WEEK NINETEEN
Sports: The Saul Alvarez – James Kirkland boxing match on Saturday night only lasted three and a half minutes but they were as brutal and thrilling as boxing can possibly get. Alvarez, who knocked Kirkland out, lost to Floyd Mayweather, because he couldn’t get close to Floyd. That makes Floyd a smart boxer, a great boxer but a huge bore of a boxer. If you don’t want to watch big men beat each other up, maybe boxing ain’t for you. If you do, this is the fight you should have seen.
Live: In an act somewhere between hubris and stupidity, ingenue singer Natalie Prass cancelled her Bowery Ballroom gig an hour before she was meant to go on stage, leaving management to send a manager to unceremoniously give us the boot with “we don’t know why she is sick but you have to get out of here now”. Her explanation on Facebook (she had a sore throat) was fulsome but too late. Amateurs.
Recorded: Mumford And Sons, My Morning Jackets, Ciara, but what will you remember by the end of the year? Best Coast I hope.
Movies: “Ex-Machina” is a play hiding out as a sci fi movie but really a “Twilight Zone” episode.
Death: The great singer Errol Brown died at the age of 71 years of age. One of the 70s top disco guys with Hot Chocolate.
Tickets: $20 to see Gregg Allman at Jones Beach on a Saturday… well, why not?
This Is The Week That Is: The new Leonard Cohen album, Azealia Banks at Irving Plaza and Adventures In Bluesland at Sidewalk Cafe…. And will the Rangers make the next round? rock nyc? I am thinking on a Peter Holsapple post…