The Top 11 from the latest season of "American Idol" aren't the only "Idol" grads to hit a Charlotte stage this week. Before the "AI Live" tour stops at Time Warner Cable Arena Thursday, Season 6 finalist Sanjaya Malakar plays The Milestone Tuesday, July 26.
The small, graffiti-ed Milestone is a long way from Hollywood's "AI" stage, but the storied West Charlotte haunt is the kind of venue that sees it all - a musically open-minded place where you're as likely to see a phlegm spewing punk band as you are a foot stomping country act or a soulful funk combo. The common thread is usually that most of these bands are underground or on-the-cusp.
In the case of Malakar (pictured above), he's already performed for millions on television and toured with his season's "AI Live" Tour. Even if you remember nothing of his voice, you're likely aware of his name, his screen grabbing ever changing hairdos, or his ability to annoy and confound Simon Cowell. The seventh place finisher who was only 16 when he auditioned for the Fox reality series, is once again under the radar . He's touring small clubs like other indie artists. He plays the Milestone with Oregon-based indie-pop artists Brave Chandeliers and Chris Blair. Tickets are $7 to $9. Doors are at 8 p.m.
and so evaporates all the alternative cred and punk history..............
ReplyDeleteWOW.....The Milestone is officially selling out! Thanks for ruining all my memories of the place. Now we can bulldoze it!
ReplyDeleteGood Lord Milestone, what are you thinking? Be sure to have plenty of cotton candy and soda available. This is an 18 and under show...right?
ReplyDeleteSomewhere a Local legend from Antiseen,Sugarsmack Seducer or Buzzoven just said " what the Bleep just happened here".
ReplyDeleteI performed at the Milestone before...glad it wasnt on the same bill as this clown!
ReplyDeleteNot surprising. The Milestone has had plenty of irrelevant acts before. re: a previous posting... Sugarsmack, a "legend?" No different than this "american idol dude" , they found a niche and capitalized (and still continue) on what ever seems to be the alterna-flavor of the year.
ReplyDeleteNeil 'MF" Harper would not have allowed this! This tool has no right to share the same stage as those who have passed thru those doors. Henry Rollins (LEGEND) should show up to beat his ass.
ReplyDeleteI think its great that Sanjya is doing his thing. Good Luck!!
ReplyDeleteIf there is one venue in NC that has never discriminated against any type of performance, it's the Milestone. It has always welcomed all types of performers, however mainstream or completely underground they may be. It is one of the reasons that it is "legendary." Thankfully those in charge do not share the seemingly elitist and snobbish attitude of the negative posters here.
ReplyDeleteIt's not that we are elitist, Sanjaya is a joke. Should be a double Bill with William Hung!
ReplyDeleteFirst we lure in all the pasty white suburbanites we can from South Charlotte with an American Idol contestant. Once the last SUV drops off the last of ‘em, I say we bar the door and eat them.
ReplyDeletewho cares about the milestone....that place last meant something in the 90s
ReplyDeleteThis ---> "If there is one venue in NC that has never discriminated against any type of performance, it's the Milestone. It has always welcomed all types of performers, however mainstream or completely underground they may be. It is one of the reasons that it is "legendary." Thankfully those in charge do not share the seemingly elitist and snobbish attitude of the negative posters here."
ReplyDeleteDoes it make all of you feel better about yourselves to be so nasty about someone you know nothing about? Sanjaya is a person and an artist who is doing what he loves. Let him do his thing. And maybe next time, think about the fact that the way you see someone portrayed on a Television show may not really be who that person is.
ReplyDeleteWhy is there so much hate in Charlotte, especially in the Observer.
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