We escaped briefly last night to go and see Hard-Fi at the Bowery Ballroom, maintaining that fine Brit-in-NYC tradition of seeing great British bands in much smaller venues that youd get to see them in NYC. They wre at the Bowery Ballroom, which probably holds about 500, I’d guess.
But were trying a bit too hard to impress the crowd and create an ‘atmosphere’. At one point Richard Archer, the singer said something along the lines of, “I heard you lot in New York were too cool for school, now prove them wrong and make some noise,” to which the bloke behind us said (and I’ m paraphrasing as this is a family website) “%^$#^&@* mate, half of us are from London you @&%*!” Someone else took pictures here