The concert was at Chastain park Amphitheatre in Atlanta, GA, Saturday, September 13, 2008.

The venue was pretty packed. It was interesting that a large contingent of the handicapped spaces were parallel parking.

I should have taken a real camera with me since the iPhone’s camera was unequipped to handle the lighting situation.  Missy Higgins was the opening act.  It was great to hear some of the old songs, as well as three new tracks from the new album which is set to be released in February 2009.  They gave us the actual names of two of the new songs, but not the third one, which they said had only been played six times previously.

Emily made a comment that it was really great to play on stage at Chastain, where she had attended quite a few concerts herself.  They also sang Happy Birthday for Marie, one of the friends of Amy’s nephew, who was attending her first concert at Chastain.

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The unsigned Manchester-based band, The Get Out Clause, gets props for a creative use of the CCTV surveillance cameras in the UK.

Since they lacked the funds for equipment and crews, they setup in front of a series of cameras in Manchester and then used the footage, requested via the Freedom of Information Act, to create a music video.

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This is pretty nifty.  I especially liked the fact that they performed on an escalator and a public bus.

Well for today’s music, we are featuring some nice work with bottles.

The first video is of a Chinese group that is playing the theme from Mario on partially filled glass bottles. However, they are playing is via an RC car.

The second video is of a trio playing the theme from Tetris using partially filled bottles. I like they way that they appear to have performed it fairly slowly and sped it up for the final video cut.