Mindy
Last thursday I saw Mindy Smith at Starr Hill Music Hall in Charlottesville.
I have been too tired to write about it until now. But here's the quick lowdown:
I really liked her. I'd seen her once before-- at the Philly Folk Festival, and that time she was solo, acoustic. This time she had a full band with her. The band was quite rockin.
A decent amount of people came out for the Starr Hill show. Unfortunately a good number of them were idiots who distracted me all night. There were 2 drunk girls in the back who talked the entire night, numerous other people who felt like carrying on conversations nonstop, and several cell phone calls and people talking on cell phones.
My head hurt so bad at the end of it, from trying to focus on Mindy while ignoring the idiots.
Sometimes I hate people.
I hate Starr Hill. I felt like they're staff should have shushed people. It shouldn't have been my job to do that. But I had to. During one very quiet, sentimental song I had to turn around and tell the people in the back to be quiet. And my buddy Bill had to tell a cell phone user to take his conversation somewhere else. That shouldn't be our responsibility.
I emailed Starr Hill to tell them this but got no response. I'm not really surprised-- they're a poorly run club.
Why do people like that even come to shows? Stay home, put on a CD and save your $15.
Did I mention that sometimes I hate people?
But i really liked Mindy Smith. The encore of "Come to Jesus" and "Jolene" was pretty awesome. I wish she would have played those two earlier though, because i think some of the dissrespectful folks were just there to hear those two songs and didn't care about the others. I guess that's the catch-22 of having a top 40 hit: more people come out, but how many of them are real fans, and how many just wanna hear that one song?
Unfortunately, in addition to the constant crowd noise, her vocal mic seemed a little low. The sound is often less than stellar at Starr Hill, which is a shame. It could be a really cool place. But it's not.
Hopefully next time Mindy comes to town she can play at Gravity Lounge.
The Starr Hill management and crowd don't really deserve to have her there.
The 3/4 of the crowd that was there to actually listen to her would have a much better time at a better managed club.
I have been too tired to write about it until now. But here's the quick lowdown:
I really liked her. I'd seen her once before-- at the Philly Folk Festival, and that time she was solo, acoustic. This time she had a full band with her. The band was quite rockin.
A decent amount of people came out for the Starr Hill show. Unfortunately a good number of them were idiots who distracted me all night. There were 2 drunk girls in the back who talked the entire night, numerous other people who felt like carrying on conversations nonstop, and several cell phone calls and people talking on cell phones.
My head hurt so bad at the end of it, from trying to focus on Mindy while ignoring the idiots.
Sometimes I hate people.
I hate Starr Hill. I felt like they're staff should have shushed people. It shouldn't have been my job to do that. But I had to. During one very quiet, sentimental song I had to turn around and tell the people in the back to be quiet. And my buddy Bill had to tell a cell phone user to take his conversation somewhere else. That shouldn't be our responsibility.
I emailed Starr Hill to tell them this but got no response. I'm not really surprised-- they're a poorly run club.
Why do people like that even come to shows? Stay home, put on a CD and save your $15.
Did I mention that sometimes I hate people?
But i really liked Mindy Smith. The encore of "Come to Jesus" and "Jolene" was pretty awesome. I wish she would have played those two earlier though, because i think some of the dissrespectful folks were just there to hear those two songs and didn't care about the others. I guess that's the catch-22 of having a top 40 hit: more people come out, but how many of them are real fans, and how many just wanna hear that one song?
Unfortunately, in addition to the constant crowd noise, her vocal mic seemed a little low. The sound is often less than stellar at Starr Hill, which is a shame. It could be a really cool place. But it's not.
Hopefully next time Mindy comes to town she can play at Gravity Lounge.
The Starr Hill management and crowd don't really deserve to have her there.
The 3/4 of the crowd that was there to actually listen to her would have a much better time at a better managed club.
posted by Hutch at 8:43 AM
1 Comments:
See, that's what I don't like about Starr Hill: those high ticket prices combined with college bar atmosphere, bad seating and bad acoustics. You'd think the ticket prices would keep out the talkers, but UVa college kids don't bat an eye at dropping $15 to essentially hang out and drink cool beer. I guess it's nice to be endowed by mom and dad.
Loving the entries. Keep it up.
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