The Donnas and Juliette and The Licks/Paolo

let me make this clear: Juliette and The Licks are amazing
she rocks, and they need to always tour with The Donnas.

The show was held at the brickhouse in Phoenix, nice small venue. I love those. Heath and I got there about 45 min before doors were supposed to open, and there weren't that many people in front of us. A lot of older people, a mixture of men and women which is a nice change to the tweenie girls at half of the shows I attend. Doors opened at 7 and it had been said that the show was starting at 8, but since juliette had joined the bill, the first act went on at 7:30. They were blackmarket. Not impressed, they sounded like every other really bad band out there, although their guitarist/keyboardist was quite good-looking, but that wont make me like them. Donita Sparks was next. She's insane. I did see allison rocking out on the side of the stage though. Their bassist was good and his bass was even better. Nice, loud sound. Heath noticed that the guitar/tamborine player, Sid (that looks as though he should be from the jets from west side story) was yelling at him and there was tension in the band. oooh.
THEN juliette and the licks came on. superr amazing. she started out with hot kiss and it only got better. I only knew about 3 songs, but now I will know them all.
Todd, the guitarist, was awesome. He totally handed me his pick and I totally am wearing it around my neck like a groupie. hah. The bassist kept looking my way, but he totally had a wedding ring on, so I don't know what was up with that. The last song, they all switched instruments, It was one of the best live shows I've been to.
The Donnas were up last.
They intro-ed with bitchin' which is good song to intro to, I know some of their older songs (before 2005) and I only knew about 1-2 of the older ones they played. Their set was very short but Allison was still awesome. Her and tay have the same stage presence. Heath and I hung around a bit afterward and bought some Licks CDs and talked to the merch guy and we were too much of nerds to go talk to Todd.


PAOLO
we were right in front. The openers were good, very complementary to Paolo's music.
Paolo had the Rocky theme playing when he came out, very cool. He's still so shy and nervous when he plays. He never opens his eyes or looks past the mic, or even at the crowd. He played some covers and some new songs. He didnt come out afterwards, too bad. Yes, this is a lame, short entry but I don't care.