Now baking

The Bakery recently reopened. I say this as if i went before it shut down. i didn't. So, i can't compare, but we went on sat and sun nite and it's a pretty cool venue. It's red with old sofas. I like sofas... particularly at gigs. Sitting down gigs are my favourite. Not that we sat down for Sun Araw, because we didn't. But we did for Grouper on Sunday nite. Sun Araw was great. Not sure if it was the psychedelic music or the fact that R makes me watch too many crime shows on tv, but i was pretty sure that the drops of rain on the front porch when we came home were blood and not rain. We'd bought joint tix for Sun Araw on the sat nite and then Grouper on the sunday. However, by the time sunday evening came round, after a late nite and a free rainy day out in the Valley at a winery watching the Basement Birds, we were quite tempted to not head out for Grouper. It was a dark, rainy and windy evening, x factor was on and i was cooking up some hard boiled eggs... Luckily however sixthousand's post on facebook to get up and push on thru the hangover inspired us to pause xfactor (ohmigod, i love pausing live tv) and drive down to the bakery. We sat on a sofa, drank fizzy pop and nearly fell asleep to the sounds of Grouper. To be honest i didn't really dig Grouper. I liked her vocals and there was a nice haunting sound to it but, as anyone who knows me will know, i have a time problem, so one song that goes on for a whole set and lasts about 30 mins is my idea of hell. Like, if it hasn't stopped after 3 minutes, will it ever stop? And that thought scares me. But the sunday vibe and the sofas and the ambient table lamps made it v. cosy and mellow so i was pleased we made the effort. We then drove home, unpaused x factor and carried on with our vegging out. P.s. the photo's taken at the winery.... best caption wins a prize.