On Saturday night Hepcat and I decided to head out for an evening of music and food on the shores of the Gowanus. We were curious about the bands Asobi Seksu and Golden Triangle that were playing outdoors on President Street and we knew that vendors from the Greenpoint Food Market would selling be their home-made specialties at this event organized by Mean Red Productions.
Our evening walk in the Gowanus area was lovely. We passed the Trash Pony Bar on Fourth Avenue, which is Root Hill Cafe’s evening bar and music venture, and caught a little bit of music by Matthew Brookshire from Chapel Hill, NC.
Walking across Carroll Street is always a treat. We passed Monte’s Venetian Room, a now-defunct neighborhood Italian eatery, that I went to with my dad years and years ago. As we neared Bond Street we could hear the throbbing guitars and high pitched vocals of Yuki Chikudate, Asobi Seksu’s singer. When we got to the entrance at 8:40 we realized that the show was set to end at 9PM (duh we should have looked at the poster that was on the blog) but we paid the steep admission fee ($15) anyway just to see what it was like.
