House of Blues in Chicago will be jammin' tonight!!
Friday 05/03/2013 Doors: 06:30 PM
Show: 07:30 PM Prices:
$15.00 - GA - Advanced
$20.00 - GA - Day Of Ages: 17+ House of Blues Chicago
329 N. Dearborn
Chicago, IL 60654
(312) 923-2000
Headlining Artist: Mathien
Other Artists at this Event:
• How Far to Austin
• Zaramela
• Jackpot Donnie
• Paige & The Reverent Few
**Go EARLY and catch Jackpot Donnie.**
Then our old friends, How Far to Austin are on at 9:45 SHARP. The took a bit of a baby break to have a 2nd child Isabelle in December, but they're back and ready to rock.
As if that's not enough, the show tonight is MATHIEN'S RECORD RELEASE PARTY FOR DARLING TELEVISION.
Over 2/3 of the available tickets are already SOLD OUT, all of the opera boxes are SOLD OUT, but still plenty of floor tickets left - snatch them up while you still can:
Click here for tickets at cost ($15 )--without all the fees that Live Nation & Ticketmaster charge. We'll see you there!
HFA says: We're back at the world famous House of Blues in Chicago on Friday May 3rd, for our first live performance in over 9 months!!Buying your tickets here in advance saves you more than $10 on Ticketmaster & Venue fees, and helps us show the venue how hard we work to spread the word about our performances . . . your physical tickets will be waiting under your name at the House of Blues box office on the night of the show!
Mathien "Darling Television" Record Release w/ How Far to Austin, Zaramela, Jackpot Donnie, and Paige & The Reverent Few
Check back with ChiIL Live Shows like we vote in Chi, IL... early and often. We have more unreleased LIVE show shots of both Mathien at Reggies Rock Club and HFTA at HOB coming soon.
Here are ChiIL Live Shows' Shots of Sunday at North Coast Music Festival 2012.
Sunday highlights were Chi-town's own Mathien, pictured below.
Mathien even got the "shreddy shirt boy" sighting seal of approval!
We really dug seeing Rebirth Brass Band from New Orleans again this year (we also shot them opening for Dumpstaphunk at the after party at Bottom Lounge Sunday night).
We also checked out the vendors including the Chevy street team. I told them I'd just won a week loan of an Inferno Orange Camaro SS and they said, "What are you doing HERE, girl?! You should be out driving that convertible!!!!!"
We did see a number of families and kids Sunday.
More highlights were Van Ghost, Big Boi and Pretty Lights.
The Van Ghost girls, and Jennifer Hartswick (Trey Anastasio Band) in particular, just killed it with their stellar vocals and horns.
And of course the creative, costumed crowd.
We wanna see a band named SLUTHAT next year..... Whose with me?!
It was great to see familiar faces from the music industry/press world/blogosphere like Michael Berge, Michael Raspatello, Amy Ravit Korin (AKA: Interactive Amy) and August Forte!
We hit the fest early Sunday afternoon with the plan to shoot most of Mathien's 2:30 set, then hit IndigoSky.Unfortunately the media/photo pass SNAFU screwed up our shoot schedule again. With no separate press entrance, I had to wait behind hundreds of festival goers to even get in, and then security gave me a hassle again about bringing in my gear. Year 1 we had lanyards/all access. Year two we had a photo pit wrist band which wasn't ideal, but passable. This year, we were approved for two media credentials, but someone had the brilliant idea that GA tickets would suffice. We were unable to shoot Friday at all, since security wouldn't let me in with my pro-camera gear and I had nothing to prove I really had press clearance. I tried for over an hour to get someone on the walkie to get me in with my gear, and finally left in disgust. I'd taken the el down and couldn't very well just ditch thousands of dollars in cameras outside the gate. We were bummed not to catch King Khan & the Shrines, Knife Party and STS9.
Later that night I e-mailed all my contacts on the fest production end and they assured me I had clearance to bring in a camera as press and that the gate fiasco was a mistake. Yet we had the same issue again Sunday with security and were held up at the gate so long we missed shooting all of IndigoSky and just caught Mathian's final song after literally running across to the far side of the fest.
Saturday went smoothly, aside from wasting shoot time in a mass of GA at the main gate and long lines for basics like portalets and water. Every other major music fest we cover has a press area with free water and uncrowded toilets so press can work more efficiently. It's a no brainer really. Lollapalooza's press lounge is great, with a plentiful water and iced tea, private toilets, chairs for interviews, a free happy hour, swag, and more. Unless things change for the better, this may be the last time we take the time to cover North Coast. They seemed bent on making it as hard as possible for me to do my job and get good coverage for our readers!
Sunday I was fortunate enough to run into friends I shoot and review loads of shows for year round, who were able to escort me back stage to get some shots.
Then I ran into one of the NCMF producers I've known for years, who FINALLY kicked me a guest wristband. I still couldn't get any pit photos like we usually run here, but it was a big improvement over nothing.Check out our extensive NCMF 2011 coverage where I shot pit photos from dawn to dusk every day of the fest.
That said, we'll be shooting stills again and catching Mathian's whole at Reggies Rock Club this Saturday. Come on out and check 'em out. They're excellent. Mathien's on at 7pm sharp, so come early. ALL AGES.
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