Last night we wasted a half hour on line for the Strokes/Kanye show at Capitale. We were on the list, we think, but we are not models, so ... denied! Like Brandon Davis at Hyde! Whatever, the Strokes and Kanye play together all the time, right? We should've taken a page from Stereogum reader Adam who was uptown sneaking into the TV On The Radio show. By pretending to be in the band! He writes...
I show up 15 minutes before doors armed with my beard and saxophone, ask the woman at the door if there's a side entrance for musicians, she directs me around. I knock on the door, and say that I'm with "the band," playing sax for the New York shows. The burly guard is about to send me around, saying I need to get my pass from the front, when his superior says "wait, what band's he with?" I reply "TV on the Radio" and he sends me with someone else to get my pass. The man taking me says "I kind of have to stay down here, it's just 3 floors up. I decide not to take my chances and try for the pass, because they may have a list which I certainly was not on. I walk up one flight, enter Irving Plaza during Grizzly Bear's sound check, and lay low with the merch folk until the doors open and I am safe. The show was incredible, and they closed with a 15 person drunken percussion rendition of "Ambulance."
Adam, we so fucking salute you. Hope it was a real beard, though. Otherwise that's sort of pathetic.
