What is a Stefan?: Feist at the Hollywood Bowl

Pacifika,

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings,

Fiest

Hollywood Bowl, 20th July 2008

So i was talking to my friend Jordy about this new band PACIFIKA (www.pacifikaonline.com) that i fell in love with, cos i picked up their cd at Universal.
And i found out they were playing here in LA, at the Hollywood Bowl.
Coincidentally, they were opening for Fiest as well. (So really i was there to see Pacifika)

We got Garden Box seats for the show on Sunday!

Jordy, Jessica, Sara Jo and me.

We were so close to the front that it was clearer watching the stage than to try to see the huge side screens.

I've never been up so close before.

Awesome.

So now i've been all the way in the back ($7 tickets), in the middle ($25) and now here (easily a coupla hundreds, but it was ahem, free)

It has been hot in LA and i was already thinking twice about wearing jeans to the outdoor concert.

BUT, sigh, i should have guessed tat it'd be colder here at night. As it got later in the evening, i was the only one without some sort of jacket.Regret.

Pacifika is the multi-talented Silvana Kane, a Peruvian born singer, re-formed pop sensation (West End Girls), and accomplished actress with a love of flamenco, electronica, and textured percussion; Adam Popowitz a Canadian bred guitarist adept at new wave, classical, and pop, and a skiled producer responsible for a catalogue that includes indie rock and Armenian folk music; and Toby Peter, a dub wise basist born in Canada and raised in Barbados, explorer of jazz, hip-hop, metal and Caribbean grooves.

www.pacifikaonline.com

Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

I was new to her and the band, but was pleasantly presented with a spectacular James Brown funkadelic performance!

Feist

I've never been to a Feist concert before.

So i didn't have any expectations. I mean, i do know some of her songs, but didn't expect a visually spectacular show!

Apparently, Feist is big on the visuals at her shows, very artsy.

Throughout the show, she had these 2 ladies in the back playing around with shapes shown on a projector off the backdrop. Awesome cool stuff.

And here's another interesting story for the night....

So, we were seated so close to the front, we were almost dead certain we'd see a celebrity somehow.

There were people who LOOKED like they could be celebs, with all their funky hairdos and Gigantic white shades. But no. We didn't see any that night. Strange.

Then this guy and girl sat in the box next to me.Recognise him from these angles?

Throughout the night, there were more and more people coming up to the guy saying "Hi! I just wanted to say i am a big fan....", and people from across the booths taking paparazzi shots of him....

No clue? I knew who he was after a while.

I couldn't recognise him because he DIDN'T have his Pink hair.

I was sitting next to famous gossip columnist

PEREZ HILTON.

I had brought my shaker with me, cos duh, it was Pacifika, how was a drummer supposed to sit in the audience and not feel like he should be jamming along with a shaker.

Perez was laughing that i brought it and soon, his friend next to him bought him a shaker too.

And for the night, we were an egg shaker duo team.