Last Weekend: Sugar ‘n’ Vice at The Bubble

I’ve never heard so many people complain as I did yesterday, and I understand why. The heat is unbearable and unseasonal. What am I supposed to do with the apple cider in my fridge if I can’t heat it up and enjoy it in the brisk 70 degree weather that I feel should accompany mid-October? There, I complained, and now I’m done. Last Saturday, I popped into the Sugar ‘n’ Vice event that Robert Rutherford put together at IWAN’s The Bubble warehouse.

Sweet Bronco played, which pretty much meant that I was gonna be there (but not necessarily because he just told me that he’s most likely playing a show on the same night that Doug Stanhope is coming to Culture Room), but the flipping event started so late, as pretty much all S.Fla shows do, that his set was the only one that I got to see. I chatted up Robot Swan for a few moments, and she informed me that the SnV show the first gig that she’s played in almost a year, but I couldn’t stick around to see her set because I had to be out west for a work event at 10 p.m. She was looking sexy, though. See!

Sweet Bronco’s set was a typical one for the honey-dripping, neigh-saying steed of folk and pop — originals and covers from Leonard Cohen and other such iconic figures. As you might guess, he was lookin’ hawt!

While I’m talking about all of this stuff, let us not forget that RR is, in my observation, the only constant video documentarian of all that’s happening in South Florida music. You can find his videos of just about every band that plays regularly on the peninsula’s tip on his YouTube page, Gingerman309.

Speaking of Leonard Cohen and difficult decisions and scheduling conflicts, this weekend is going to be a tough one. Friday evening’s Rocktoberfest conflicts with The Bravery at Culture Room, a show for which SB and I already have tickets. We’ve already seen The Pretty Faces and Stonefox and The Freakin’ Hott about ten times this year (which isn’t enough), so we might be excused from attending the outdoor festival at Riverfront, but that doesn’t mean the rest of you are. And then, the legend himself, Leonard Cohen, will be at BankAtlantic on Saturday. I’m so juiced about this weekend that you can drink my excitement! Maybe we will try to pop by Riverfront for a wee bit at 5:30. We’ll see. We are only human!