Four of the Music Desk's favorite bands, Ratboys, Foxing, Ought and Real Estate, all played highly anticipated shows in Atlanta last weekend. The Music Desk didn't see any of them.
Friday night, Ratboys opened for Foxing at The Masquerade. The Music Desk blames the Work Desk for making us miss that show by getting us up too early Friday morning, subjecting us to a stressful day at work, and then finally dumping us off into intolerable rush-hour traffic after the day was over to the point where the last thing we wanted to do when we finally got home was to get back into our car and jump back into it all over again. Besides, we rationalized, there are some great shows we could catch Sunday night instead.
The Music Desk blames the Sports Desk and the Fantasy Desk (aka the Games Desk) for missing the Sunday night shows. Sure, there was a choice to be made - the hyper-literate Montreal band Ought was playing in East Atlanta Village at the venerable Earl, while the Brooklyn dream-pop band Real Estate was conveniently just down the road at Terminal West. But the Sports Desk had us watching the New England Patriots-Houston Toxins game Sunday afternoon (the Patriots won!) followed by the surprisingly exciting Chicago-Green Bay game, and then the Fantasy Desk (aka the Games Desk) convinced us that we'd rather stay in and play No Man's Sky (more on that in a later post) that evening instead of going out to hear music.
So we wound up seeing and hearing absolutely nothing last weekend and just stayed at home watching football and playing video games. The real irony of all this is that we remembered that part of the reason we didn't go to Raleigh's Hopscotch Festival, briefly mentioned in yesterday's post, was because many of the bands performing at Hopscotch, such as Ought and Real Estate, would be continuing their tours and passing through Atlanta, so not only did we miss going to the festival, we missed the festival coming to us.
The Music Desk is getting paranoid that the Work Desk and the Sports Desk and the Fantasy Desk (aka the Games Desk) have it out for the Music Desk and are trying to sabotage its interests, and the Music Desk would like to remind the other desks that it doesn't do anything to interfere with their interests, so why all the hate?
The Music Desk is getting paranoid that the Work Desk and the Sports Desk and the Fantasy Desk (aka the Games Desk) have it out for the Music Desk and are trying to sabotage its interests, and the Music Desk would like to remind the other desks that it doesn't do anything to interfere with their interests, so why all the hate?
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