Red Room and Addis Abeba
(Feb. 28-AKA The Elephant Man Show that never was....)
review and pics by montana
 

10:30pm: lisa's on the phone from the wild hare, "no, there's no line in front of the cubby bear." she told me, when i called with carmen in the car  on the way to the elephant man show early to beat the crowd.

10:45pm: lisa's on the phone from cubby bear (a lot of noise in the background),"yes, there's a long line out here!" so, we rush to get down addison to get into the show. 

10:50pm lisa's on the phone again, "what? it's cancelled?!" lots of noise in the background... we pull up to see people looking confused and walking away.

we decide to park anyway and at least enjoy the night for what it was worth.  we had to walk up to the cubby bear just to get the final word.  we saw the tour bus outside and knew we had been minutes away from a great show, but no such luck.  teejay was spotted outside of the back door to the cubby bear and we decided to go inside and take a look and get the scoop just as the band's equipment was being disassembled and carried out to the tour bus.

the cubby bear was decorated in pure elephant man paraphanalia.  posters and cards on every pole.  we tried to make the best of the night as i tucked my elephant man bandana in my pocket and headed across the street to adis abeba.

inside adis abeba the mood was mixed as the dj played some old bob marley and some early warm tunes.  you could tell by the faces who was coming from the failed show across the street and who didn't have a clue about what just went on.  we danced and made the best of it and when the crowd got too thick for a decent solo dance ( around 1:45am) we headed south to red room.

red room was nice and hot and steamy (can they get at least ONE more of those big fans up in there, please!) as usual and we did our thing and danced until our (well, mine at least) hair sweated into a jheri curl looking style.  big up to  all the selectors for making a disappointment turn into a good time still.