Five!
I’m the kind of girl whose idea of a Friday night out usually entails the club scene. Overly eager girls in slutty Bebe wear, over-priced drinks (and that includes water), and dirty hip-hop music that gets you hot and bothered. So when Glowjangles invited me to Lee Harvey’s, I hesitated a bit. It’s a bar with an outdoors area for live music. That sounds inviting enough, but from looking at pictures on their website, I quickly frowned. But I decided to go ahead anyway with an open mind.
I’m glad I did! While Leo Hull isn’t exactly on my iPod playlist, the excitement of live music made it all the more fun. It was a beautiful evening for a Texas January. A slightly-chilly gust of air flowed through the venue while an outdoor heater seeped a comfortable amount of warmth our way. The scene was lively with clusters of people enjoying the music and each other both inside at the bar and out. I felt out of place at the beginning, but quickly adapted. We got our drinks (the bartender was nice enough to give me some free ice water) and engaged in a competitive drinking game, “What’s the fastest way to get everyone drunk?” (Or brain-freeze in my case.) Before I knew it, the band was wrapping up and everyone was in an extra-jovial mood. The night had gotten colder, but it felt good. I didn’t spend a dime and still had a fantastic time. Lee Harvey’s, you’ve definitely gained a customer out of me.
For all those college kids planning to spend the next week or so locked up in local campus libraries, here are some tunes to jam out to whilst learning why the hell you need sin graphs to plot your route to the nearest bar. Cheers!
Lyrical:
Air – Surfin on a Rocket (Good stuff. Made The Virgin Suicides sing)
Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion to the Left (Like Beruit’s long lost.)
Beruit – The Flying Club Cup ( Something I like to listen to while knocking down a tall one at the local pub.)
Lyric-less:
Ratatat – Loup Pipes (Listen to this before being a ninja.)
The Octopus Project – I Saw the Bright Shinies (Atx shoutout)
The Gotan Project – La Vigu?ela (accordian, classical guitar, beautiful singer, djs. You can’t go wrong)
Tchaikovsky-Borodin – Sleeping Beauty: Andante (Almost died to this song once. Seemed appropriate.)
Obviously you’re going to want to seeq these artists to fully experience their awesomeness.
