The Pattern/Har Mar Superstar/The Agenda!

live in San Francisco (2002)

Nick

I got to the show right when the show was supposed to start and about 50
minutes later they finally opened the doors to the stage part of the club.
Cafe du Nord has a bar/restaurant area and then there's another area where
the stage is at. Anyways, the show finally starts up at about 10pm or so.

The Agenda opened up, they're from Athens, Georgia and on Kindercore Records.
All of the members except the singer wore black clothes with armbands on.
They did a pretty good job getting everyone into them. The singer jumped
around on the bass drum and came out in to the crowd to get everyone going.
They've been described at party punk to dance to, and I'd definitely agree
with that, catchy lyrics and a fun time from them.

Up next was the almighty Har Mar Superstar. The last time I saw him was
when he was on tour with Atom and His Package in Davenport, Iowa. Har Mar
came out with a red robe on and got the crowd dancing. He's added a couple
more dance moves to his arsenal and he took off his robe and under neath he
had a white suit with spraypaint on his ass that said HAR MAR, imagine each
word on each cheek. Some of the songs from his set were "Brand New Day",
"Cry 4 Help", "EZ Pass", "No Chorus", and the single that he said is on the
new album "Power Lunch". He also did a cover song by Stevie Wonder called
"Sir Duke" and it sounded fantastic. All the while, after each song he would
take off a piece of clothing and by his final song he got down to his Paul
Frank underwear, he said that he gets it for free. Once he got down to the
underwear, he walked out in to the crowd and came back with a couple dollar
bills in the underwear. He finished off his set and told everyone to buy his
mother fuckin record like they should.

The local boys were up last, The Pattern from right across the bay in
Oakland, CA. This was their 200th show and the last night of their tour with
Har Mar Superstar and were over at a wedding earlier that day. These guys
have been getting quite the buzz around here from being on the major radio
station Live 105 to playing free in store show in Berkeley. This band is
straight up rock and roll and had the stage presence to back up their sound.
The singer, Chris who is part owner of Lookout Records had some great moves,
tossing around the mic stand and I'm sure he made the ladies in aww of him.
Some of the songs on their set were "She's a Libra", "Selling Submarines",
"Mary's Sister", and their radio hit "Fragile Awareness". During the set the
singer said that most big cities, the crowds don't participate very much but
tonight the crowd was great. During pretty much most of their set a lot of
the people were dancing and having a great time. They finished their set and
got a great ovation.