Yea, it's the best thing about my job, getting to talk to some cool people from time to time. Sadly, this is going to be severely curtailed after the first of next year. The main music venue in the town I write about is closing down then. It was the one booking all these fine folks. I hope some other venue steps up to fill in the gap, but I'm not sure.
On the lighter tradition, here's a funny thing I picked up on just last night. I was watching a BBC special on Kraftwerk's residency at London's Tate Modern last year and the group's official photographer (he's only allowed to photograph their robotic counterparts, though) observed how the fusion of man and machine has arrived in the present day as concert-goers have their smartphones in the air, in lieu of those candles, etc. That tickled me.
