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Dives and divas
Charlotte goes club hopping
Last week I dove into the dive bar scene at Jeff's Bucket Shop on Montford Road, which may as well be called Dive Drive. There is nothing shiny about Jeff or his Bucket Shop; it's diminutive, grubby, and crowded (even though there were only about 20 people there). Yet, it was an endearing venue with Will Adams, a new artist on the Q.C. music scene making his Charlotte debut. I foresee him playing his alt-country with a bigger band in a bigger venue in the near future, cause he's talented and cute enough to make it. But seeing as how a big-name band like Simplified still plays every Sunday at the neighboring dive, The Press Box, you can make a big splash with a little dive.
My homeboy Eric, whom I go back to sophomore English at Virginia Tech with, was in town from Arizona, so -- hoping to show him a good time in the Q.C. in celebration of his birthday -- I took him to Grand Central. Eric, who was wearing a brand name t-shirt, was told he couldn't come in because he was wearing a jersey. I was waiting for the bouncer to say we were being punk'd, but he never did. Eric wears a jersey to work everyday out in Arizona, but he was actually wearing a cotton T-shirt while here in Charlotte ... as were a lot of other dudes. So we just went and tore up different dance floors and bought another bar instead -- The Basement at Brick and Barrel and Phil's. I respect policies, but training the bouncers on the difference between cotton and jersey would be productive in implementing these policies ... I'm just saying.
And on Sunday we ventured down Wilkinson Boulevard to Club Tempo to see yet another concert compliments of Mike Kitchen. Tamia was kicking off CIAA week with her Between Friends tour. Once you get past the airport level security at the door, Club Tempo is perhaps one of the nicest bars in Charlotte, with its classy ambiance and crowd. I got there early for the Ciroc tasting and sat there bored as hell listening to mellow jazz accompanying an empty dance floor (I wanted to break out the Bus Stop). The crowd was so mellow it took the bubbly and super sweet Consuella from Power 98 to get the crowd hyped. But then Anthony David opened up and set a different kind of mood with his rhythm and blues. Meanwhile, Tamia made it do what it do with her remixed lyrics to Jackson 5 and Lil' Kim beats, which got the crowd so hyped they were standing on chairs. She may not be a diva, but she definitely works a stage and sings like one.
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