This weekend I have a group of friends down from Canada - friends who drove 8-15 hours to be here to see John Butler Trio last night (and go to the Cubs-White Sox game today). We've been planning this for months and I was so excited to see the show last night - John Butler is a great guitarist, I love the old style of the Riv as a venue, these people are some of my favourite concert go-ers, and it's just a nice break from how crazy work has been. In fact, two of us saw him and his former back up band at Lolla two years ago and it remains in my top 5 for Lolla shows I've seen.
So we got to the show around 8:30pm after eating at Smoke Daddy's for some bbq dinner (it was great). The opener was State Radio and, to be honest, if I'd known that they were playing I'd probably have pushed to come earlier and see them, but no harm there. The dance floor was busy and we weren't feeling it so we went upstairs... to sit... because there are seats. Apparently sitting in seats at a concert is a strange concept to the three girls in front of us. They stood up and danced the entire show. Don't get me wrong, I love when a crowd really gets in to the music (and these girls were) and if you want to get up and dance for some of the fasters numbers that's great, but there's a dance floor and there's the seating area. So basically, when I say I saw John Butler Trio play a show at the Riv, I actually just heard them - all I saw was three girls who frankly aren't very good dancers. I get that I'm really there for the music, but John Butler is exciting to watch and it was a real bummer to see maybe a quarter of the show (I gave in and stood for a bit).
I'm sad to say, it kind of ruined the show for me. The music was pretty good, his former back-up band was better, I was with good friends, we had beer. It had all the makings for what could've been a very good show... and three inconsiderate girls took a lot of the fun out of it.
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