Local 506
11/11/2011
I celebrated the meaningless adulation of the date 11/11/11 by going to see The Sea & Cake in Chapel Hill. I saw them for the the first time in this same town (no big surprise there), only at the Cat's Cradle with Trans Am and Tractor Hips opening on May 4th, 1997. No, I'm not some sort of date savant, I've still got a poster I bought at the show on my wall (a poster by Casey Burns, no less). I've seen them maybe one or two other times since then, and a couple of Sam Prekop solo shows, but you just don't get that many opportunities to see the great band live.
Given the age and style of this band, is it sexist to mention how surprised I was that there were so many young attractive women at the gig? Probably. But I was expecting a bunch of middle aged men with beards to dominate the audience, and certainly there were plenty of "us" there, but the ratio was actually decent. Of course, you really only notice this kind of crap between bands, and once the Sea & Cake started playing it's almost like I'm transported into a world where they are playing a private concert just for me. Some bands are like this - they always have been. And of course, they put on a stellar performance as you would expect from this group of seasoned professionals, playing a lot of their newer material with a few classics sprinkled in. I'm terrible with song names with this band, but I know they played some of my favorites like "The Argument" off of "The Fawn" and "Leeora" plus something else off "The Biz" and thankfully about halfway through they played "Jacking the Ball" from their self-titled album so that asshole who screamed out for between every single song finally shut the fuck up. Have I mentioned how much I hate these sorts of people? If I were in a band I'd refuse to play whatever song was being yelled out purely out of spite.
Anyways, good show. Hopefully they don't wait so many years to come back again. The word needs more bands like this.
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