Big thanks to LA Live for hooking us up with tickets last night to see the one and only Joss Stone.
The girl can flat out sing her ass off and put on a great performance of old songs and new material from her forthcoming album. Below is a short clip from the show last night – doesn’t the one backup singer act like Carlton from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air?
A few quick notes from the show . . .
- Once again Club Nokia workers were incredibly polite and there were a lot of people there to assist.
- It’s a fantastic venue considering it holds only a couple thousand people. I’d say there was maybe 1,000 people there last night at the most.
- I don’t like to describe people by their ethnicity but to get my point across I have to on this one. To the white woman at the concert with her three friends who were black. As a white kid who grew up and went to high school as the minority I can certainly understand the notion of picking up a few terms and acting similar to that of your friends. However, once you hit your late 30s and early 40s (guess at their ages) I don’t know how necessary it is to act so foolish. Telling your friends to “recognize” got old after the 14th or 15th time. Yelling at the top of your lungs for Ms. Stone to “play some old shit” also got tired quickly. Your obnoxious singing angered three people in the row in front of you so much they left, but I’m almost positive you didn’t notice because you were telling your friends to “recognize”. Finally, I hate to break it to you but every time you went to the bathroom (which you announced you were doing to everyone whether we wanted to know or not) your friends made fun of you for being so out of control. Just sayin’ …
People were shouting out requests and Joss started sings a little Jet Lag. The band joined in and things got funny quickly.
Cool post B- I actually had never heard of Joss Stone before but she sounds pretty good (too bad about the loud-mouth in front of you; it’s amazing how one person can wreck a show or movie for a dozen or so people…).
It looks like you took those videos (I was confused at first because I saw multiple camera angles then saw you were filming the TV monitor- pretty good quality though)- what kind of camera do you have?
How did LA Live hook you up with tickets? Through work, a random meeting, through your building? Just curious as “LA Live” is kind of a nebulous entity to me- if you said you won tickets given out by Club Nokia at a bar I would understand…
I hope you’re enjoying our seasonally cool weather- I am, and hoping for one last rain before the drought continues.
She’s got a great voice, I’d encourage you to check her out. Her fourth album comes out this summer and she’s only 22.
The woman in front picked her spots to be annoying but I laughed when she plopped herself down in the seat and hit her head on the rail
It didn’t shut her up though 
Video was taken with our point and shot camera, nothing special. Canon PowerShot A2000is. I’ve never owned a video camera but I now have my eyes on this: http://www.theflip.com/
LA Live’s twitter feed said they had tickets available yesterday afternoon and included an e-mail address for the box office manager. Sent an e-mail saying we’d love to tickets, 10 minutes later got an e-mail back saying to pick them up at the box office. I think there were a ton of freebies since it was so last minute.
The weather the last two days has been great by the way, ha ha.
Thanks B- that’s about the most productive use for Twitter I’ve heard of, other than finding out where Kogi BBQ Truck will be parked…
When someone is “trying to sing” and butchers a song, I always ask…”who sings that song?” and after they tell me the artist, my reply is “lets keep it that way”
I mean seriously its one thing to sing in church and another outside of it.
Great post.