Heligoats new song (29.3 MB) Indie Coffee Madison, WI March 27, 2008

(Fixed? Seems that way. Hey Apple, Compressor still doesn't work right with Leopard, and it's been like six months. Hint, hint.)

When we leave Madison -- even if we wind up in Chicago -- these Heligoats shows will be one of the things I miss the most. A couple times a year Chris Otepka comes to Indie Coffee with an acoustic guitar and plays through a bunch of mostly new material for an audience that's nothing but music-lovers. It's mostly the same bunch of us each time, I think, but it doesn't get old.

This time Chris almost had a full band with him. He was accompanied by a violinist friend named Kara and would have had a drum-brusher, except he got caught by the bad whether between here and Chicago. They were stopping by on their way up to Michigan Tech of all places, where they had a show scheduled the next night in the black box theater where I played a number of shows as an undergrad. Hopefully it went well -- nobody ever came up there while I was in school, and it'd be nice to see it become something of a regional destination.

Anyway, apropos of nothing, this is, I think, a new tune about a marathon-runner, which Chris introduced with a story somebody dying during the Chicago Marathon. Cheery stuff! But on the whole, the show was quite fun, as usual. Also, this was the first of these shows that we ate at instead of just getting coffee, and the waffles are great!