going back to a venue I've been to before. I showed up early this time, and ended up mingling with a couple of other Meg & Dia fans from the band's message board, as well as get early meetings with the band members (except for Meg). I'm making an attempt to catch Meg & Dia at all their Southern California shows, but these other fans beats me by actually making all of them. For the most part, I was just kicking back and letting them do all the talking. The other fans seem to get along so personally well with the crew and the band members as well, that I honestly felt a little out of place. But I'm an observer at heart, so no biggie.
By the time we got inside the venue, one of the first things we did was plant ourselves at the front of the stage. Gotta be up close to the band you know. I set myself up at the front side corner, and have more or less a good enough angle for my camera to take pictures and videos. The first band that played was "House of Fools," and they weren't bad at all. It's a traditional rock band and they definitely have their own thing going for them. I enjoyed their performance, but unfortunately don't see myself picking up their CD. The next artist after that is "Ronnie Day," who I have also seen before already. I consider myself a fan of his now since then, and even bought his CD "The Album" when it was released. He actually performed several new songs that weren't in his just released CD, so that was a surprise. He did play several of my favorite songs, but left out some that I wish he did play. All in all, he was great for being just one guy on stage with a guitar.
Next up was Meg & Dia, and not to be too biased, but they were the best performance of the night. This was also the first time I get to see the newer guitar players, and one of them is Filipino; which pleases me. The setlist for this tour is changed a bit compared to their previous ones, because they now have a keyboard for several of their songs. Meg & Dia started out the show with a song I've never really heard of before called "Yellowbutterfly," and unfortunately I wasn't quick enough to get my camera out in time to record the whole thing. I was able to get videos of the rest of their setlist though, which includes their first cover song that is the Killers' "When you were young," as well as Meg by herself performing "Rebecca." Speaking of Meg, she was extra hot wearing those knee high socks, yowza! Dia was also looking cute with her "Where's Waldo-esque" striped shirt.
In between Meg & Dia's set and the final main act, I decided to chat a bit with the female photographer that's right next to me. She introduced herself as Alexis and she apparently works for the Daily Trojan, which is a college newspaper, and that she was hired as a photojournalist to cover this event. Being a little forgetful, I mistakenly said that it was a UCLA paper. She was amused by my lack of college football teams knowledge, correcting me that it's actually a USC paper. We talked about her job, her taste in music, college, her SLR camera, and my digital camera. She did say that she's never heard of any of the bands, however she did say she liked Meg & Dia the best. Sweet, and goes to show that they are a phenomenal live band. Right before the next act went on, I amusingly asked her what the mascot of UCLA was.
The final act was "Daphne loves Derby," and I have to honestly say that while they weren't bad, a lot of their songs didn't really light up the stage. There were a lot of slower type songs, that didn't really get the crowd rocking out. I suppose I have to remind myself that this is primarily an acoustic tour, so there's a reason to that. Still not bad, but following after Meg & Dia, who was still rocking out in a more acoustic setlist can't be easy.
Afterwards, I mingled some more with my message board friends, and chatted a bit with Ronnie Day, Meg, Carlo, Dia, Hannah, and John Cheese. I also took photos with some of them. I also asked Meg that after The Killers' cover song, what do they plan to do next. She said that it's going to be somebody old, so I suggested The Beatles, and she liked that idea. I wanted to have a group shot of me with Meg and Dia, but for some reason, when one is present, the other isn't. It's like "wait, where's Dia?" or "where did Meg go?" I never did get that group photo with them that night, but I can try again at their next show.
Another great night with the Meg & Dia band. I love it.
Comments (3)
hmmm i'll have to wait for the videos then cause i'm too lazy to go search for their music lol
I just updated all the videos, yay!
thx lol cause only the meg and dia one didn't work. the pet one worked fine =)
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