No Age at Wellesley

No Age show at Wellesley College last Thursday with Nick. It was a school night and I felt lazy. I wanted mostly just to sit around and watch TV all night. But Nick finally convinced me to take him around 5:30. On our way down I started freaking out when I got confused about which exit we were supposed to take to get to the school. We ended up in Salem for a while and I almost turned around and went back home. The thing is, our directions from MapQuest told us to get off at exit 20B. I immediately recognized that this exist is nowhere near Wellesley – exit 20B goes to Beverly. Little did I know, route 128 eventually becomes route 95 and then the numbering for exits changes up completely. Essentially, there are two exits 20B on 128. FML.

We got there around 8:45. It was an all-girls campus so it felt especially awkward wandering around trying to find the show. No one seemed to even know it was going on. Finally one girl we met called up her friend and found out where this thing where it was.

It was the basement of some dorm. When we showed up there were literally two or three other people waiting in the audience. It was surreal. I felt severely confused. I first saw Dean from No Age hanging out in the bathroom. Later he came to set up his merchandise on the pool table on which Nick and I were sitting. We chatted for a good fifteen or twenty minutes about other bands and the music scene around Massachusetts. It was cool. He even gave me a free t-shirt and pin.

Other people showed up eventually. We sat through two other bands we had never heard of (Lemonade and The Beets) before No Age came on around 11:30. It was great just because of the intimacy of the setting. Everyone hung out right up next to the band. No Age was insanely loud and I got stuck right up next to their speakers while they were playing. I never really realized how noisy they were before. But there was plenty of feedback and strange random noises in their set.

We got home after one in the morning. I probably shouldn’t have even been driving that late at night but whatever. Needless to say, I slept in the next morning.

Here’s a pic of No Age setting up:



And this is their blog: http://noagela.blogspot.com/

PS – the original Beets (from the TV show Doug) are probably my all-time favorite fictional band. So I especially appreciated this reference at the concert. I think those original Beets deserve a mention on here though:



(This isn't actually from Doug or anything but it's still got the music at least.)