Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Maya Arulpragasam aka M.I.A. played Milwaukee’s Turner Hall Ballroom last night. MoB’s Ed Oliver was there there snapping photos for your visual recap. Do you prefer Arular or Kala? How was her stage presence? We care what you think, tell us what you liked and didn’t like about the show in the comments.
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May 13th, 2008 at 11:46 am
her performance was just spectacular, possibly the coolest, most chaotic concert i’ve been to, with crazy hip-hop dancers, audience members getting pulled up on stage en masse, blow horns being thrown into the crowd…it was, like, an excuse to experience a soulja boy concert without having to say you’re going to a soulja boy concert.
the security at turner hall last night, on the other hand, was pathetic. apparently they have a policy where if you try to take pictures, they confiscate your camera, but if some drunk guy way up to the front of the stage (he looked like dj skaggs with a hitler mustache) starts threatening and punching people and elbowing people in the throat, it’s a A-OK cuz he “got there first,” not considering that: A) there’s a giant mosh pit on the dance floor, where everyone’s getting constantly pushed around, so if you get shoved involuntarily up to the front of the stage where some lunatic’s staked his claim, it’s probably not by choice, and B) the crazy guy’s yelling physical threats in your ear at the same time that the security guard’s nodding “nope; the lunatic is right.”
sorry. i just had to vent, and it turned out sounding pretty whiny. the concert was a lot of fun…just physically painful at points.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
alap – That’s the second complaint I’ve read about security at Turner Hall (The Hold Steady show being the first). I just saw DeVotchKa there last week and didn’t experience any problems with security – though the types of shows we’re talking about are night and day different.
Glad to hear the show was good regardless.
May 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I agree with alap. M.I.A. put on an outstanding show, but the security was really poor. I was also disappointed that Holy Fuck never came on. That’s probably why there was such a long delay between the first lame openers and M.I.A. All in all, not entirely worth the $27.50.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
who is this ed oliver guy and where’d he come from? his shots are amazing.
May 14th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I liked the security because I walked in without paying via the artist entrance and the security guard at the door didn’t even bother to stand up. Their incompetence suits me just fine.
May 14th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I think i saw John Swan on stage! rockin with MIA, she was slam jamin!
May 16th, 2008 at 11:35 am
My friend was supposed to shoot the show for MKE, but got a call last minute that M.I.A.’s label didn’t want them to. Apparently, a lot of photographers got that call. That may be why they were confiscating cameras that night, ’cause I’ve been to a ton of shows there, and they weren’t doing shit about people taking pictures.