Since minors stand to be barred from the Black Cat in the near future, this would mean their future access to the venue’s live shows will be solely through the grainy handheld footage found on YouTube. It may make them Time’s Person of the Year, but it will surely do serious damage to their appreciation of live music.
Imagine having to experience the orch-pop of Broadcast by watching this darkened mess:
If the visuals weren’t shaky enough, the band’s music sounds like it’s coming from a broken boombox. Rhett Miller fares slightly better, as does Erase Errata.
But this footage of Shane MacGowan and the Popes is sure to give any Georgetown freshman a mini-stroke: