Old 97’s - The Ghost Room, Austin TX - October 14, 2010


[from Dallas TX] starting with the unnecessary apostrophe, this band irritates me – they have a song here or there that sticks in my head (“Designs on You”) but there’s a general earnest blandness about them that makes me tune out – their show was lively and we did have the good fortune to run into the WittyDrummer – not to mention it was a $20 show for which we’d won free tickets so there really wasn’t a question of whether or not we were going – the peak of my irritation was probably when the song “Question” came on with all its cutesy pseudo-witticisms: “someday somebody's gonna ask you, the question that you should say yes to, once in your life, maybe tonight I've got a question – I’m telling you, if anyone ever proposed to me with that sort of a lead-in, I never would have been dating them to start with - I also enjoyed watching the guy in the beret with the wacky face hair who did a drunken interpretive dance to every single song and was eventually shirtless and spinning any nearby female around in the middle of a very packed crowd. (Photo courtesy of https://www.statesman.com/entertainment/music/watch-old-perform-holly-jolly-christmas-the-austin360-studio/yHBLc73z1Z9c2BsIa8kGZO/)

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