Friday, 13 February 2004
They Make for Better Listening Than Breathing, Though
At lunchtime today, I picked up a couple of tickets to see Air at the Zénith de Paris. I've liked this duo since their first album hit the US, and I'll finally be able to check off another band from my "want to see but haven't yet" list. (I don't get to concerts nearly as often as I did in the US.)
It sort of makes up for having missed the White Stripes a couple of weeks ago. Which you'd tend to expect, considering that one plays 70's-styled electronica, and the other blues-influenced punk rock. But hey, who's keeping score?
Harking back to the days of my all-ages concert-going, the whole place will be open seating/standing. This is a fine example of what I call the "tyranny of democracy": when everyone is equal, no one is special. The downside is having to arrive super-early just to get a standing spot near the stage. The upside is that I'll have a bunch of youngsters squeezed close enough to prop me up, bolstering my ageing knees and back.
Rock on.