Stacy Schwartz

At the Pixies show at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium on Sunday night, I began in the photo pit waiting for the first strains of “Debaser” to hit. When they did, the photographers all rushed into the pit—and I gotta tell you, it’s actually a bit tough to shoot bands you have a reverence for. You have to remind yourself to pay attention to your task instead of standing in awe and singing along to whatever’s playing right in front of you. This doesn’t happen to me all that often, but it did at the Pixies. Especially since they were paying all of Doolittle, and three of the first five songs on the album are my favorites.

Someday my phone will actually have enough battery power for me to actually tweet a show. When this happens I'll be able to just cut and paste from Twitter and be done with my review. However, since this was not the case at Gaelic Storm on Thursday night, I hope you'll put up with my "what should have been."