Simply Sety: Aqualung at The Triple Door!

For Valentine's day, Kyle bought us tickets to see Aqualung at the Triple Door downtown. Now, for those of you unfamiliar with Aqualung, Matt Hales pretty much=Aqualung, and he's fantastic. When he was 16 he won a music scholarship to Winchester College for music composition, and by 17 wrote his first symphony. He's incredibly talented/amazing. A couple of years ago, he retired...had a few kids, and missed/couldn't stop writing music. So he wrote a new album, and is now on tour again :) I never saw him on tour prior to his resignation, so I was really excited, what a great present, especially since it also doubles as an early birthday present (my bday is in a week!) hehe :)

Given all that background info, and despite how excited I was for the show, and how much I was looking forward to it...we got our dates mixed up. I was CERTAIN the show was on Sunday, May 2nd. But, Kyle had just gotten out of the shower, his phone was ringing, and it was a call from the Triple Door asking if we were going to make it to the show, since it had started at 7 (it was like 7:20). He asks how far along the show is, and the opener Krista Polvere (who is adorable, you should look her up) had an hour long set, and with the intermission, Aqualung would be performing at 8:30. We quickly got ready and raced to the show, and made it with 15mins to spare :)

Kyle had reserved us a table (awww) but it was so packed and we got there so late, we shared a table with a nice couple and their baby (so adorable). The apologized ahead of time and said they hoped their baby wouldn't be a bother, we assured them that it was fine :) We ordered dinner (I wish I had taken a picture, because it was delicious), given it was a fancy place and we're poor college students (lol) we split the Thai Passion Tofu. It was phenomenal: fried tofu and eggplant in a yummy sauce, and fresh basil...simple, but elegant and amazing :) They had some fun sounding drinks, but given that I'm not 21 until next weekend, hah, I ordered the Iced Tea because it claimed to have hints of jasmine (which I love) and it was really good.

Aqualung came on and performed a lot of new stuff, but mixed in a few extra older goodies :) Krista performed with them every now and then when the song called for female vocals to be included...my recommendation is Thin Air, it's a beautiful song :) Matt Hales is just such a sweet guy, lol, and funny :)

The way the room is laid out was very loungey-feeling, and the group of people right below us nearly ruined my night. They were just the most obnoxious people...and whenever I'm at a seated show, I'm always stuck near people who seemingly don't know the artist, don't care about the music, and for some reason don't realize that the reason they have to yell to talk to their friends is because a musician is performing! It's so rude >.< I honestly wanted to tell them to be quiet, but I'm not a confrontational person, lol. Not only did they not clap in between his songs, it's extra rude/awkward when it's just Matt playing the piano and singing...there's no loud band to cover up them yelling to each other. It was super annoying, but whatever, some people are just assholes. The ironic thing is that we were sitting with a couple and a baby, but they weren't loud at all. The baby was either happily "dancing" (the parents were doing most of the dancing, lol) and "clapping", or sleeping...he didn't cry, not once. Made fussy noises like once or twice, but the dad walked him around when that happened.

Anyway, we noticed that a line was forming after the show, and I was worried for the bathroom, it wasn't, we assumed just for merch/coat check or something...then we realized Matt and Krista were doing a meet-and-greet! We got in line, took pictures/talked to them, they were super nice. We told Matt we had $13 in cash to spend and asked what we could get, he said that the CDs were $15, and the mugs were $5, so we could get a couple of those. We said "hmmm, we could use a couple of mugs" and then he said that if we promised not to tell anyone else, we could get a CD at a special discount price, lol. How cool is that? Artists usually aren't that nice/cool, lol, and he signed it for us too :) What a nice guy...and what a nice night, even with that group of idiots who despite their best efforts, didn't ruin the night after all :)