Just got tix for Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks. Yay!
Odd thing, though. They're playing the show at the Haw River Ballroom, in Saxapahaw NC. It's a little town, a bit west of Chapel Hill, bit south of Burlington, at the end of the Sellers Manufacturing Company Lake, and one I'd never heard of. It has a population of 1,418 (2000 census). So, that sounds like an odd place for a band like SM & the J's to play.
Here's what it looks like from space:
Rural!
Upon further consideration, I guess a place that's roughly halfway between Greensboro and Raleigh (the bigger central NC cities) isn't really a bad place for a show. And from the pix on their website, the ballroom actually looks like a cool place. It's the former "dye house" of the Saxapahaw cotton mill, right on the banks of the Haw river: "with three levels, a riverside deck, a concessions bar and coffee shop, a full service stage and sound system, gorgeous historic detail, solar and geothermal power and an idyllic rural setting..." So, cool. Plus, geothermal power!
Jicks!
Poor Mrs C... I keep buying her tickets to shows she won't like.