Neil Shah - Pianist/Vocalist/Composer

Ticket disaster. Luckily got one. Eric and I had Thai beforehand. Black keys minus me. Yorke white polo blue jeans. Old stuff new stuff. Kid A the bends, fade out again. I heard June 13, 2006.

This is a sort of belated post about a show I saw on May 1st. It was one of my favorite persons/groups, named Aqualung–aka Matt Hales. Matt hails from the UK and brings a Coldplay-esque vibe to the arrangements of his beautiful songs. He usually plays the piano, often accompanied by just his brother , […]

I started running pretty regularly last summer. And although I’ve taken a bit of a break over the winter (and picked up snowboarding instead), I’m ready to get back to my regular jogs. So I’m proud to be participating in a run to help raise money to fight women’s cancer. It’s being presented by the […]

Death Cab for Cutie and Franz Ferdinand are currently touring together and I caught them this past Friday night at the Hammerstein Ballroom.
The two band have been taking turns closing the show and Franz Ferdinand closed this show. Franz has a ton of energy live—every song driven by a four-to-floor dance beat. They […]

I saw Coldplay perform at Nassau Coliseum last night. It was a great show—exactly the same show I saw at Madison Square Garden 6 months ago—and the latter fact left me feeling a little empty. Even the parts of the tunes that sounded like they were improvised or embellished on the spot turned out to […]