CONCERT NEWS
This is the also slow season for concerts, which might explain why any semi-famous person is selling out shows. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones I can understand-this is their hometown after all. But Bruce Hornsby?
But They Might Be Giants, the Institute of Politics' fave band, are playing tomorrow at Avalon. Two questions: how do I sing like a girl? And why did Constantinople get the works?
Tickets went on sale two days ago for the December 7 Bangles-Dido concert at the Orpheum. Speaking of which, the Bounce trailer with Dido's "Here With Me" playing in the background is manipulative but deadly effective. Everytime Ben Affleck says "I don't have a last call for the day" someone in my various TV-watching groups invariably says "I don't have a last call either" and we all go into a whine.
And when you have to fill a music column by talking politics and movies, it's time to make an exit. Have a good Thanksgiving.