Tuesday night is the night for the hardcore partiers. This is why:
Obviously, everyone wants to live it up on the weekends, these are your nine-to-fivers, your people who only show their faces a couple days a week, they might come out for happy hour once in a while, but they're usually in and out early.
Mondays are for people recovering from the weekend.
Wednesday, well, Wednesday is hump day, sometimes we all need a little something to celebrate.
Thursdays are college nights, if you were saavy enough to schedule yourself with no classes, and in a town like Charleston, college night is no small matter.
So where does it leave the true blue few? Tuesday is the party night.
If you needed proof, you need only have been at the Charleston Pour House last night to listen to Soulive with special opening act by Nigel Hall to believe it. Even with $15 doors, the NYC based band Soulive played to a packed house Tuesday night, playing a soul, funk, blues routine.
Well known and with a strong following, Soulive proved once again that Charleston doesn't know the day of the week, and the crowd raised the temperature in the Pour House several degrees. Soulive did bring somewhat of a different dynamic to the Pour House as is often the case with bigger bands and wider recognition, while the regulars were still there, the big shows tend to bring a lot of new faces as well, and often expose new people to the Pour House, charging it with fresh blood.
With an opening solo act by Nigel Hall setting the mood as the crowd quickly began to swell, Soulive took the stage, without the typical and somewhat irritating lull between the opening act and headliner.
While a little more cover-heavy than most shows played at the Pour House, Soulive's covers were not your typical, 40-year-white-guys-at-the-Jersey-Shore type covers, but popular and well-known songs reimagined with a funky, jazzy, bluesy presentation, and making them unique in their own right.
With brisk sales, and packed to capacity, the Pour House was sold out of their famous $2 PBR tall-boys before midnight as more and more people joined the party, it looked more like a Saturday night downtown than a Tuesday on James Island.
Last night's performance proved not only that Charleston has got what it takes to party all night, every night, but the wide variety of music that audiences are treated to at the Pour House, from bands large and small, known by all, or first breaks.
http://charlestonpourhouse.com/
http://www.royalfamilyrecords.com/
http://www.myspace.com/soulive
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