where is my mind?

So I went to go see Mike Doughty play at the Jewish Mother on Friday night. I was way disappointed and it had nothing to do with Mike's performance. He was great. Why does the Jewish Mother have all those tables that are so inconveniently placed? The people who were sitting, were getting mad at the people standing and they could have fit about 100 more people in that place if they just took the tables out. The audience was horrible... really rude and the bartenders were yelling out drink orders while he was playing. There's nothing worse than watching an acoustic show that is pretty mellow and having some bartender walk through yelling, "2 Bud Lights and a Heineken!" I'm glad Mike called him out on it too... go Mike go! Oh yeah... and the tone deaf dude standing to the right of me? He was singing louder than the artist on stage. Every lyric to every song. The guy to my left? Air guitar. Van Halen style. The whole time. Mike Doughty, we love you and apologize on behalf of Virginia Beach. Also, I heard a rumor that the Jewish Mother might start booking more punk shows. I'm guessing they will refuse to remove all the tables for those shows as well. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Anywaaaay, enough about that.

The lead singer of Gomez, Ian Ball, has released a solo record and we're liking it! It's a little more mellow than Gomez, but still has those catchy hooks. Check out the downloads below!

:: Download "I Knew You Were Trouble" by Ian Ball here ::
:: Download "Failure" by Ian Ball here ::