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The entire Boys Noize/Baauer tour was pulled, so anyone looking to that for a pre party for Voodoo must look elsewhere :/
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I got Amon Amarth that Monday and am still considering moon taxi that Thursday but its saints panthers. I figured i would go watch at Ryan's Irish Pub next door to hob and just go late to moon taxi if I go out. There is a rumor around town that pretty lights might do an after party show at sugar mill which is also rumored to start doing edm shows again. I'll believe it when it's announced, because there are always rumors. Pretty Lights is apparently living here now, which I didn't know. In any event, he was at the Break Science show last night. Show was freaking great and featured Big Sam on trombone and I think Eric Bloom out of lettuce on trumpet for a bunch of songs. It was raucous and funky. That was the 4th time I've seen them and probably the best show yet.
Am I the only one not from NOLA who hates when this thread gets bumped for general NOLA stuff? Every time I'm like "Ohhh, must be another late night show announcement" or something equally interesting related to the festival.
I figured I'd throw you a bone and deliver a show. Maybe someone posted already, and apologies if so, but Mystikal is playing Thursday October 30 at Tips around midnight.
The entire Boys Noize/Baauer tour was pulled, so anyone looking to that for a pre party for Voodoo must look elsewhere :/
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I got Amon Amarth that Monday and am still considering moon taxi that Thursday but its saints panthers. I figured i would go watch at Ryan's Irish Pub next door to hob and just go late to moon taxi if I go out. There is a rumor around town that pretty lights might do an after party show at sugar mill which is also rumored to start doing edm shows again. I'll believe it when it's announced, because there are always rumors. Pretty Lights is apparently living here now, which I didn't know. In any event, he was at the Break Science show last night. Show was freaking great and featured Big Sam on trombone and I think Eric Bloom out of lettuce on trumpet for a bunch of songs. It was raucous and funky. That was the 4th time I've seen them and probably the best show yet.
Adam Deitch did dual drumming with Stanton for Galactic's encore of Africa in Biloxi last night. It was pretty f'n amazing! That black chick they got singing with them is realllllllly good.
Kinda want to go back to that Kress Live venue for Insane Clown Posse in a couple of weeks to see the place get trashed. People watching at an ICP show in Mississippi would hit eXtreme levels of lulz.
Decent festival lineup, atrocious late night lineup, especially considering how many great acts they have in town.
Agree'd.
Reading this made me realize....where dafuck is George Porter Jr. at all weekend??
Just went to his website and it has a superjam listed at Howlin' Wolf on 11/1/14 that hasn't been announced yet.
George Porter Jr. Stanton Moore Donald Harrison Big Sam Brian Stoltz "and a few others"
One set 90 minutes time TBA.
Surely there will be more acts on this lineup. Already got the rsvp to the Thundercat/Peanut Butter Wolf free show at OEJ but who knows, it's good to have options, especially after the super weak Saturday lineup of Voodoo.
The Maple Leaf hasn't announced what they have going on on 10/31 and 11/1 either. Still a lot of shows to be announced.
Want to try and hit up the Johnny V & special guests show at the Leaf on Devil's Night.
Nice offer. I'm too tired to get out tonight. I found some new Voodoo stories out there. The first is a new Quintron and Miss Pussycat audio, linked to nola.com via Brooklyn Vegan, ahead of a new album. You can listen to it within this article.
The other appears to be an overview from another local site. I haven't read this one, and I haven't watched or listened to Quintron's song yet, so I don't have any comments to offer yet.
I heard from Voodoo today about a couple of things.
1) Cubes are now up to date. There were some time issues in the first release, but everything should now be fixed.
2) Food Vendors list will be out by the end of the week. I find the food options there also pretty exciting. It's not Jazzfest level, but it's definitely Top Few rock fest food options. I still favored the Yakiniku Po-boy by Ninja the best last year (minus mayo/cheese but adding sesame seeds). I scarfed 4 of those at French Quarter Fest this year (1 for each of the days I showed up). Love me some Ninja Yakiniku. I'll look forward to comparison and contrast once they release.
Nothing jumped out at me as being overly exotic at first glance. Looks like typical options for standard stuff you would expect beyond burgers/pizza/wrap stuff, if you were here in town. Somebody had a seafood bread bowl, so I'll go back and review and edit in what I think.
