Selling Out Venues Nationwide, I’m Proud to Bring You…The National?!
So you’re a relatively small band, thats been around for a few years, finally building yourself enough national attention to mount your very own nationwide tour. Imagine your excitement, you wake up the first day tickets go on sale, and see that they are selling out with in hours. Then you realize its mostly due to the opening act you booked, the unproven, super hyped (admitidly desereved), Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. I would still be absolutely excited to know that all the shows were selling out, it’s kind of the way things normally work with shows but in reverse, opening acts cling to larger acts to bring their small time gig to a larger audience, and in hope bring a larger audience to themselves. I’m not saying one band is greater than the other, CYHSY are so hot right now, but The National are a great band in and of themselves. Here I am posting one of my favorite songs from the album, along with a link to a great post from Music (for Robots) pointing to the first song I heard from the Alligator “Mr. November”, which sort of has a “wash your hair once every two weeks” Nada Surf kinda thing to it, so it should be the biggest song on the radio, and that’s not a bad thing!
The National - Abel