Tuesday started with our second Norwex demo, I had two friends who couldn’t make it to the previous one, who wanted to see Amber’s great cleaners at work.
It wasn’t as long as the first one, and after a quick check of the work email for Amber, I took her to Chipotle for lunch. When I first went to visit her, she introduced me to Chipotle, but now she lives in a different town, she doesn’t have a Chipotle overly close. So when she’s in another city, it’s all over her radar!
We spent the afternoon shopping (and, for the most part coming up empty), Lane Bryant, Academy Sports, Ross, Marshalls and Nordstrom Rack (my first time), aside from some Turtles glasses and a pair of $160 reduced to $18, I came up pretty much empty.
That night, I took in my first ever gig at the Houston House of Blues, to see the one and only Matt Nathanson. My waiting came to an end at the end of last year when I FINALLY got to see him play live in Iowa (with Amber and Emily), blog post, here if you’re interested.
His support act, was Rachel Platten, described on her website as
”Beautiful, but not brazen. Passionate, but never peachy. Populist but definitely not prosaic. New York City singer-songwriter, pianist and beatboxer Rachel Platten is by no means your average headliner-in-the-making.”
To be honest, I’d never heard of her, but Lindsey had tweeted me to say she was fantastic and I decided to give her carte blanche (I normally hate supporting artists for some reason).
Amber doesn’t like warbly singers, Rachel is definitely warbly, but I think she’s just shy of the ‘too much’ line. Her beat-boxing adds a dimension of interesting to her performance, though I’d definitely have described her as having been peachy that night.
She’s most definitely ‘peppy’, enthusiastic and friendly – she hung around to sign autographs and let people take pictures with her (including us).
Her drummer was a header, he was the most enthusiastic and happy drummer I’ve ever seen – I also had my picture taken with him.
Matty Nay was fab, just like last time! His cover songs were, as usual, well known 80’s songs like Tainted Love and the set, though it was mostly from his latest two albums, killed!
The House of Blues as a venue is pretty good, just don’t go wanting a few drinks. $8 a piece will set you back a crap-ton if you’re not careful!
FYI – listening to her on spotify… and I’m trying to decide what I think still about her warbling… it’s not as bad on the album, but it’s still there!
I ordered it yesterday lol I’ll let you know what I think!! I thought about tweeting her the link to this blog, but I thought it may be rude to call someone a warbler!!