Hello again.

As you may know from my last post, I went away on Holiday last month. Since then I've been out of town a bit, then had a majestic motherboard failure which took me out of commission for another couple of weeks! But let's just call it a Summer Vacation, from which I've returned.

So I'm fairly excited right now. The Fall is bringing ALOT of amazing shows to town, and I'll be out and about capturing as many as possible. Good stuff to look forward to. Plus Austin City Limits Festival is next weekend! I've gone every year and besides the blistering heat its always an awesome time.

Moving onto the music - There's this band called Minibar - they're British, but they live in LA and don't sound like a British band at all. In fact they kinda sound like they've been influenced by bands like Ryan Adams and Counting Crows. They've got this song, its called "It Is What It Is." I remember the first time I heard it, I thought - what a brilliant premise for a song, that you don't have to fight against what you can't control. That you accept the inevitable, be okay with it and move on.

"It is what is it, theres no need for argument, at all."

So Minibar. Good songwriters. Great songs. Check out this show from MoMo's in Austin from 2002. I drove about 3 hours to catch this show, and it was worth every second of drive time.

Live MP3s:
Intro
Retrospect
Choked Up
Road Movies
Unstoppable
New Mexico
Fragile
It Is What It Is
Ask
So Long Soho
So Long Soho (Rock Ending)
Somebody Down Here Loves You