{"id":2560,"date":"2007-11-01T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T19:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2007-11-01T14:37:11","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T19:37:11","slug":"the-hold-steady-at-the-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2560","title":{"rendered":"The Hold Steady at the Metro."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8080.jpg\" title=\"The Hold Steady at the Metro.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8080.jpg\" alt=\"The Hold Steady at the Metro.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8092.jpg\" title=\"The Hold Steady at the Metro.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8092.jpg\" alt=\"The Hold Steady at the Metro.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night I went with Dom &amp; Kelley and Emily to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theholdsteady.com\/\" title=\"The Hold Steady.\">The Hold Steady<\/a> at Metro.  Being my first time to the Metro I was surprised by how small the place was.  We ended up in the balcony and it felt like we were right on top of the stage.  The place was packed but considering it was Halloween the only costumes I saw were on the band.  I take that back there was a midget taking tickets at the door that had his face painted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8078.jpg\" title=\"Towards the end of the show.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8078.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Towards the end of the show.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8070.jpg\" title=\"The Costumes are falling by the wayside.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8070.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"The Costumes are falling by the wayside.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8050.jpg\" title=\"More Hold Steady.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8050.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"More Hold Steady.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8041.jpg\" title=\"More costumes.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8041.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"More costumes.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8034.jpg\" title=\"From my view in the balcony.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8034.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"From my view in the balcony.\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8033.jpg\" title=\"The Hold Steady in Costume.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/img_8033.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"The Hold Steady in Costume.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We missed the first band but the second opening band, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artbrut.org.uk\/\" title=\"Art Brut\">Art Brut<\/a>, is a stalwart of my annual Top Ten List.  &#8216;The Brut&#8217; (as I like to call them) were decked out and all sorts of costumes that were in many waysappropriate . They also had a running slide show of the lyrics to their songs on the back of the stage which was helpful for those who are new to tidal wave of sound that is Art Brut.  If nothing else in went well with the singalong vibe that the crowd was excreting all night.<\/p>\n<p>I missed The Hold Steady at <a href=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=2330\" title=\"Black Hand Productions:  Lollapolloza Day 3.\">Lollapolloza <\/a>this past year but I&#8217;ve been listening to their albums the last couple of months leading up to this show.  My favorite being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Almost-Killed-Me-Hold-Steady\/dp\/B0001IN0VM\/ref=m_art_li_1\/002-6359416-0744031\" title=\"Amazon:  The Hold Steady - Almost Killed Me.\">Almost Killed Me<\/a>.  The band showed up on stage in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pancho_Villa\" title=\"Wikipedia:  Pancho Villa.\">Pancho Villaesque<\/a> attire which included &#8216;bullet belts&#8217;, mustaches and cowboy hats.  It was pretty bad ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went with Dom &amp; Kelley and Emily to see The Hold Steady at Metro. Being my first time to the Metro I was surprised by how small the place was. We ended up in the balcony and it felt like we were right on top of the stage. The place was packed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[87,224,367],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-chicago","tag-metro","tag-the-hold-steady"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-Fi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}