Negative Approach @ TV Eye, Ridgewood, Queens, NY 8/3/24

 

Bill: Negative Approach/No Time/Mugger

Venue:  TV Eye, Ridgewood, Queens, NY

Date: 8/3/24

Door: Sold Out, bought ticket 5/28/24 for $26.08 ($20 plus fee)

Headliner: Negative Approach

Latest Release: Friends of No One (Taang, 2010)

Active: 1981 (Detroit, MI)

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Missed: No Time, Mugger (Dropdead canceled?)

Knowing Negative Approach tend to sell out small clubs in NYC, I bought a ticket last May for the show at my local TV Eye.  It did indeed sell out.  Last time they played there opening for 7 Seconds when the Circle Jerks got covid-cancelled and that one sold out in a day and I had to beg Jonathan Toubin to walk me in, which he kindly did.  This one I lazily bought a few weeks after it went on sale.

I had a friend in town and going to an afternoon gig in Park Slope so I had to car it over to TV Eye.  Got wrapped up in catching up and avoiding going out in a downpour around 7:30.  Then 8:30 I thought to myself 7:30 show, then the 8pm subway G to A to bus or whatever godforsaken hour plus subway route passed.   3 openers should be plenty of time to get a car at 9 I thought to myself.  I'll have another beer with Matt Army and eat a $30 car.  Well that car and traffic took 45 minutes to get there so when I rolled in NA were already on stage and the room was jammed out.   Seems like I saw most of the set.  If 26 songs were played, I probably saw 20 of them, so that's how it goes.  Said my hellos to Brannon and Harold and replaced my lime green Easy Action shirt blowing out a hole in the side with a bright green Tied Down shirt.  I have a logo shirt somewhere but I haven't had it in my t-shirt rotation of late.

Brannon looks good.  The band sounds fast and tight like always and great in a small room although I was stuck in the back from being tardy.