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What a night, where do I begin? I met E outside the venue about 2 hours before the show and got a picture of him holding the picture of him holding my drawing. He was happy to finally meet the artist. I was the first person in the venue so I got to get the best position at the stage. I was so close I could have untied E's shoelaces if I wanted to. The mime opening act came on late as he got lost for about ten minutes on Commonwealth Ave looking for the club. I overheard one of the roadies comment: "how in the hell could he miss the giant marquee flashing EELS?")

When EELS took the stage, the little club just erupted. The crowd was really energetic, even though a good deal of them had never heard of EELS. JOE GORE IS SO COOL!!! He reminds me of the comic book character Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan (three cheers for anyone who knows who the hell I'm talking about). The final encore included Butch doing Novocaine For The Soul. He kept leaving out the parts "...you better give me something to fill the hole" and Jehovah's Witness. Agony is incredible! When E did World Of Shit, he was practically paralized. I thought he was going to cry... Awww... E misses his missus. It was just an incredible show. We met everyone outside by the big purple bus. Joe signed my A Man Called E album with a personal message to E saying "I know I inspired every single note of this album, take it easy, Joe." Then he told me E must sign it. Butch came out and he was uber-friendly and I got my picture taken with him and he signed my friend's shirt "BUTCH IS GOOD". And E came out and he was like "you again?" in a joking manner and I got a picture with him and showed him Joe's message on A Man Called E and he wrote back "I BLAME JOE-E".

[review and picture by Michelle]