MKOxRH: Straight West Coastin’

Published on August 20, 2008 in Uncategorized. 4 Comments

I some­times feel that work­ing in the con­cert “biz” has made me slightly jaded when it comes to live music. It’s true, it’s true. But there are still moments when I get com­pletely stoked-out-of-my-mind when cer­tain bands (see above) come to town. This upcom­ing week is one of those times, and I swear I will smile all day and night, and dream big when I’m asleep. I’m about to start my Cal­i­for­nia mini-tour, headed to four of the five dates Radio­head has sched­uled to end their North Amer­i­can tour…and boy am I pumped!

I even got word from my buddy Justin, that he scored a few tick­ets to the West Coast pre­miere of Jonny Greenwood’s “Pop­corn Super­het Receiver” in San Fran­cisco at the Herbst The­atre for Thurs­day night. What a per­fect way to start my journey…ahhhh! More info on that can be found here.

Here’s my itin­er­ary. Lets hang out if you’re free:

–Thurs­day, Aug 21: Fly into Oak­land around noon, attend the Pop­corn Super­het Receiver pre­miere at Herbst The­atre in the evening, do what­ever in between.
–Fri­day, Aug 22: Run around the city dur­ing the day, meet up with friends who are there from out of town, head to the fes­ti­val site around 4 PM to get my cre­den­tials. I hope to meet up with pos­si­ble employ­ers dur­ing this time as well (I hope I can work some­thing out!).
–Sat­ur­day, Aug 23: Land in Ontario around noon, head to work, do the show and go home for rest.
–Sun­day, Aug 24: Sleep in, then pre­pare for Radio­head at the Hol­ly­wood Bowl.
–Mon­day, Aug 25: Work in the office, leave early, pre­pare for Night 2 at the Bowl.
–Wednes­day, Aug 27: Catch Amtrak around 9 AM to San Diego and either bike or find some sort of bus to Chula Vista (any­one know which sta­tion is the best for this, or the eas­i­est way?)…if I can’t fig­ure that I out I can drive solo, though I want to keep that as my last resort.
–Thurs­day, Aug 28: Depend­ing on finances and how tired I am, I may end up in Santa Bar­bara for the final N. Amer­i­can show of the tour. We’ll see…

4 Responses to “MKOxRH: Straight West Coastin’”

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  • Matthew
    August 20, 2008 at 3:24 pm

    Chula Vista is far from the train sta­tion. It’s like the dis­tance from Pomona to Echo Park. At least. You can bus, but it will take like 2.5 hrs. You can’t ride. It’s just not really pos­si­ble. Plus Coors (“Cricket Wire­less”) is far off the freeway.

    P.S. Laura, Daniel, and I went to see Radio­head at Coors before.

  • Mike O.
    August 20, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    Shit…no way! I saw on Google that it’s only like 10 miles from SD? So I fig­ured it wouldn’t be thattt far. Hmm…maybe I’ll just end up dri­ving then — it’s just so shitty to drive there solo and I feel guilty about putting out the emis­sions for just one person’s trip..hmm. Well, I have a cou­ple days to fig­ure it out.

  • Matthew
    August 20, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    Maybe it isn’t that far but it sure feels like it. I’ve never taken PT from down­town to Chula Vista so it might not be ter­ri­ble. I can’t imag­ine buses run­ning that late out there though. It is in the mid­dle of nowhere kinda. Well not nowhere. It’s right next to a water park.

  • Mike O.
    August 20, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    Haha…yeah, I think I fig­ured out a car­pool sit­u­a­tion though thanks to Atease’s mes­sage­board. It’ll be an adven­ture! Hope­fully I won’t get kidnapped.

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