This Halloween weekend I had the opportunity to go to Minneapolis for the weekend (because I have a car). It... was... AWESOME. So much happened and I wish I could just sit here and tell you all about it but I'll have to just hit the main points. I had three students I've never met before come up with me (they pitched in for gas) and we made it safely to Minneapolis. That night Kevnea, Ronnie Rainey, and I went to a place in Dinkytown (an artsy area by the U of M campus) called Mesa Pizza, and they have precooked pizza (sounds gross, but just wait till you hear the rest) of the weirdest varieties. Alfredo, taco, potato, quesadilla, nacho, spaghetti, chicken pot pie, and tonnnnnnnns of other kinds of pizza by the slice to choose from!!!! And they all tasted so good! After that, Kevnea dropped Ronnie and I off downtown at First Avenue where we attended a MUMFORD AND SONS CONCERT.
This was a fantastic night. I was nervous because we paid a butt-load for our tickets (125 each... they were originally 20 bucks...) and I didn't want to be disappointed. I wasn't. King Charles and Cadillac Sky were the opening bands, and I had never even heard of them. Ronnie and I had a plan to get to the front of the crowd, but that didn't work. We were, in the end, separated and I was pushed off to the side of the stage, but it was right up front. It turned out to be the best place in the house, here's why:
The opening guy, King Charles, stepped out onto stage in tights and a 17th century style suit with his massively long hair piled on top of his head. Needless to say, laughter erupted from the crowd. It didn't help that no one had even heard of this guy before. He came out and in an English accent said, "I must tell you, Cadillac Sky and Mumford and Sons are two of the most incredible bands in the world." He barely got this sentence out because people were laughing at his appearance. So, to spite us, he began to sing acapella. Everyone silenced. We were shocked. This guy was amazing. He went on to do an amazingly fun performance. HERE'S THE BEST PART: During his performance these guys kept walking around me and squeezing by, and a couple of them were breathing down my neck. One guy asked if I was single and looking and said he was single and looking... I declined his inference. I was tired of them brushing me and invading my personal space (or lack there of). Well... next thing I know, they left. I thought " I wonder where they went to... there's no room to move anywhere..." and as I thought this, Cadillac Sky began to play on stage. I looked up and there before my eyes were the guys who were bursting my bubble. CADILLAC SKY. HOW DID I NOT KNOW. I also got touched on the shoulder and winked by Marcus Mumford and shook King Charles hand. Why, you ask? I asked this myself. Turns out the door I was standing by happened to be the door the bands go in and out of to enter the stage. AWESOME NIGHT. Mumford and Sons were incredible, and they ended playing a song with King Charles AND Cadillac Sky all together. So fun. I loved it. So that was that.
I also had many other adventures in Minneapolis but don't have the time to write them (or the heart to put you through all of it). But I'll leave you with a video of King Charles and Mumford and Sons. If you want to see videos of the concert I was at, youtube "Mumford and Sons at First Ave" and "King Charles at First Ave".
Toodles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KkUeRPjc-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIB0T8rUJxI
This was a fantastic night. I was nervous because we paid a butt-load for our tickets (125 each... they were originally 20 bucks...) and I didn't want to be disappointed. I wasn't. King Charles and Cadillac Sky were the opening bands, and I had never even heard of them. Ronnie and I had a plan to get to the front of the crowd, but that didn't work. We were, in the end, separated and I was pushed off to the side of the stage, but it was right up front. It turned out to be the best place in the house, here's why:
The opening guy, King Charles, stepped out onto stage in tights and a 17th century style suit with his massively long hair piled on top of his head. Needless to say, laughter erupted from the crowd. It didn't help that no one had even heard of this guy before. He came out and in an English accent said, "I must tell you, Cadillac Sky and Mumford and Sons are two of the most incredible bands in the world." He barely got this sentence out because people were laughing at his appearance. So, to spite us, he began to sing acapella. Everyone silenced. We were shocked. This guy was amazing. He went on to do an amazingly fun performance. HERE'S THE BEST PART: During his performance these guys kept walking around me and squeezing by, and a couple of them were breathing down my neck. One guy asked if I was single and looking and said he was single and looking... I declined his inference. I was tired of them brushing me and invading my personal space (or lack there of). Well... next thing I know, they left. I thought " I wonder where they went to... there's no room to move anywhere..." and as I thought this, Cadillac Sky began to play on stage. I looked up and there before my eyes were the guys who were bursting my bubble. CADILLAC SKY. HOW DID I NOT KNOW. I also got touched on the shoulder and winked by Marcus Mumford and shook King Charles hand. Why, you ask? I asked this myself. Turns out the door I was standing by happened to be the door the bands go in and out of to enter the stage. AWESOME NIGHT. Mumford and Sons were incredible, and they ended playing a song with King Charles AND Cadillac Sky all together. So fun. I loved it. So that was that.
I also had many other adventures in Minneapolis but don't have the time to write them (or the heart to put you through all of it). But I'll leave you with a video of King Charles and Mumford and Sons. If you want to see videos of the concert I was at, youtube "Mumford and Sons at First Ave" and "King Charles at First Ave".
Toodles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KkUeRPjc-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIB0T8rUJxI
