Four.. yes four free shows and T.J. hot­dogs as well… where at you say? You should already know.

The Cas­bah on Ket­tner Blvd. San Diego

So what does Santa do after he is parad­ing around town emp­ty­ing glasses and bot­tles all the while deliv­er­ing gifts to every­one on the naughty list?

He goes to the Cas­bah to rock and and drink Whiskey Sours and Cas­bah Cof­fee. There is one thing San­tas like and that is “free”

Here is the calendar:

* Sun 20 Cas­bah Christ­mas Party — Lady Dot­tie and the Diamonds,The Style­tones
* Wed 23 The Jivewire Before Christ­mas — DJ’s Bart Black­stone, ATARI, El Torito and more
* Thu 24 Exile on Ket­tner Blvd
*Sun 27 The Local 94/9 Presents a FREE show w/ Chil­dren Of Nova,
Ital­ian Japan­ese, West­Fire and Trou­ble In The Wind

So another hot evening with Lady Dot­tie, some­thing good to do on X-mas eve and day, and Tim Pyles with free hot­dogs. This is a win for all Santa’s and every­one on the naughty list.

Due to my insanely eclec­tic sched­ule and my lack of an auto­mo­bile I ended up arriv­ing to the RIMAC arena just at the end of Man­ches­ter Orchestra’s set. Man­ches­ter was two of the five bands that per­formed. Pre­ceded by White Rab­bits (which I was dis­ap­pointed I missed) then fol­lowed by Phoenix, Vam­pire Week­end, and Spoon.

Phoenix Per­form­ing their song “Lasso” off of their album Wolf­gang Amadeus Phoenix

Fin­ish­ing up their set they played their hit sin­gle “1901” and the crowd went wild as did Thomas Mars, lead singer of Phoenix. He stopped the song towards the end and asked the venue to kill the house lights. He then dis­ap­peared and even­tu­ally resur­faced in the mid­dle of the audi­ence with micro­phone and cord in tow and fin­ished an encore of their very ener­getic song. Then he crowd surfed back to the stage. Check the video: “Phoenix crowd surfs”

Up next was Vam­pire Week­end who at first had some tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties. They played some of their already clas­sic songs from their self titled album includ­ing One (Blake’s Got A New Face) / Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa / I Stand Cor­rected. In between they played some of their new songs from the upcom­ing album “Con­tra” which their first sin­gle has a very fun and ener­getic video.

Vam­pire Week­end per­forms their song “Cousins” from the upcom­ing album Contra.