South Street Seaport
New York City
Words & Photos by Philip Watts

FACTS ABOUT FREE SOUTH STREET SEAPORT SHOWS:
- Go. They’re always good. It’s outside. Outside is awesome. Unless it rains. It didn’t rain.

- Sometimes the new hyped up next best thing, is actually surprisingly worthy of all the praise.
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, has a long name for referencing in discussion about being actually really very good. Gets away with it by being actually really very good.

- You will always feel inadequate when armed with a couple of point and shoots and a wristband, next to the 3 other people with long lenses and LCD screens.

- It’s now completely okay to reference the “blog-o-sphere” on stage.

- Don’t shoot most of your photos with a new camera you received in the mail that morning, without running a test film first. Don’t use expired film for night shows, outside with weird lighting.

- Awkwardly dance like Ian Curtis while taking photos. It ruins the photo, but you have a much better time.

- Cass McCombs will be a small quiet man. Which is what you’d expect. He will however have one of the most original and captivating voices, you’ve heard in quite some time. Leather Vests. Tennis Shoes.

- Beg for Mr. McCombs not to listen to the guy that just told him it’s his last song and he needs to get off the stage. Fuck the man. Etcetera.

- Be bummed out it got cut short, and wonder off to eat over priced Japanese food you don’t even really want. Wish you had gotten popcorn and cotton candy from the show instead. Popcorn! And Cotton Candy! At a show! That was outside! That was good! Amazing that.