[CANCELLED: July 28, 2022] Courtney Barnett / Lucy Dacus / Samia
My wife and I were pretty excited about this show, We’ve had tickets to see Courtney Barnett a couple of times recently and they’ve all been cancelled. We have seen her before and she is great live. So this–a small stage outside on a lovely summer night–sounded amazing.
Add in Lucy Dacus who I have seen a number of times and my wife has seen once, and it was a great night.
Opening for the pair was Samia, a singer I don’t know, but whose name I have heard a lot.
It’s fair to say I don’t love The Mann Center. The venue itself is amazing, but the whole getting there and parking scene is dreadful. And so it was tonight as we arrived on time, but by the time we parked, the Samia set was in full swing. As we were walking to the entrance, we heard her play “Stacy’s Mom,” which was her last song.
And since someone has done the dirty work for me, I’ll let Rocking the Burbs give the report:
As Lucy Dacus’ 7:30pm set time approached, workers began covering up equipment with tarps and plastic on the stage. Shortly after, it was announced that everyone should take shelter in the TD Pavilion to ride out the impending storm. Over an hour later, the rain and lightning finally arrived – at that point, most felt confident that the show would eventually re-start albeit with shortened set durations. The rain finally did stop, but Dacus’ gear was drenched in the process – the announcement came at 9:30 that the show was cancelled. Well, that was unexpected.
It certainly sucked that we waited that long to find out that it was cancelled. At that point even if it had gone on, how late would we have been there? We probably should have just left. But whatever.
The craziest thing is that we were going to look at merch but decided to wait a little while. We decided to look just as we were ushered under the Pavilion.
It was an unforgettable night, to be sure.
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Last year we had to miss the Belle and Sebastian show because of my daughter’s graduation.
I love The Afghan Whigs’ album Gentlemen. I should love more by them, but I like them just fine (never been in the cult of Dulli). I’ve never really been interested in seeing them live. But a Free at Noon is a great way to get a thirty or so minute show without committing to an evening out.
