The Skinny Kid From Superbad stays here and other celebrity tales

The Skinny Kid From Superbad (and more recently, Juno) was just here.

Other celeb sightings/recent guests of Hotel Congress:

Ben Harper (very into the B-Side Players show that night)
Some guy who was a correspondent on The Daily Show
She Wants Revenge
All the lads from Avenged Sevenfold
All the folks from Gogol Bordello
All the lovelies in Of Montreal
The lead singer of Korn

You?

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Mickey Avalon - Tuesday, October 16



Helmet - Wednesday, November 21

oh my god!

we here at congress all want to wish the speedy recovery of Oh My God! , who were involved in every serious head on collision earlier this weekend. It breaks the heart hearing news of any one we know and love being involved in these types of things.
we had a show planned for them on Oct 19th, but obviously they will be recuperating from that awful accident and wont be able to play , our thoughts are with them.
If you want to send them love or want updates to their collective condition visit their myspace at their myspace at http://www.myspace.com/ohmygod. again, our most sincere and heart felt well wishes goes out to the band and those who love them.

Sincerely,
C.C.

looking forward

guitar hero is kicking my ass, its like i play for one week and i get all kinds of good then i get to a level ( expert) and i'm just a noodled fingered wimp. one of my favs is heart full of black by the Burning Brides. i have an idea, lets have a guitar hero party at the club! let work it out.

Here is a link to a song of burning brides new album Hang Love, song is called " She comes to me".

Tonight we have a free show until bang bang, Arctic monkeys/Voxtrot after hours. should be a DANCE party.

DH

Music Blog?

So lets test something out . how about a music blog? for instance , over the Rhine is playing here really soon and heres a mp3 :


over the rhine:
If A Song Could Be President.mp3

so how awesome is that? bam. a MP3 on the site. for over the rhine : who look like this:

hot right?

sept 26th $15 in adv & $17 @ the door Doors open at: 7pm

We have artist!

Here at the Club we realize that we are not just a place where people work , we are a place in which Artists work! think about it, its the coolest place in town, we have beer And we kinda have this bohemian thing going. For example , Take out most excellent Server Joseph young. you might look at him and think , hey theres a guy with immaculate facial hair, or that guy really got on top of making sure i had insufficient drinking water. but what you don't know is that this guy is actually a really a talented artist who is more than happy to direct you to his website http://www.uber.com/josephyoung where he gots the some tasty eye food or art if you want to be PC about it, up for viewing.

the you tubes connection

Show tonight! its the Ike Reilly assassination.

This video for the Ike Reilly assassination is really sweet , its all like retro french mixed with hip home movies of shooting guns. It even has a french girl dressed up all like Walt Disney himself drew her, but i don't know if she was talking proper french! She was probably talking about bread or types of cheeses!




Speaking of French people i just found this video of Besnard lakes playing for a bunch of france people. who by the way are playing a early show on wednesday , plug plug wink wink.




also side note, what the hell is going on with brittney spears!?




serious, i'm worried about our homegirl . but honestly , its probably going to be most amazing celebrity melt down ever. this is going to be like how it felt to watch the moon landing on that sound stage in west hollywood. ( its actually not a good idea to joke about the moon landing with buzz aldren , i have seen his old ass knock a bitch out!)


i'm puling for you brittney! i am totally going to go out and buy your new album, and by buy your new album i mean find it online and hide tracks in mix tapes i make for friends as a joke, and by hiding them in a mix tapes i mean watching you on youtube while i eat cheetos.

Rebirth

What is this rebirth? a return to form? a gossip- trash site? yes! no! maybe.. who knows , we will find out. everything will be discussed and documented for the prosperity of life and music and memories will gain equity i tell you! Equity , theres a market and we are selling!

We could wax poetic about it , we could talk about some spiritual awaking or make grandeouse analogies that we learned about in first semester creative writing... in fact .. i will!

* ahem*
" A nominal whispered exchange between ancient rumbling creatures transversing the threads of astral planes will, at one singular moment, share all of transcendental eternity and clarity. Breaking free from the 7 mentions of the dimensions of breath, a single, unfathomably small impression of the the elders communion finds itself exploding into presence over a dark horizon. This star child, dense and transparent at the same time, illuminates the mindscape and the desert air. "

See thats great! print sold! money and food and quick sprints through cool desert autumn nights for everyone!






-CC

Monday Night with FranzFerdinand

Our humble abode can fit about 400 people. Outdoors, we can pull off a thousand. Still not enough room for a Death Cab/ Franz Ferdinand show. Centennial Hall got that one but as soon as Franz got off stage, those great Scots showed up for 80's night.

For those not in Tucson, Monday night at Hotel Congress is pretty huge. Between 9pm and 2am, about 600 people mill in & out of here. With 80 cent drink specials and Spyder spinning jams from the 80's , it's quite the party. The only downside is going to work Tuesday with a hangover, a small price to pay, I believe.

This particular Monday, with the Franz appearance, everyone was amped up from Spring Break and perhaps Spring Fever, Spring Cleaning, Spring Love, etc. Is it even officialy Spring yet? I have no idea. Anyhow, all the FF guys were pretty cool. They didn't bitch about the 23947320987 autographs or the pics they had to pose for. They just walked around, chatted it up, and drank like champs. Here's to poor hipsters buying drinks for rich rock stars. Oh, the irony.

At one point, some asshole decided to pull the "I know you're famous but I don't give a shit so I'll prove that by being a prick" card. He started talking shit to Alex, of FF, just saying ridiculous illogical comments so we had him kicked out. I mean, we're not about treating celebs like royalty but if you treat any of our bands or staff or patrons like crap, we'll show you the door. R-E-S-P-E-C-T that is all we ask for.

I really only had the chance to talk to Alex. First off, Scottish accents are mighty great. Second, his girlfriend is in a band that has rocked the Congress. Third, when Franz takes some chill time, he might be doing a bit of a solo tour.

Oh, yeah. The show. I didn't go, too much work to do her & still recovering from Mexico & life in general- but word on the street is that Franz kicked ass and DeathCab kinda put the people to sleep. I could have called that one. I listen to DC when I want to ponder life's meaning; not exactly a picker upper.

Til next time
-Nicole

PS Look out for posts from me, David, bartenders, barbacks, maybe a few regualrs. Who the hell knows? Anything can happen here.