Venue:
The Jefferson Theater
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Time:
9:00pm
Openers:
Alberta Cross
Headliner: Portugal. The Man
Prelude to a Show:
Alberta Cross advertised a chance to win tickets to a show
of your choice by signing up with their website for email alerts. I signed up
for the 10/26 Charlottesville show at The Jefferson Theater and dutifully
checked my email for the rest of the evening and through most of the next day.
Nothing.
Defeated, I came home from work, made dinner and put on my
pajamas (you know where this is going right?). I climbed in bed around 7:00pm
to spend some time online, but wait… what’s this? An email from the management
team for Alberta Cross with a time stamp of 12:30pm? How did I miss it? Is
there still time? Could I really get dressed, grab gear (pen, notebook, camera,
etc…) and get from Richmond to Charlottesville in time?
And here we go ....
Props to the Battle of the Band winners Against Grace and Drew Martin & the Limelights who both put on engaging and energetic shows. 
Drew Martin & the Limelights were a bit more pop oriented with catchy choruses and smooth vocals. Deep Blue Something (remember them? no? "Breakfast at Tiffany's"?) came to mind while listening. This band was a bit too soft for my taste but I can definitely see an appeal for radio play. Oh, Drew, please create a band web page. FaceBook, Twitter and the like are nice, but a band web page is much easier to peruse.
Dismal day for a show but the lines outside the venue grew longer by the minute and nothing could have deterred the fans from coming in droves. Some dressed in black, some in colors and some hardly dressed at all. Oh and there was one banana… make that two bananas. The clouds dropped just enough rain to dampen everything to a miserable soggy mess and blew just enough wind to remind you how wet you’d become… and that was before the show! (badum-ch)
