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Account of the events at the 4/22 Residents show
By: Dixie Date: April 24, 2018, 10:02 pm
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Hi everybody! Here is my sad tale of the early closing of The
Resident's 4/22/18 show at the Murmurr theatre in Brooklyn,
which I'm sure you've all heard about by now.
Allllll day on Sunday I was essentially buzzing with nervous
energy but I was super excited because it was my very first
Residents show! I've been a fan for years and yet the
opportunity to actually see a show kept evading me. My
girlfriend (who is not a Residents fan but came with me, bless
her) and I made the two-and-some hour trek from our university
into Brooklyn. I met up with everybody's favorite friend Goatie
there. He asked how the adventure getting there was and I said,
"Everything went according to plan! Let's just hope everything
continues to go according to plan". Which, like, foreshadowing
much?!
Anyway, before I say anything else I wanna say I had a ton of
fun at the show while it lasted!!!! It was a fantastic
experience and I loved relishing in the fact that everyone in
the room knew who The Residents were for once, lol. Tyrone,
Eekie, Erkie, and Cha-Cha were AMAZING as to be expected! When I
heard the first strains of "It's a Man's Man's Man's World", my
soul slipped the surly bonds of earth and touched the face of
God. It was absolutely surreal to be there! A dream come true,
no pun intended.
In the middle of one of the blues section, I noticed something
was up when Eekie was making gestures like, annoyed/confused at
the sound people, or at least where I assume the sound people
were. He kept kneeling down at the thing at his feet and
adjusting it, which he did a few times but he started really
going at it then. He put his hands over his eyes to see better
and then made kind of a "wtf??" gesture and the continued
fiddling with it. Then someone walked up to Tyrone and whispered
in his ear and The Residents shuffled offstage.
A good amount of people started clapping the way the crowd does
at a concert when they want an encore, because that's what
everyone figured it was! I don't think it even crossed anybody's
minds that the show was about to be cancelled. However, I knew
the show couldn't possibly be over yet-- I knew there was at
least one more dream because I remembered reading that there was
a dream with John Wayne they hadn't shown yet so I was like...
what the **** is going on!!!
Then, Tyrone came on stage and told us "The neighbors called the
police with a noise complaint, and they're threatening to take
away our equipment. Three cheers for the neighbors! Someone
shouted "**** the neighbors!" I think Tyrone also made a comment
about the show maybe being over, but I'm not sure. Then he said,
"we'll be back" and walked offstage again.
Then a few minutes later, someone who I assume was the venue
security came on stage and confirmed that the show was over and
I wandered around distraught. Admittedly, I teared up a tiny
bit! It seemed that everyone else was kind of feeling the same
way. I was standing by the stage waiting for some kind of
information when none other than spokesperson Homer Flynn
appeared. The air was forcibly removed from my body. I told him
it was an honor to meet him and asked for a picture and he said
"If you make it quick! My family's waitin' for me." We took the
picture and I said "I'm sorry!" because I felt bad for bothering
him, but I think he thought I was referring to the concert and
said "aren't we all!" He seemed pretty (VERY understandably!)
annoyed. Even then I was kinda like.... in denial, but then I
saw other Residents crew like Nolan Cook (who I also got to
meet! He was very nice and had a notably strong handshake.)
starting to remove stuff from the stage. And I knew it was
over... :(
We left and my GF kept making jokes about "you know where you
should move if you want peace and quiet? **** NEW YORK CITY!
NEXT TO A CONCERT VENUE!" very loudly where the cops could hear
lol. Everyone seemed very bummed and annoyed, either or both, of
course not with the Residents at all! But with the stupid no fun
allowed party pooping ****-for-brains neighbors.
We went home and I mourned the lost of the like, 40-odd percent
of the show I couldn't see. One day I'll see a full Residents
show and then I'll have seen 1 and 3/5ths of a show lol
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Re: Account of the events at the 4/22 Residents show
By: goatie Date: April 25, 2018, 12:30 pm
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I'm very glad you were able to have an adventure of sorts, even
if it didn't go according to plan. But you've got a story, and
get to impress other Residents nerds with the fact that you were
at the infamous Brooklyn show.
Some day there will be full Residents for you. You probably
can't suddenly decide to have another adventure to Philadelphia
(or even better Atlanta) but more things will happen, I'm sure.
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