Morrissey in Austin

Battling with the idea of getting to the Morrissey concert at the crack of dawn, getting there later in the afternoon won out. I was completely satisfied with the Dallas concert. The only thing better would have been to shake his hand from the front row.

We arrived at the new, strange, surreal Backyard at about 3:30. I say strange because it was such a beautiful venue before with all the trees and now many of you know, it is a very odd feature of a parking lot surrounded by shops.

A line of about 40 people were in front of us, with some looking as if they had been there a great part of the day. We sat down on the sidewalk and waited around until 6:30 when they finally opened the gates. Amy was a trooper and I think she was pretty excited about seeing the Moz.

As the gates opened people were running to the front row up against the barrier. We managed to get behind a few people and were with in an arms reach of the barrier. I was really excited about being so close and thought for sure this was finally my chance to shake Morrissey's hand and make eye contact.

It was really a nice evening and not too hot. A nice breeze was blowing and everyone around us was waiting patiently for the show to start.

Kristeen Young came on at about 8 PM and the energy was starting to percolate. I really enjoyed listening to her and Amy liked some of her songs. She has a real interesting sound that reminds me of very early Roxy Music. If you are interested in what she sounds like scroll down to the bottom of the blog and click on one of her you tube videos. They aren't really good quality, but it may give you some idea.

She finished playing and we waited for the man. So everyone is hanging out and things seem fine, when some dickhead comes flying through the crowd, towards the front crashing into Amy. Amy pushed him back and we weren't about to move for this dick. He tried to start something with us and neither of us backed down, but after some of the things he said to both of us and the way he acted, and the fact that he wouldn't leave it alone, we realized that he was completely mental and although he looked 28-30 he was acting like a 15 year old. It was completely strange, he was relentless and attacking us verbally so bad that I had to get security. Security wouldn't do anything about it and I really thought he was going to hurt one or both of us. Then I started picturing him following out of the concert. So we decided to leave.

If you want all the details I can forward you the very long and detailed complaint I filed with The Backyard. I really don't want to rehash the awful experience.

We drove home and decided to eat at one of our most favorite places before we left for Jersey. Galaxy Cafe. We had a nice late dinner and went home.