Dorks And Losers

I caught Lykke Li again last week on Novem­ber 1, 2008 at The Inde­pen­dent. I haven’t had time to upload the pic­tures I took from it, so now they are up. Unfor­tu­nately, I for­got my cam­era on the drive to San Fran­cisco so I had to use the crappy cam­era on my Sony Eric­s­son phone.

My sis­ter went with me. She likes Lykke Li. This was my first time at The Inde­pen­dent that is close to Cafe Du Nord, which I tend to fre­quent. Much like The Fill­more, The Inde­pen­dent is mostly a large room with a stage and bar. By the way, park­ing sucked ass.

The con­cert didn’t start for forty-five min­utes past its 9:00 PM start time. Then, UK band Friendly Fires came on. I didn’t try to lis­ten to them before the con­cert, and I was pleas­antly sur­prised by their energy and upbeat sound. The gui­tarist is cute. Here’s a pic­ture from the band’s web­site with them and Lykke Li.

Another thirty min­utes pass before Lykke Li takes the stage. I guess there they were hav­ing sound prob­lems because a tech­ni­cian was fix­ing stuff for a while. I must men­tion that dur­ing this time I was pushed from behind by some Asian girl. This was uncalled for dur­ing the inter­mis­sion since there wasn’t any music play­ing. The guy she was with imme­di­ately men­tioned it wasn’t the girl’s fault since she was pushed from behind. I took this as a lie since I didn’t see any­one behind her.

She later annoyed me fur­ther by rub­bing her body all over me dur­ing the Lykke Li’s per­for­mance. Every time I thought I might get a staph infec­tion with that dirty body sweat. Her high nasal voice was screech­ing in my ear when­ever any­thing came out of her mouth.

Lykke Li could have made up for this, but her extremely short set marred her oth­er­wise good music. She didn’t even play “Time Flies.”

I couldn’t find any bet­ter pho­tos other con­cert­go­ers uploaded, so here are my blurry pics. We were actu­ally pretty close to the stage.

Youtube user MAKEYOUSICK took a cou­ple of videos of the con­cert. Has pretty good musi­cal taste.

Friendly Fires — “White Diamonds”

Lykke Li — “I’m Good, I’m Gone”

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