{"id":209,"date":"2004-09-14T17:30:40","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T00:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/14\/snow_in_september.html"},"modified":"2008-12-22T10:37:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T17:37:30","slug":"snow_in_september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/14\/snow_in_september.html","title":{"rendered":"Snow in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"snow_patrol.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/09\/14\/snow_patrol.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"475\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" style=\"padding:0px 0px 10px 10px;\"\/>Another good show last night at my favorite venue around, the Paradise.  We saw Snow Patrol (with the charming, sibling-stocked <a title=\"home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eisley.com\/flash_index.htm\">Eisley<\/a> opening) play an energetic, if oddly-constructed set in front of a sold out crowd. The album has grown on me, and the band played a set that, at moments, made me happy to be enjoying a moment or two in the long and storied history of bands, invariably made up of four or five guys with slightly different-length hair, hailing from somewhere in the British Isles.  That&#8217;s an odd way of explaining it, and I don&#8217;t mean the Beatles, but there&#8217;s a certain sound the band achieved last night that fits nicely in the timeline with the Stone Roses, Blur, Ride, Supergrass, Doves, Coldplay, and others.  It&#8217;s a classic sound when you hear it on an album, and it&#8217;s got even more pull and power live; last night, Snow Patrol got there a couple of times, and for that I was happy.  Another element of seeing a band like that in concert is the dependable and charming culture-clash commentary from the lead singer.  Last night, it was bemusement at the Jimmy Buffet fans who clogged the bars the night before.  &#8220;All these people with parrots on their heads.  Is it not true they&#8217;re worn on the shoulder, traditionally?&#8221;<BR><BR><a title=\"Doubleperf | Blog | King Canon II\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/10\/king_canon_ii.html\">My new camera<\/a> arrived yesterday afternoon, as well, so it was a good opportunity to test it out.  It&#8217;s a lot quicker, more responsive, and has a raft of features I have yet to understand.  But it still takes pictures, and fits in my pocket, so I&#8217;m happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another good show last night at my favorite venue around, the Paradise. We saw Snow Patrol (with the charming, sibling-stocked Eisley opening) play an energetic, if oddly-constructed set in front of a sold out crowd. The album has grown on me, and the band played a set that, at moments, made me happy to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}