does hiro have a box office?

i'd prefer not to give ticketweb the extra dollars in fees and don't think this will sell out until at least tomorrow.

thanks.

at least it's not ticketmaster.

no box office at hiro. i'd try mercury lounge box office but call them first. tix only are sold til 7pm though.

i think the shows are bowery presents, so you should be able to get tickets without fees at the mercury lounge box office.

hiro also always sells tickets at the door, even if the show is super sold out. (i've gotten tickets to beck, lily allen, and cat power at the door in the past)

*newsflash!

ticketweb is owned by ticketmaster.

You can probably try the Mercury Lounge since I believe it's a Bowery Presents show.

I am excited to see Cat Power again after seeing her at Town Hall in June '06 (and not indulging in the earlier Hiro or Irving Plaza shows), but isn't she milking it just a tad?

Anybody know whether this will be a solo acoustic show, or with band?

SOLO, but as long as it ain't one of *those* nights, cat power is always worth seeing.

Alexis Joel... hahaha... no, seriously.... hahahaha!

does anyone know if there is an opener or what time she will go on approx. just trying to maximize my super bowl time!
thx

does anyone know if there is an opener or what time she will go on approx. just trying to maximize my super bowl time!
thx

does anyone know if there is an opener or what time she will go on approx. just trying to maximize my super bowl time!
thx

does anyone know if there is an opener or what time she will go on approx. just trying to maximize my super bowl time!
thx

the last time she played hiro, there was no opener. she came on about one hour after the doors.

these shows are solo

tickets currently on sale for both shows

http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=nyc&query=schedule&venue=hiroballroom

this is from memory, ie. don't quote me on this - i think doors are at 7pm, there isn't an opener, and she'll come on solo around 8 or 8:30pm.

I know supposedly Cat Power is "better" live than she used to be, but I've given up on seeing her live. I tried... many times.

i wouldn't give up on herjust yet. her last show at hiro was amazing.

thanks for the mercury lounge tip. i picked up a ticket earlier today.

(take that, ticketweb!)

can someone *please* take pictures so we can rehash the comment section from the last cat power show @ Hiro. Seriously, you kept me entertained for hours on a slow work day.

goddammit bao, put that effing camera away.

for the monday show, there's an opener listed (Tan Or Boil), but not for the sunday show...hmmmm....both have doors at 7pm. maybe chan wants to be able to catch the end of the superbowl.

i called the mercury lounge and they had no idea whether there would be an opener.

Prince is so irrelevent. Jesus. Play a song from this century. What's his next song? Batdance?

Fish, first you might want to consult a dictionary. It's "irrelevant." Second, you might want to understand that at a Super Bowl, people want to hear hits. Prince could have played something from his last album (2006's 3121, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts by the way) but his playing of his hits was no different than Paul McCartney's appearance, or that of most of the truly musically relevant performers that have graced the halftime stage. Not everyone gives a crap about shit hipster bands whose careers won't last beyond 4 albums. Prince has released at least an album a year since 1978.

all kidding aside, the photographers were out of control at that show.
cut that shit out.

I'm a big fan of Cat Power's music and I love her last album. A good friend warned me never to pay money to see her live, but since I heard she's sober now, I figured she would prove him wrong. Sunday's Cat Power show was the worst show I'd ever seen. Seriously. She would start a song, stop, start over, quit, start a new song, repeat. Many songs she would get all the way through, but only after losing track of tempo and key. Then she would "banter" with her guitarist (and the crowd) between songs for several minutes. She was rambling, barely coherent. She was slurring her words, attempting to charm us with anecdotes that went nowhere and usually made no sense. At one point (I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING!), she pointed at a two women dancing in the corner and yelled, "Look at the gays!" She laughed and followed up with, "The gays! In the hallways!" The crowd laughed at her little rhyme and then applauded! I couldn't believe it. Those women were completely mortified. And the audience was indulging this behavior like she was some sort of charming yet spoiled mentally ill nine-year-old. Yes, she has beautiful voice. But come on. She's sober now? Really? Coulda fooled me.

Oh come on, she wasn't drunk! She wasn't slurring any words from what I could hear. Performance was ok. The place was freezing cold and from that alone I expected it not to be so good. I had a jacket, a fleece and a winter hat on the whole time and was barely warm. Have you ever tried to play music on a cold stage? Let alone in front of 500 people? I doubt it. I thought her banter was funny and gives you a little insight into the interesting person that she is. I only remember her stopping one song on the guitar early on saying that it was "cold" If anyone expects Cat Power to get up on stage and "render" songs just as they are on a record, you have a lot to learn about music.

