10/23/08: Ebu Gogo @1982

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Thursday, October 23, 2008
@ 1982 Bar
919 W University Ave.
Gainesville
8:00pm - EARLY SHOW
$6 / $7 under 21
All Ages

Astronautalis
bleubird
Ebu Gogo
Midikidi
Sewards Folly

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Added a flyer.

This sounds like it's going to be a strong line-up. I'm actually excited about this show!

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Anyone else planning on showing up for this? I'll be there!

Remember that Friday the 24th is UF Homecoming, so some of us will have the day off.

[ironing]

I'm very excited to see Ebu Gogo live! I'll be there if I don't have to head out of town early.

[ess]

I'll be there tonight!

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So, Andrew, Zombo and myself were busy setting up the haunted house and arrived late to 1982. Sewards Folly had already played.

We caught the last two songs from Ebu Gogo, who were pretty good. I bought a t-shirt from them and then we waited around for the next band...

Midikidi had brought in a pretty big crowd (30 or so people) for what apparently was their first show. Admittedly, I liked them for all the wrong reasons... mainly heckling. The first thing I shouted was "Brush your hair!". Gaggling female fans in the front row led me to yell out "Brian's Hot!!", even though neither of them were probably even named "Brian". For the opening of their second song they name-dropped "MySpace" without actually saying "MySpace", which caused me to shout out "MySpace!!". I'm not sorry.

So, noticing Andrew's look of disgust (directed toward the band), feeling that I couldn't stop shouting out inappropriate phrases, and sensing that Zombo was going to probably get knee'd in the nuts for saying "Who farted?" to the girl in front of us... we immediately left.

But now I still have one of their songs in my head...

Where does your money go?
Nobody knows!
Where does your money go?
You crush the pills and put them up your nose!

They rhymed "knows" with "nose". Go listen to their music if you want a taste. That song's not in their player though.

We're in the future, and this is apparently one of the types of music kids really like nowadays. This is the product of kids in Keystone Heights growing up on hip-hop and nu metal and pop punk.

I realize now that I can't go see bands like this without ruining the show for everyone else. Andrew made me swear that I would never book a band like them for an ESS show.

[Ars Phoenix]

Located in northeast Florida at the southern end of Clay County, Keystone Heights is a small town where family values still abound. Its landscape includes numerous lakes, parks and recreation areas as well as a quaint downtown area where residents shop. The Keystone residents value their community and are active
in all areas including schools, sports, churches, library and local events. It's a place for neighbors to meet neighbors, and a town where people from around the world are welcomed as well. Combine these desirable lifestyle elements with the important facilities located within our community, and one begins to understand why this community has achieved the rate of constant growth it has over the past five years.

Keystone Heights is a "commuters town" since many of the residents commute daily to work within a 50-mile radius surrounding the city. The town sits between two main Florida cities, Gainesville to the Southwest and Jacksonville to the Northeast.

http://www.keystoneheights.us

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Located in northeast Florida at the southern end of Clay County, Keystone Heights is a small town where family values still abound.

From their song, "Class A Tube WattsTech Hop Onslaught":

Tell everyone you know in town that Keystoned Heights is burning down!

Hey, so that song I was talking about is now up on Midikidi's myspace profile. It's called "Leisure Pay"... the lyrics are a bit different than I remember, but good lord it's been stuck in my head for months now, after hearing it only one time!