Sunday night shows are attended almost exclusively by people who wanted to be there, which changes the room more than any other single variable.
No obligation crowd, no work-week bravado, nobody killing time before something else. Two acts, a dive bar, and maybe eighty people who each made a small deliberate choice to end their weekend standing up in front of a stage rather than lying down in front of a screen. Bands notice it and tend to play differently — looser, more talkative, more willing to try the new one.
Doors at seven, music at eight, which means you are out and home at a defensible hour.
October 18, Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd. Bring whoever has been saying you two should do something. There is live music in this city literally every night of the week, and the Sunday and Monday versions are consistently the warmest rooms of the seven.
Sunday night shows are attended almost exclusively by people who wanted to be there, which changes the room more than any other single variable.
No obligation crowd, no work-week bravado, nobody killing time before something else. Two acts, a dive bar, and maybe eighty people who each made a small deliberate choice to end their weekend standing up in front of a stage rather than lying down in front of a screen. Bands notice it and tend to play differently — looser, more talkative, more willing to try the new one.
Doors at seven, music at eight, which means you are out and home at a defensible hour.
October 18, Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd. Bring whoever has been saying you two should do something. There is live music in this city literally every night of the week, and the Sunday and Monday versions are consistently the warmest rooms of the seven.
Sunday night shows are attended almost exclusively by people who wanted to be there, which changes the room more than any other single variable.
No obligation crowd, no work-week bravado, nobody killing time before something else. Two acts, a dive bar, and maybe eighty people who each made a small deliberate choice to end their weekend standing up in front of a stage rather than lying down in front of a screen. Bands notice it and tend to play differently — looser, more talkative, more willing to try the new one.
Doors at seven, music at eight, which means you are out and home at a defensible hour.
October 18, Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd. Bring whoever has been saying you two should do something. There is live music in this city literally every night of the week, and the Sunday and Monday versions are consistently the warmest rooms of the seven.