Early-career bills are a gamble that pays off about one time in four, and the one time is worth the other three. Three acts this early means nobody has a fixed show yet, so what you get is people still figuring out what they are in front of an audience small enough to be forgiving about it. Sometimes that is rough. Occasionally you watch somebody find the thing, live, in real time, and you spend the next two years telling people you were there. A Monday night on El Cajon Boulevard, which means the room will not be full and the bands will play like it is anyway, because at this stage every show counts the same. Seven, around $23. Doors are early and the last set is done before eleven. Weeknight bills are the part of San Diego music that never gets written up, which is precisely why the people who go to them are so far ahead of everybody else.
Early-career bills are a gamble that pays off about one time in four, and the one time is worth the other three. Three acts this early means nobody has a fixed show yet, so what you get is people still figuring out what they are in front of an audience small enough to be forgiving about it. Sometimes that is rough. Occasionally you watch somebody find the thing, live, in real time, and you spend the next two years telling people you were there. A Monday night on El Cajon Boulevard, which means the room will not be full and the bands will play like it is anyway, because at this stage every show counts the same. Seven, around $23. Doors are early and the last set is done before eleven. Weeknight bills are the part of San Diego music that never gets written up, which is precisely why the people who go to them are so far ahead of everybody else.
Early-career bills are a gamble that pays off about one time in four, and the one time is worth the other three. Three acts this early means nobody has a fixed show yet, so what you get is people still figuring out what they are in front of an audience small enough to be forgiving about it. Sometimes that is rough. Occasionally you watch somebody find the thing, live, in real time, and you spend the next two years telling people you were there. A Monday night on El Cajon Boulevard, which means the room will not be full and the bands will play like it is anyway, because at this stage every show counts the same. Seven, around $23. Doors are early and the last set is done before eleven. Weeknight bills are the part of San Diego music that never gets written up, which is precisely why the people who go to them are so far ahead of everybody else.