Showing posts with label joell ortiz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joell ortiz. Show all posts

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Tuesday 8th April 2008

Tuesday 8th April 2008
Today was our last day in NYC, we were lucky enough to have a Big Apple Greeter to show us around Harlem… It was a fantastic and informative tour, but I will get into that later… Harlem is such an interesting place, in its rise and fall, only to be coming up again… Great architecture and culture…

The tour ran late and we had to get home and have some dinner before the Joell Ortiz show… I was feeling pretty crappy with the cold but we made our way out, the restaurant we wanted to go to had a 45 minute wait, and we didn’t have the time, we ended up at a local Italian, it wasn’t great, we didn’t get the name or exact location and no photos of the food… We were hungry and in a rush, it filled the spot… Then off to SOBs for the Joell show, it was a fairly interesting night… The sound took a while to iron out, there were a few interesting acts… Was totally bizarre to hear M Phazes being shouted out, haha… It was good to see Ari again, but I was struggling to stay awake… I left just before Joell came on, sad I know, but Mark had Ari to chill with, so I walked home and went to bed as we had a 5am start to get to Vegas…




Friday, April 11, 2008

Joell Ortiz @ SOBs…

Joell Ortiz @ SOBs…
Corrie and I had booked tickets to see Hip Hop artist Joell Ortiz in London, but had passed them up in favour of hanging out with our friends… So we were more than happy when he announced he was performing at SOBs in New York during our stay…
We eventually got tickets online (the physical box office never seemed to be open – the door was unlocked but never staffed), paying all those annoying extra costs for the privilege…
SOBs is a 2 minute walk from our accommodation in Greenwich Village, so we walked down early and entered a tiny, empty venue…
The support acts (both billed and unbilled) kicked off early, but for the most part sucked (aside from opener Dan Johns who worked a crowd even with faulty sound, and Emilio Rojas who was good despite battling illness)…By the time Joell Ortiz had made it on stage, the venue was packed and the crowd were hyped for his set…
Joell smashed It, working his way through tracks from his brilliant ‘The Brick: Bodega Chronicles’ LP from last year, as well as treating the rowdy crowd to some brand new tracks and breaking between songs to chat with the audience…
A cracking show…