Wow, this show sounds like it's going to be badass! Options

[edstipe]

Eddie Kowalczyk of LIVE
February 9, 2009
Hotel Cafe
Los Angeles, CA

I did a little research and discovered the following:

Citysearch:
Winner for best live music venue in L.A., 2006 http://losangeles.citysearch.com/bestof/wi...ive_music_venue

Paste Magazine:
Voted one of America's Top 40 best music venues.
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2007...sic-venues.html

And finally:
Location(s) Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active 2000–present
Capacity 165
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Caf%C3%A9


Capacity 165? Talk about intimate!

[edstipe]

I edited with the correct (and in order) setlist.

A few other quick, random notes from the show:

- The opening act was supposed to start at 7:00 with Ed on at 8:00, but everything ran late. The reason? Ed arrived late. I was sitting in the front section of the cafe at around 7:30 when he came in through the door with his tech guy, looking somewhat confused. I gave him a quick "what's up Ed?" before he figured out where the performer's entrance was. Could have been due to the venue itself -- the performers are made to park and enter the place exactly the same way that customers do, which I'm sure he's not used to.

- Ed was sporting a scarf throughout most of the show. After a few songs he was sweating like a pig, and at one point someone in the show shouted to him to take off the scarf. He kind of gave a "no duh" look and took it off. The same woman shouted that she would hold it for him, but Ed said that he got it from the pope, so he couldn't let anyone else touch it.

- Ed introduced "Mirror Song" by telling a story about how he wrote it after watching an episode of Phil Donahue when he was 19-20. Something about Harrison Ford (I think) saying something along the lines of "I give because I have" and being inspired by it.

- Ed led the crowd into singing the Doooh-doooh parts of "Forever." Kind of interesting given the very small crowd.

- After the first song Ed asked for a whisky. Said something about it being a whisky kind of night because whisky warms you up. Sure enough, by the next song he had a whisky.

- At the end of "Lighting Crashes," Ed added a few extra refrains -- "I can feel love coming back again," "I can feel hope coming back again," etc.



This post has been edited by edstipe: Feb 10 2009, 7:52 pm