If only Drew had been there.

For some reason that escapes me now, it was determined that we must not miss Echo and The Bunnymen performing in Orlando this past June.  At the House of Blues. In the middle of Downtown Disney.  Downtown Disney is the center of hell unless you have children.  For us non child bearing peeps, it is torture to walk one end to the other.  Fat asses, fanny packs, strollers, running children, dirty children, children with dirty hands, germ carrying children, and their smelly parents, were everywhere. But we managed to make it to the HOB relatively unscathed.  Thank goodness we wore rubber gloves and surgical masks.  It's worse than being in a room with 10 hippies and a tambourine.

Echo sounded crisp and very clear.  The acoustics in the HOB are incredible.  We were stage right at the bar when the show began and we could actually have a conversation.  Later we moved down to the floor after I decided it had to be louder somewhere in there.  Sure enough, we could no longer hear ourselves and suddenly began vibrating from the bass.  Which is how it should be at a rock n roll concert.  All in all a great show and it was nice to see a band that has had so much influence still out and about.  I never saw them in the eighties (cuz I was too young of course) so I'm glad I got the chance now.  Strange that they would owe their resurgence to Drew Barrymore via Donnie Darko though.  She obviously had good taste in music when she was 10 and strung out on heroin.