If you all are lucky, you could get Whitmore and then the LA band Ollin, like we had last Nov 1 in LA. They tore the place down! Ollin mixes Latin, Irish, swing, and some other things. There was just an article about them in the LA Times. I hope the Pogues arrange them for all future LA shows...
Once I though Gogol Bordello would be perfect (actually they would be), but I think they are almost too big & raucous now. It would be like having co-headliners. I saw them both in LA within a week (Gogol was in that last week of October) - quite a pair of shows, both exhausting and exhilarating, but I've never been so sweaty after a show as after the Gogol show.
LA Times story:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la ... 7805.story
CULTURE MIX
Vibrant in a fading East L.A. scene
The Rodarte brothers wants to bring music back to the neighborhood.
By Agustin Gurza, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 12, 2008
It's Wednesday night on Cesar Chavez Avenue in Boyle Heights. At 8 p.m., the lights are still on at Jesse's Barber Shop, but the botanica is closed and so is the orthopedist whose sign says "Doctor de los Huesos" (bone doctor). The sidewalks are empty as a police cruiser glides down the street in the heart of this historic immigrant neighborhood.
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