Review by Marco Villalobos
Eek-A-Mouse and Pato Banton
at the Vault 350, Long Beach
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Better Than: Cleaning up spilled bong water on your dorm room carpet.
Download: Prime Eek-A-Mouse videos from back in the day: In The Ghetto, Schoolboy, Wa Do Dem, the Mouse in Israel.
He’s a Jamaican national treasure, a reggae legend, a six-foot-six black cowboy with a nasal scat that just may be the most identifiable vocal style in the world. It’s been 28 years since Eek-A-Mous
OPEN JAM NIGHT, 9 p.m.
More fun than closed jelly.
Perq's
117 Main St.
Huntington Beach CA
714-960-9996
THE WAILERS; EEK-A-MOUSE; PATO BANTON, 7 p.m.
For heightened acoustics, smoke pot before entry.
Pacific Amphitheatre
Orange County Fairgrounds, Fair Dr.
Costa Mesa CA
714-740-2000
JOBING.COM CAREER FAIRE, until 5 p.m.
Nothing takes takes the mind off of joblessness like a career fair!
Anaheim Convention Center
800 W. Katella Ave.
Anaheim CA 92802
(714) 765-8950
BACK TO THE EIGHTIES, 9 p.m.
(Lede)
I don't care what kind of music you came to see, thirty four bands, in thirty two acres of space turned a hot weekend in Chinatown into a non stop sonic binge.
Last saturday, thousands of fans from all over So Cal trucked into the dust bowl parking lot across from L.A. Historic Park for the ___annual We The People Festival. In case you didn't catch that little reference to the Constitution, the event was designed to do two things: entertain and inform. In addition to rocking your socks
Live Nation hasn't had the best PR lately, what with nearly unanimously negative response to their plans to merge with Ticketmaster--but who says that giant corporations don't have some neat ideas every now and then? This Friday the 13th (tomorrow, for those non-calendar inclined), they'll be selling tickets to a bunch of southern California shows for just $13 each, for 13 hours from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Additional services charges apply--of course!Full list of eligible Orange County shows (like L
Long Beach's Chapter 11's new record, Premium Blend, is available now. Click here to buy that shit, yo. Founded in 1998, Chapter 11 has played a blend of reggae and hip-hop at probably every local venue you could think of (and probably some you can't). They've got a show July 18 in San Bernadino with Eek-A-Mouse.
