mercurystatic and I saw Roger Waters of Pink Floyd perform The Wall at the Oracle Arena on Friday.

I think I bought the tickets 4 or 5 months ago so I've been looking forward to this concert for a very, very long time. I was a little bit worried that it'd just never live up to my expectations.

It was to start at 8:00pm. We got there at around 7:15 or so, so we were plenty early. "I wonder who's going to open for Roger Waters?" I asked mercurystatic. I mean who can open for such a legend of…

mercurystatic saw Massive Attack at the Greek Theater at UC Berkeley on Saturday night.

Ho man, it was a series of unfortunate events.

First of all, for some reason I got it in my head that the concert started at 8:00. Probably because the last.fm event says it starts at 8:00. I didn't think to check the starting time until 6:45 and was like… oh shit let's go.

So we set off towards Berkeley and hit hella traffic. Pissed me off. We were just barely crawling and it was all uphill so I was constantly rolling back whenever we set…

So mercurystatic and I saw Florence + the Machine last Friday at the Fox Theater in Oakland.

I bought the tickets a day before they sold out on Ticketmaster and they came with the disclaimer "OBSTRUCTED VIEW". Ooh, sounds classy, I thought to myself.

I was wondering what would obstruct our view. I had looked up from the GA floor during the Broken Bells show and couldn't really see anything that would be in the way. Well we got to the theater and walked up several flights of stairs. Handed the user our ticket. "Oh yeah, you gotta go…

mercurystatic and I saw Two Door Cinema Club at Slim's in San Francisco on Thursday.

The location of Slim's is great. It's at the southern most point of San Francisco city proper, so you don't have to worry about driving on Van Ness and dealing with San Francisco's famous hills in a manual car. You get off the 101 just after it splits into the 80 and you're there.

We got to the concert really, really early: nearly an hour before the first band would go on. It was a small place. We got our tickets from will call, got…

mercurystatic and I saw the Gorillaz concert at the Oracle Arena last Saturday, the day before Halloween.

She and I arrived as the opening band N*E*R*D had already started (and after we paid the $30 parking fee!). I'd say about one out of every 10 or so people were dressed up, so it was fun to see the various costumes. I went dressed as Dr. Horrible and got a couple of compliments from the people who recognized who I was.

The Oracle arena is the Oracle arena, so there's not really much explanation needed. It's a huge sports arena where…

mercurystatic, Lady_Jezebel and I saw the Frightened Rabbit concert at the Fillmore this past Sunday evening.

I had been to this venue once before to see some elctronica band I had never heard of. It's not a terribly impressive theater; the ceiling is relatively low for a concert venue and their is only a single-level dance floor for general admission. A balcony runs along the left and rear walls, but not the right. Two lines of crystal chandeliers run along the rectangular ceiling to provide house lighting. One great thing about this venue, though, was the elevated stage. It…

mercurystatic, Lady_Jezebel and I saw the Frightened Rabbit concert at the Fillmore this past Sunday evening.

I had been to this venue once before to see some elctronica band I had never heard of. It's not a terribly impressive theater; the ceiling is relatively low for a concert venue and their is only a single-level dance floor for general admission. A balcony runs along the left and rear walls, but not the right. Two lines of crystal chandeliers run along the rectangular ceiling to provide house lighting. One great thing about this venue, though, was the elevated stage. It…

mercurystatic and I saw the Broken Bells concert last night at the Fox Theater in Oakland.

I've written about the Fox Theater before so I won't go into too much detail. The theater itself is very beautiful and great for watching concerts. The general admission section is huge and divided up into at least three different tiers, each one about 3 feet higher than the one below it. It makes for a great way to get a good view of the band, and unless you're at the very back of one of the tiers and behind a lot of tall…

There are some pretty damn good cover songs out there. And since I haven't seen a concert since the last time I wrote (I will tomorrow!), I thought I'd just vomit up some good covers to check out.

Feeling Good originally written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for the musical The Roar of the Greasepaint—the Smell of the Crowd. Matthew Bellamy — the lead singer of Muse — has a voice that can kind of get on my nerves pretty quickly. And for that reason I have a sort of love-hate relationship with this song. What are you whining…

mercurystatic and I saw Ratatat in concert on Friday night at The Warfield.

Let me just first say: Hipster-tastic. Holy cow were the demographics at this show entertaining. It was the most homogeneous group of people I have ever seen at a concert. A sea of 20-somethings wearing fake, thick-rimmed glasses, scarves, and ironic tshirts/V-necks filled the entire venue. People over 30 were very few and far between.

Mercurstatic and I sat in the balcony section, about 1/3 of the way up. It was the first time I'd seen a concert from the balcony, but it was still very much…