Man Before Mars @ Hailey's

After work Amy and I headed up to Denton to catch Man Before Mars gigging at Hailey's. Man Before Mars is a local band and Rodney just happens to be the drummer so that was our main impetus for going to the show. Their first CD, titled the Beta EP and featuring 6 songs, should be coming out soon. It was supposed to be ready for the show tonight but when you are doing everything yourself things happen. Such is the indie life. A small throng took in the show. It's hard to tell how "good" the show was without CD recordings to place the performed songs in context but it had a good vibe to it.

Before the show, Amy and I stopped at Tomato's, a hole-in-the-wall pizza/Itlaian joint on the edge of the UNT campus. It's in what I call Campustown, because that's what we called the smilar area back at the U of I, though I'm pretty sure that every school has their own term for it (ie The Drag in Austin). Anyway, it was a pretty cool place to eat with good pizza and that old school pizza joint atmosphere, complete with an original (non-20th Anniversary Edition) upright Galaga aracde machine. It it wasn't for the very faded original monitor, I would have been tempted to blast some bees.