last night, my friend, anne marie, my housemate, denise, and i headed out to the 585 to see manchester orchestra (warning, myspace link - actually all band links in this post will be to myspace, so let’s just get that out of the way) play. i’ll admit to being more than excited about this, both because i have been a fan of manchester orchestra for several months now and also was looking forward to seeing the 585 since i hadn’t taken in a show there yet.

we got to the 585 and met up with metroblogger annie and her husband (you can thank annie for the pix of the 585 here; crack journalist that i am i of course forgot my camera.) the 585 was a pretty cool place. capacity of about 300, big open space, a loft for hanging out, good sized bar and a pretty nice stage for the space. they even had a swing, which the girls thought was super cool.
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