NearFest Newbie Questions - please help

[cumquott]

I'm lucky enough to be able to go to the venue box office (at 5am or something) and get in line. If you can swing the trip, that's always worked reasonably well for us. I might show up the night before and get bad karma from the drunken college children again. What a hoot (it must've been "short black skirt night"). But watch out for Lehigh's Drunk-Swat Track-Suit At-the-Ready Stealth Pistol-Whip team. I thought they were gonna take us to a padded FBI cell for interrogation.

Tix could be interesting this year.

[dangerboy]

There's also the after show party at the hotel on all three nights. That's usually pretty fun. The last time Keneally played NF, he also played in the hotel ballroom. And, he's gonna be there again for 2012. The guy is a walking jukebox.

Coincidentally, I met Bryan Bellar (Mike's bassist) at a brewpub Friday night. Turns out we were both going to the Belew/Levin show a couple of blocks away.