Italian restaurants which host live bands on weekends really shouldn’t leave the candles on the tables when those bands turn out to be boring.
A lot of folks who otherwise wouldn’t consider Consigliane’s Cuisine as a club destination went there anyway Friday night because Joe Knox of The Hard Knoxes was drumming. He’d suggested beforehand that this was a whole other side of him, and so it was—a laidback jazz standards revue. It would’ve been OK if the guitarist booked for the gig hadn’t bagged last-minute, and if the substitute knew anything besides Volume One of the American Song Fakebook. A couple of numbers had to be done twicer, to fill out the night,.
The food was yummy, however, and the house red was fruity. When we were done with those things, we started on the candles. Three tables were occupied with fans o’Joe, so after we’d held a wax-sculpture contest, there was a covert, under-the-table wax-pellet-pelting battle.
Tonight: Four Faultless Felons at the Bullfinch… College band The Poet and the Lunatics at Hamilton’s… Come to Think of It’s “The Turkey and the Turk” tour at D’ollaire’s…