Also a big middle finger goes out to the lady who screamed "your two hours late" as soon as Chan hit the stage and the super annoying photogs up front. Isn't the rule like first 3 songs only?

so, why, exactly, are so many of you acting surprised that Cat Power's live performances are awful? It's pretty well documented by now...

Kudos to the lady who screamed "your two hours late" for calling Chan out!

When we were standing outside waiting to get let in, Chan passed by and said hello to all of us and told us to go inside..we told her they wouldn't let us in...she went inside and told the men at the door to let us in, she was pointing at us, telling them it was cold and asked them to let us in. But they wouldn't let us in til almost 7 30.

@j.ult

No, she said she couldn't remember how to play that song because it was old. Old. "This is an old one." Not a cold one.

Besides, it's remarkably cold in David Letterman's studio, yet musician's manage to eke out decent performances.

Obviously I didn't expect her to sound like she does on record. But falling off key, losing tempo, and stopping mid-song because she forgot the words isn't part of what anyone would call a good performance.

And the banter wasn't funny. It was incoherent. It was sad that people thought it was funny.

Maybe she wasn't drunk.

She was still a mess.

tab –

obviously you didn't notice, but the two women she had made "the gays" comment toward had been talking to each other the entire set, and then they danced for about one minute during "the greatest" and then started talking again. she playfully called them out earlier in the set, calling them "bitches," and that's when she said she would substitute the word "pigeon" for "bitch." When she said "look at the gays" it just seemed to be a joke on michael richards' recent rant. anyway, that's chan, and that's the way her solo shows usually go. up thread there is a link on Qbertplaya's post, and i think she summed up the evening nicely. plus she posted a good little clip from the show.

crap.

now i don't know if i want to go tonight.

that miserable, huh?

for $25 too.

hrmm.

She wasn't drunk. These negative reviews are overblown. She just has issues. It's always been this way. She makes people uncomfortable with endless, paranoid mubling, but she also delivers beautiful, stiring renditions of great songs. Some good stuff, some bad stuff. No big deal.

"for $25 too."

that's a deal to be in the presence of such a genius.

The show was not a train wreck, but definitely a disappointment. Her stage banter was incoherent and/or inaudible. She's a great singer, a great songwriter, but she lacks sorely as a performer.

@ anon 3:50

Michael Richards? WTF? You think she had it together enough to be making sophisticated pop culture references? Was that before or after the murmuring ramblings that went NOWHERE?

So it wasn't a crappy performance? She's a post-modern comedienne! I get it. Like Andy Kaufman, right?

Right.

Or maybe she just said the first thing that came to her mind. She saw to women dancing and decided to yell, "Look at the gays!" And that's what she did. That seems more likely. More in line with the rest of her absurd behavior.

@ anon 3:50
(see above)

Not sure what I saw last night but I'm quite sure it wasn't genius.

tab -

i was at the foot of the stage, and as i said before, she had been eyeing those two women, pointing, and throwing comments at them long before she said "the gays." but, whatever, believe whatever it is you want to believe. obviously, after seeing her ONE TIME, you have her and her live performances nailed down. i guess you're the genius.

@ anon 5:01

I didn't say anything about anything but her performance last night. And regardless of your vicinity to the stage, her outbursts were still completely inappropriate.

Look, she's a professional musician and performer. Her behaviour was unprofessional. And her performance was poor.

Period.

Remove all the imagined back story and all we're left with was a bad performance.

yeah. she sucked. what was that nonsense she kept going on about? heres an idea--stop mumbling and play a song.

It was pretty special to see her play with Judah Bauer on guitar. In the solo parts she was a bit unhinged but that's to be expected.
Does anyone know what the first song was? It must be a cover, it seemed so familiar but I can't place it.

Besides the half-assed effort on her part, what bothered me most was the incessant flash photography. People please...turn off your fucking flashes. I realize you've got a dozen friends waiting on your flikr post, but did you really need to snap fifty frames of Chan's every move? And that's specifically directed at the jackass who SAT on the lip of the stage rocking his flash full tilt for the ENTIRE performance. Really obnoxious.

And I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the joy it was to stand outside for about an hour last night waiting for them to open doors. If doors are advertised at 7pm, soundcheck should occur at the very least one hour prior. And a lot of good that soundcheck did with her vocal distorting all night.

Hoping for more from Chan and less from the novice digital camera owners on night two...

relax, people. Chan is Chan, for better or worse. just because she was clean for a show or an interview or a tour doesn't mean she was (or wasn't) last night, or will be tonight. sobriety is just the state you're in until your next drink/hit/fix/bet/binge, and even sober, Chan is a bit odd (though delightfully so, I'd argue). if you want a predictable show, go see Conor Oberst or someone. - thanks for the previews of tonight, folks.