What I am interested in: possibly Big Fellas. I don't know them, and since Voodoo food prices are generally on the low side, and theirs aren't, that's probably a hint that it's not just some generic 'skewer'.
Cafe Navarre has duck quesadillas and shrimp and corn bisque. Those sound decent.
Cortazzo's seafood bread bowl with pasta or bisque looks interesting.
A couple of crawfish and alligator dishes, nola pho life I hear is usually pretty good, mostly other nola or fest stuff. I dont know most of the vendors, but I've eaten crepes a la cart and woodys fish tacos. Both were decent.
Overall, there's nothing earth shattering, but there is enough there to interest me to see what some of these people are putting out. Looks like potential for 2.5 to maybe 4 out of 5 depending on quality and execution and maybe surprise factor if a generic sounding menu item has its game raised. One thing is there is enough variety that no one is going to have to settle if they don't want to.
I'm looking for some cheap places to stay. Is that a thing?
I heard there's some really cheap and pretty nice B&Bs in the area. One of my coworkers said their friends stay there every time they come to visit. I'll see if I can find out which one
For the Foo Fighters fans - they are scheduled to be the house band on letterman all next week, so you might want to tune in. At the bottom of the link below is a trailer for their upcoming HBO special, Sonic Highways. Dave explains how the project is a way to sort of unravel the history of music in America by recording songs in 8 different US cities with substantial musical history (New Orleans, LA, NYC, Seattle, Chicao, Austin, Nashville and Washington DC). This includes (apparently) lotsa collaborations. Mentioned in the trailer or pictures include Shorty, Bonnie Raite(sp?), Chuck D. Buddy Guy, Bad Brains. Willie Nelson, and a ton of others. AppArently Shorty is on the NOLA track and went up on stage at the surprise Preservation Hall show the weekend of Hangout fest. So expect him on stage when Foo Fighters play Voodoo.
I wonder if the Foos are gonna do something at Preservation Hall Saturday or Sunday night.
Late night schedule lookin' pretty solid right now: (always subject to change though) Thurs: House of Shock > Who Dat? > The Trio @ Maple Leaf Fri: M.O.M.S Ball Sat: Howlin' Wolf Superjam or Karl Denson/Frenchmen Street Nitrous Fest
Damn. That's super bad-***. It would probably be tough to crawl there from Mid City after Day #2 of Voodoo, but if we're doing any night shows over the 3 day festival weekend, that would certainly be at the top of the list. Dumpstaphunk at Blue Nile is up there too, but we have 2 sets a couple of weeks down the road at Bear Creek.
I like that it's clearly broken up into two sets on the flyer.
Last year's Monsters of Funk party was tight dick as fuckk. The majority of the people at the show missed the rager first set featuring June Yamagishi and GPJ because they were dicking off in Panic lot at UNO buying 2 for $20 N20 like custies.
I remember this spreadneck I know comes up to me and tells me "you're an idiot, you f'n blew it" because I was at NIN that night. Dude's opinions have been basically worthless since that night, hahahaha
Yeah, really. I don't want to hate on Panic since I know a lot of people who are into them. I just never really paid any attention to them beyond guessing I'd see them at a festival some day. But give me that f'n spectacular Big Gigantic set followed by the emotionally charged NIN set over that 365 days a year. It's not even close. Blew it? Damn. That's weak.
Speaking of weak, one of you guys has to make a thread for Gulf Coast shows (Lafayette to Tally or something). I just found out Lettuce and Gramatik are playing tonight in Baton Rouge. I would probably have gone even though I'll be seeing Lettuce in 5 weeks. Damn. Sorry I missed that even if I generally never go to BR for shows. That's liable to be solid as ****.
Got in a scout of Flow Tribe today at Seafood Fest. I had seen them a couple times prior. They sounded reasonably good busting out some NOLA, some funk, some Latino, etc. yeah, they are a llittle kitsch, but they still jam. Also saw Brassaholics which aren't on the Voodoo lineup this year but managed to cover Nirvana, 5th Ward Weebie, Big Freedia and Sir Mixalot. Lmao. For anyone coming in from out of town to get those tastebuds working, I had creole white beans and shrimp from Cafe Giovanni and a shrimp/blt po'boy with menuiere butter from Galatoires. /postcards
