Jenny and I made it home late Sunday evening from a fun and eventful weekend in Columbus (and Newark), OH. We went up to visit Amber (Jenny's best friend from college) and Paul who live in Newark (which is just slightly east of Columbus). We spent the weekend with them and had a very fun time. Paul reintroduced me to Miller High Life Light, which I hadn't drank since college. It was all good. On Saturday we ate at a fancy Japanese restaurant. Needless to say we dominated some Sushi. One of the pieces of sushi that Jenny ate was a wrap and it looked like a ice cream cone of sushi. So that was pretty funny. We also drank some chilled sake which added positively to the meal.
Another element of the trip was attending the Killer's concert in Columbus at the Promo West Pavillion (now known as the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion). I've been to this venue twice (it is acutally a duel venue) but only to the inside venue (two Ryan Adams concerts). The inside place is a larger more modern take on something like the Vogue in Indy. It holds approx. 2,000 people. But the Killer's concert was outside. This outside venue lies behind the indoor part and is like a miature version of Deer Creek. It holds close to 4,000 people (but no seats like a Deer Creek). This place also as a large bar connected to the venues for both public and concert viewing crowds.
An interesting aspect of this venue is that While Castle must have a business interest in this place. Not only is the bar called House of Crave but they were serving White Castles (not in the bar...although it looked like they have before) at the outside venue. I know it was very un-Maddux like but I didn't eat any Whitle Castles. Two reasons for this...I was full from the sushi (like I said...I dominated it) but also because it was rainy very hard. I didn't want soggy White Castles.
Yes it did rain on us...the concert was rain or shine but considering the lack of rain-fall that has fallen this summer I didn't think for one minute that it would actually rain. Jenny and I got pretty drenched until we realized that we could access the bar area with our ticket stubs. So we hung out in the bar for over two hours waiting for the Killer's to take the stage. Apologies to Louis XIV, who opened for the Killers. We missed them.
About the show...
It rocked. It was one of the best shows that I've seen. They really put on a rocking performance. To me a great show is accomplished when the band sounds like one would expect while kicking it up a notch on the rock meter. Brandon Flowers is the quintessential lead singer of a rock band. He is very theatrical and just commands the crowd like a good lead singer should. He loves to fist pump while singing so I think it is funny to assume that the band just cranked out their latest album with rock anthems on it solely so Brandon could fist pump on stage. But even many of their songs from their first album have that larger than life sound that sounded great at a live show.
The show could have been a little longer...I think it lasted between 100-120 minutes. But their songs aren't long...they only have two albums...and let's face it...they aren't a jam band so no need to do something that they aren't. Plus I don't always like it when bands just jam incessantly.
Overall...we had a great weekend visiting friends and enjoying a kick-ass concert.
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congrats on the good sushi and concert. some info on sushi, the ice cream cone shaped sushi that jenny got is called a hand roll. i'm glad you like sake. maybe now i'll have someone to drink it with.
you better step up to some whitecastle when i'm in town. i thoroughly plan on dominating a ten sack of sliders. i gotta look up locations. maybe there's a whitecastle around monument circle.
keep it real, b.
don't worry Sam...I'm in on White Castles. I know that there is a White Castle in the southern part of downtown.
oh snap!
i've had the crave for a couple of months now. be seeing you in a couple o' weeks.
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