Champagne, mojitos, margaritas,and Calexico

Last nights Calexico show at Joe’s Pub was a blast. The night started out with two bottle of champagne and a multitude of appetizers. By the time Calexico came on I had moved onto margaritas and mojitos. Calexico’s hour set was great, however the band did seem start off a little slow. But by the end of their hour-long set they were on fire. The set ended with their cover of Love’s “Alone Again or”. It is at this point that I need to explain that one of my friends that I attended this show with is a huge Calexico fan and one of his favorite songs is “Not Even Stevie Nicks”. Fortunately my friend Dave has good concert etiquette and refused to yell for the long. However this didn’t stop him from offering 20 dollars to anyone who yelled for the song. Now the two other people we were sitting were far to shy to yell for a song so this just left me. I am the kind of person that never yells for songs nor am I the kind of person that does dumb things for 20 dollars. I find it extremely tacky and poor concert etiquette to yell out your favorite song. But last night we were having so much fun and I found the idea of disrupting the formal setting of Joe’s Pub to be quite a challenge. So to cut to the case at the very end of Calexico's set I yelled “Not Even Stevie Nicks” to which Joey Burns replied back “When are we playing here next?” to which multiple members of the crowd all yelled back in unison “No NOT EVEN STEVIE NICKS!” To which Joey Burns replied “O.K I guess we have time for two more.” The band then went into a great version of the song. After the show while we were finishing our drinks and waiting for the check Dave went to the bathroom and bumped in to Joey backstage. Dave thanked them for playing and Joey Burns then thanked Dave for requesting “Not Even Stevie Nicks". The moral of this story is that two bottle of Champagne, mojitos, margaritas, tall boy B-Weisers and two bottles of wine can make we disregard the concert rules I have lived by for the past 15 years of my life.



See more photos from Joe's Pub here
See photos from Calexico and Iron and Wine's show at Webster Hall here
Brooklyn Vegan went to the late show check out his picutres and review here.