Last night I went with Christina and Corey to see Zero 7 at the Park West. It has been like forever since I seen a concert.
Christina drove and got us there so effortlessly, I was impressed. We even drove by my old neighborhood by Wriggley Field. It took us a while to find parking on the street. The moment we found a parking garage and was ready to submit to failure, a spot on the other side opened up and Christina effortly u-ied and got it. It was practically across the street from the place. It was 2 hours before the concert and we seen people lining up at the Park West.
For dinner we went to Stanleys. It was all-American cusisine. Mac and cheese seemed pretty prevalent there. I had that but it was so rich I could only eat half. Dinner for the 3 of us cost a whopping $26.
We got out of there at 8:00, the concert starts at 8:30. None of us has ever been there so we didn’t know what to expect, standing room crowds, smokey atmosphere. We get there, the line is gone, we just walk in and was pleasantly surprised to see bar stools everywhere. We go up stairs and sit down.
It was pretty nice, where we were up in the balcony, there were no crowds, just everyone sitting on bar stools in 2 rows in the upstairs. The place is small enough that you can see the stage pretty good. At 8:30 Jose Gonzales starts the opening act, some accoustic gutair. We don’t know who he is until he sang his last song and it was a Zero 7 one. Ah, he is the male vocalist for the group. Eventually the group comes on. The female vocalist was so cute be-bopping around. You don’t get her personality based on the sound of her voice on the CDs. Since they are a electronica group, there is a lot of keyboard action. Jose comes back on to sing the male vocals again. It was a fun show. We had a great time. I should of brough RAW’s point and shoot camera so I could take some pictures and video clips. I was afraid of their camera policy so I just avoided the aggration and left the cameras at home. I don’t think it would of been a problem.
It got out about 11:20, we walked to our car and went back to C and C’s where I got in my car and drove the 30-40 minutes back to my house. I got home officially at 1:20am.
RAW was on the couch sleeping and Hollace was in our bed. I had to wake her up to move her so I could get into bed.
Today we were hoping to take the train into Chicago for a romp in the city but alas, it is a rainy day. Oh well, maybe next weekend.