Tangents Stories

Rooney, Run River North and Messenger Down at Neighborhood Theatre on July 9, 2017

YEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! A fun show by a bunch of awesome bands. I missed Messenger Down because I couldn’t find suitable wrestling tights that matched my fedora hat, but I heard that they rocked. And then Run River North played a set which started really folky but then got really loud! These dudes have massive girl hair and they know how to throw it around! Impressive, dudes and ladies. And then Rooney played a set of pop-rock that reminded me of those golden days in the early 2000s when we all

Fighting for The Double Door Inn

On January 2nd of this year, The Double Door Inn held its final show. After visiting and photographing the building for 23 years, I was witnessing the last night of a place that had come to mean so much to me. My emotions that night were mixed. As others came to grips with the venue’s closing, I silently held out hope for the building to be moved. It was something that myself and others had been working on by this point for months, with occasional flickers of hope.  I first stepped into The

Loudermilks at Neighborhood Theatre on July 30, 2017

Yeah!!!!! For over 20 years, the Edwards brothers have brought the rock to Charlotte. And the pop-rock, the twang-pop and the harmonies. Hell, they’ve been bringing everything but your mamma to the Queen City since 1996. And I hear that your momma used to like to party with Lou Ford at The Double Door Inn back in the day. Now flying around as the Loudermilks, this show celebrated the band’s second album “Monument.” Aided in this night of laid-back hedonism by Amigo and Six String Drag, the night