Archive for March 17, 2007
A PLACE FOR SAINT PATRICK TO PARTY
March 17, 2007 by PT Rothschild.
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
Temecula, CA – The scene around T-town has been percolating right along. Across town Full Value Entertainment has been drawing crowds to the ‘Battle of The Bands’ competition leading up to the Temecula Music Fest, host to an eclectic mix of talent last year as was never seen before in this beautiful valley. Believe me, I know. I’ve been here since the only thing around was square dancing, nude hills, and Menifee didn’t have the second ‘e’. I wonder what kind of talent show Bill & Jeney (FVE) will have in store for the valley at this year’s Fest. Up the hill where word is, Jackie and her Promotions are ‘busy as a beaver, what with school and all going on’, says Grandmother Kathy as she putts around town delivering tasty food for Caterer’s Cafe. Down the hill at Java Jo’z show promotion companies like AMP (Amplified Music Promotions) and BurnLounge have been added to the espresso mix with owner James also taking a much more active role in production and booking. “Can you believe it?” he recently intoned to me, “I’ve got a (Christian) band from Maryland contacting me. A band in Maryland contacting a ‘coffee house’ out here in California about playing a show?!” Ivan just chuckled because we were walking out the door and on the way to the movie bus, which was freshly cleaned. Inside the bus was the night’s ‘road trip’ crew, the cheering section for a local band that was returning ‘home’ to Long Beach, CA to play a venue called KHOURY’S, 110 Marina Drive, (562.598.6800, closed Mondays). Besides being a venue, KHOURY’S is also known as ‘The Best Little Fish Grill in Long Beach’ (see soon-to-be posted companion review).
With less time requirements at Java Jo’z, Ivan Promotions has been added to the repertoire of the TVIFF and is back to collecting more footage of bands featured in the trailer. Tonight one of those bands, INVERSE, is playing the show in Long Beach and Ivan is driving. I watch the various colored vista depths of Southern California’s Inland Empire’s shadowed hills roll by a second time as my day job had allowed the same passage earlier. As the bottle of wine is passed all around the ‘sausage party’ sans one, the conversation was one filled with ‘girls’, humor, and music, a pleasant change from charged political debate of past days. Also the hills represent ‘out in the sticks’ where I live, as opposed to where I’m going, ‘the city’. I’m happy living in the sticks, my ‘fast’ sticks that is.
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