Winding down, winding up: Plymouth is ablaze with rock & roll and stolen laptops

Posted by Jon Dorn on Aug 25, 2009 in Bands/Artists, Shows | 1 comment

Moving on from the nonsensical, unnecessarily ‘trying-to-be-poetic’ post title, we’ve been experiencing a little bit of Robert Plant in our lives in the past week or two – it’s been “Good Times Bad Times” at Brewster Productions. If you’re scoring good vs. bad on a purely numerical scales, as far as number of incidents, we’ve been having a damn good week – Schoolhouse Rock was awesome, all the bands were great, Love In Stockholm might be opening for The Cars because of the show, Nate Cristofori was a crowd-pleaser, and so on. But if we tally up the score by weight, at least in the past couple days, it’s been more on the side of that S word that rhymes with “pit” and refers to some sort of excrement.

Friday night, my laptop was stolen at the Hedge House. Not an old laptop with nothing on it. The opposite, in fact. It was my relatively-brand-new MacBook Pro that I bought for grad school in June. We’ve been more or less running the business and promotional ends of Brewster Productions and the concert series off that computer, and get this……..NOTHING WAS BACKED UP. I know, that’s my fault. But it still sucks – well it more than sucks, but you get the idea.

Anyway, as Dr. Percival Cox once said: “Upsetting, but we persevere.” So it’s back to business.

Check out the photos from Schoolhouse Rock ’09 – this is the 3rd year we’ve done the all-day show and it was a great time. Love In Stockholm was incredible, and the Reykjansbaer Jazz Band was incredibly talented – clearly from a music school….it was crazy seeing a 20-year-old kid do an incredible drum solo reading from sheet music. That kind of discipline doesn’t lose laptops.

Here you can also see some photos from Nate Cristofori’s show on Saturday. It was a great time, and his playlist managed to run dry after the crowd kept him on stage through 2 encores. People love their piano.

NOTE FOR THIS WEEKEND: Unfortunately, Happy Balky & the Good Livin’ had to cancel because of an emergency with one of the band member’s children. We’re working on getting a replacement, so we’ll update all yous soon with that.

Until then, good night and good luck.

- Jon