After our
tour of the Cincinnati Museum Center, Dan, Bradley and I headed across the river to Southgate House in Newport.
Now, this is another thing I hate to publicly admit: I'd never been to Southgate. Well that's not technically true-- I was upstairs once, for an
art show-- but I'd never seen a concert there. All I'd heard were amazing things about how this was
the venue for (greater) Cincinnati. When I read that my darling
Blitzen Trapper was coming, I figured it was time to finally make my way over to Newport.
First off, let me say that Blitzen Trapper-- and their opening act,
Wye Oak-- put on an incredible show. And I was able to hear "
Furr" live... I've probably listened to that song more often than the band has.
And Southgate was great. We couldn't get any solid pictures because we wanted to leave the camera in the car, but here's a shot of the fat brick mansion-turned-concert hall from Flickr user
damongreen.
Southgate House website:
http://www.southgatehouse.com/Blitzen Trapper website:
http://www.blitzentrapper.net/Wye Oak website:
http://www.myspace.com/wyeoak
