Contest: Samantha Crain + Old Lights Ticket Giveaway and Prize Bonanza
January 19, 2012
[show_avatar email=jess@iwenttoashow.com align=left avatar_size=62] I’m excited that IWTAS gets to host Samantha Crain with Old Lights this Wednesday at Off Broadway. Sam’s the type of musician whose songs ease into my head when I’m doing the dishes or getting ready for work. Her latest album, You (Understood), feels well worn, but it’s not flimsy. I want to sit around with my friends and drink beer and smoke cigarettes and listen to it (and I have). Incidentally, that feeling of relaxed abandon is what a Samantha Crain show in St. Louis feels like, especially since one of Sam’s old bandmates is now an established working musician in her own right and, as a member of Old Lights, is opening the show that evening. I have a feeling it’s going to be a special night; I hope that it’s really cold and snowing and that Steve turns on the heater outside. I hope we all drink whiskey to stay warm, and put our phones in our pockets and look at the stage. I hope that many of you reading this will be there with us.
Photo: www.facebook.com/Samanthacrainmusic
To that end, IWTAS and Off Broadway is giving away a pair of tickets to the show. Here are a few ways you can win:
1) Track down your favorite Samantha Crain OR Old Lights lyric, and leave it in the comment section below. Don’t be afraid to move us, okay?
2) Track down your favorite Samantha Crain OR Old Lights lyric, and leave it as a comment on the Facebook page post for this contest. Again, MOVE. US. WITH. WORDS.
3) Tweet this: “I entered to win tickets from @iwtas to Samantha Crain in #STL: http://iwtas.me/AB0Szw”
You could win this album. It could be yours.
Bonus Treats:
Don’t despair if you aren’t chosen as the ticket winner. We’ll ALSO be giving away 3 other prizes to 3 IWTAS readers just for coming to the show on the 25th. The following is up for grabs:
1) “Like Strangers” (2011) by Old Lights on either CD or vinyl (winner’s choice).
2) An Off Broadway t-shirt.
3) An IWTAS logo t-shirt.
Entry deadline is Monday, the 23rd at noon. Winners will be notified via email (or Facebook message, #whathaveyou) soon thereafter.
Now isn’t this all very exciting? Let’s go have some fun together.
Comments (3)
This is the impossible contest…too many amazing lyrics. I think I post different ones on each SM page :-)
so we’ll sit side by side and we’ll stare
hating that we share the same air
there’s no room for speaking
and nothing will ever be said
My friends call me a One Track Pony – chiefly because I have an OCD behavior when it comes to playing songsover and over and over again. And over. Again.
It gives me great pleasure to welcome Old Lights into the elite one-track playbacks of yours truly, The One Track Pony.
Not too long ago, that I listened to this sound that Dave Beeman and Co of Old Lights threw down, literally for 3 straight days …in the produce aisle at Schnucks, on the treadmill at the gym, brushing my teeth, dodging jaywalkers in my car on Kingshighway, conference calls. Sometimes late at night I couldn’t sleep, so I’d take a walk, and play this track repeatedly, trying to make my stride as epic as the droning drippy rhythms of Beeman’s voice.
Well, that wasn’t even enough. I needed to share it, I mean, other people had to know how great this song was. So I burned a copy for Beth, Jamie D, and even my sister Alicia who lives in Paris, a city lacking in Midwestern representation. Looking forward to the show, nevertheless.
“LOUD SONG”
by OLD LIGHTS
I’m just gonna have to tell you like it is
I aint ever gonna sleep alone again
I don’t wanna keep missin’ you
keep missin’ you
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