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the el rey: tap beer!
3April 25th, 2008bands, the el rey, venues
i love going to see opening bands when i don’t care about the main act. it’s awesome. i get to stand right up front in a semi-empty venue and watch the band as the rest of the crowd (who will have to wait hours until the show starts) pours in. and going home before the main act begins means i don’t have 3 hours of downtime, with nothing to do except drink ridiculously expensive and shitty bottled beer, as i wait for them to take the stage.
so, imagine how happy i was when i went to see the fuck buttons open for caribou at the el rey, and i found out the bar was selling large cups of tap beer. they were plastic cups, i admit, and they cost $8…but they were 20 oz! budweiser, bud light, and even stella were all readily available. now i know even if i need to go see a headliner at the el rey and stand around waiting for several hours, at least i can pass the time by drinking cold draught stella.
on a side note, the fuck buttons were awesome…totally unique. it’s not like at every show you get to see someone screaming unintelligible ramblings into a fisher price microphone.
here is one of their tracks that i quite enjoy.
sweet love for planet earthi recommend checking them out while they are still an opening act, then you can leave when they are done and still get home early just like i did! 🙂 i know that makes me sound fucking old, but going to gigs is a stressful hassle. thank god i always have the beer to rely on.
overall, the el rey bar gets a B! I love the fact that they have stella on tap, but have to take some points off for the high prices and the plastic cups.
Tags: bands, beer, concerts, el rey, fuck buttons, gigs
1 responses to “the el rey: tap beer!” 
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there is a lot to read on your blog, and now i read this one.
you walked out on caribou???
wow.
i saw them 3 times, once at spaceland, once at echo, and once at ???, or maybe it was 2 times, once as manitoba and once as caribou.
regardless, there was a lot of beer, dueling drummers, living, breathing man-cats that played a musical chairs procession of instruments, a big video of weirdness, and a mind-blowing set.i have never heard of the fuck buttons before, but that mp3 you have loaded is pretty cool. i am learning a lot from this blog.
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