Last Sundays Fest on Telegraph this Sunday
Last Sundays Fest on Telegraph is coming again this Sunday, August 30th. A professional stage on Haste at Telegraph will feature the East Bay’s best bands and DJ El Kool Kyle. The street will be closed for dining, walking, and exploration.
There will be festival-day specials from merchants and restaurants, as well as handicraft vendors, outreach exhibits and green presentations. Berkeley’s own Phenomenauts will be coming home to play after their 40-city American tour. Down the street, Chabot to Go will be on site with interactive demonstrations for children, focusing on astronauts and space. Lawrence Hall of Science will be here as well! Green Motors is again coming out to show off its electric vehicles. Buttons Ze Clown will be in the crowd.
Program:
1:00 Mister Loveless
2:00 Tragedy Andy
3:00 Matthew Hansen
4:00 Custard Pie (Zeppelin tribute band)
5:00 Amaya
6:00 Phenomenaut
For more information: Last Saturday Fest on Telegraph.
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I went to the last Last Sunday last Sunday.
Partly I just wanted an excuse to write that sentence. Partly it has probably been a year or so since I last hung on Telegraph.
My goodness it was a bit depressing. Someone set off a kind of neutron bomb that takes out retail stores without destroying buildings. The number of vendor booths was *way* down from street parties of past years. All my old street friends are looking a bit dour. Even the dime bag and rock dealers in the park looked like times were slow.
The festival was fine. I’m glad we went. I caught Custard Pie, the Zeppelin tribute band. Tribute bands that do “close covers” can very easily be very lame. Those guys were not. All the players were good. The drummer was an absolute animal – a real lover. The band was tight enough with the material that they could play out in a relaxed way and still sound tight, giving the show a lot of good energy.
A lot of Zep material is really quite tricky. For example, check out the polyrhythm of “Black Dog” – a study in relative primes and least common multiples. Those guys nailed it.
They mentioned from stage that this was their first gig in 10 years. I really got the sense of four guys that had been getting together to play this material for their own fun for a few years and had just gotten down cold, and really well. It was a treat. And, high complement: the guys on the soundboard were getting into it and even mixing it nice and tasty (”hey, check out the bass on this one….”).
Still, I was pretty shocked at the paucity of vendors. I would have thought the bad economy would have meant *more* vendors, not less, but I guess I was wrong.
And to my mildly drunk new vet. friend at the bar-formerly-known-as-Raleighs, the one leching on the girls young enough to be his daughter sufficiently bogusly that I was giving him gentle lectures on feminism, the one talking loudly and insisting on injecting his presence into the nice quiet pints my wife and I were there for, the one with too much money and not enough work to do — yeah, you buddy — the one that every young man in earshot while I was dealing with you was shooting me looks that say “I got your back if you need to act on this dood” — yeah, you: chill out man. You seem like you’re probably a charming and nice guy to know when you have your act together which, just then, you did not.
Other than that it was lovely and, really, a very pleasant (if bittersweet) afternoon.
-t