{"id":4183,"date":"2013-08-12T21:29:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T04:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T00:12:37","slug":"more-penthouse-concert-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=4183","title":{"rendered":"More Penthouse Concert wins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay.. don&#8217;t hate me but last June I won another contest win from 98.7 Rockaholics.\u00a0 But to be honest I think they have less people participating in the program! hahaha\u00a0\u00a0 They have a new Program Manager and now the win site is called TheList&#8230;. oooooooo.\u00a0 *eye roll*\u00a0 And they&#8217;ve given the station a name.\u00a0 It&#8217;s now Alt987. bahahaha<\/p>\n<p>But this time I won the June package of Penthouse performances.\u00a0 And since I really enjoy those, I was very happy to get this email!\u00a0 Three nights of two free drinks and free food with four songs played by a band (that I may have or may not have heard of!) is my idea of a wonderful evening out.<\/p>\n<p>The first night was a comedy night and it was pretty damn dreadful.\u00a0 The MC was a comic and standing through his humor between acts wasn&#8217;t actually THAT bad&#8230; it just felt that bad.\u00a0 The night was cold.\u00a0 The humor wasn&#8217;t thrilling.\u00a0 The last act was a woman so bad that she actually got heckled in our measly crowd of 20 and didn&#8217;t seem very capable of wrapping it up.\u00a0 So I turned to my friend and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m done&#8230; you done?\u00a0 Let&#8217;s bail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4206\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4206\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4206\" alt=\"I'm not THAT much taller, I'm wearing heels!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/022.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/022.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/022-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/022-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m not THAT much taller, I&#8217;m wearing heels!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I took my friend Patty to the comedy act, since she&#8217;d never been to one and with two others coming up after I knew I could take Sex God for those.\u00a0 She was suitably thrilled since I&#8217;d turned her onto the radio station recently.\u00a0 She was agog to see one of the DJ&#8217;s and loved getting a little dressed up to go to Hollywood.\u00a0 And while I&#8217;d told her there would be free pizza, they changed it up and had free soft tacos instead.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4208\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Family-of-the-Year.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4208\" class=\" wp-image-4208 \" alt=\"See us under the red arrow lol\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Family-of-the-Year.jpg\" width=\"434\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Family-of-the-Year.jpg 568w, http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Family-of-the-Year-150x118.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Family-of-the-Year-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">See us under the red arrow lol<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Only a few days later Sex God and I went to see a band called Family of the Year.\u00a0 And I was just blown away by how much I enjoyed them.\u00a0 The lead singer is VERY rough around the edges in an completely starving artsy way.\u00a0 But the drummer&#8230; oh he is just a delicious bundle of I-wanna!\u00a0 Energy, humor and I could watch him sing and drum all day.\u00a0 Gentlemen if you look good in a tank top, its the only shirt you should wear!\u00a0 Yum. \u00a0 And they broke into a song I&#8217;d been hearing on 98.7 and I realized this band wrote beautiful music.\u00a0 I can only hope they play at Coachella.\u00a0 I&#8217;m in love with their song Hero&#8230; I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Family-of-Year.mov\">Family of Year<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4209\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/msmr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4209\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4209\" alt=\"The Synth guy \" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/msmr-300x253.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/msmr-300x253.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/msmr-150x126.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/msmr.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Synth guy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then the next event (again, barely a few days later! lol) was a duo called Ms Mr, pronounced Mizz Mister.\u00a0\u00a0 They had an interesting back story of meeting in a dance\/music school and connecting.\u00a0 They also had several other musicians playing with them so I was initially confused because the website lists them as a duo but here were more than two people playing.\u00a0 Sex God was a bit perturbed about the fact that the amazing synth player (which is what I&#8217;ll call the electronic contraption he got music out of which looked like a combo of a harp, keyboard, synthesizer) sat down like he wasn&#8217;t a part of them, in between sets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_10612.mov\">Mz Mr&#8230;. sorry its upside down :\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mister was obviously gay and I enjoyed watching the lovely camaraderie between him and the Mizz of the duo.\u00a0 And she was amazing on a personal level.\u00a0 She reminded me very much of a younger, more musically talented me.\u00a0 She had a similar smirk and playfulness.\u00a0 With a wonderful style and I wish I could emulate the way she danced.\u00a0 I wanted to soooo sit down and know her.\u00a0 Her voice sounded eerily like Natalie Merchant and her lyrics are very easy to enjoy.\u00a0 They are also a new band that 98.7 has been showcasing lately and I highly encourage downloading a song or two from their set.\u00a0 Hurricane or Fantasy are great tunes.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to wait 60 days before I might win again \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay.. don&#8217;t hate me but last June I won another contest win from 98.7 Rockaholics.\u00a0 But to be honest I think they have less people participating in the program! hahaha\u00a0\u00a0 They have a new Program Manager and now the win &hellip; 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