The Wong Way

Back in July 2006, I bought my first digital SLR camera. The very next day, I brought it with me to Siren Festival in Coney Island. Although the shots from that concert didn't turn out too hot - too far away, too much of a novice with the camera - I wasn't deterred from future attempts at concert shooting. Ultimately, I decided to start a musicblog, titled The Wong Way, featuring photos I took from the concerts I went to. It ran regularly from July 2006 to December 2006 and while I'd like to start it back up some day, I prefer to just enjoy concerts from the sidelines. But who knows what the future will bring, right?

Live Music 2006

Overview

The shows I went to in 2006, in reverse chronological order:

  • 22.11.2006 – The Hold Steady, The Constantines, Demander @ Warsaw
  • 21.11.2006 – Sia, The Bird and The Bee, Greg Laswell @ Bowery Ballroom
  • 07.11.2006 – Pretty Girls Make Graves, Moonrats, Night Canopy @ Northsix
  • 04.11.2006 – White Whale, Annuals, Elvis Perkins, Tokyo Police Club, The Big Sleep, Silversun Pickups @ CMJ Music Marathon, The Annex
  • 03.11.2006 – The Mugs, Lo Fi Fnk, ¡Forward, Russia!, The Changes, Chin Up Chin Up, Cadence Weapon,Oxford Collapse, The Thermals @ CMJ Music Marathon, Fontana’s
  • 02.11.2006 – CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy), The Elected, Oxford Collapse, Loney, Dear @ CMJ Music Marathon, Bowery Ballroom
  • 02.11.2006 – Snowden @ CMJ Music Marathon, The White Rabbit
  • 02.11.2006 – ¡Forward, Russia! @ CMJ Music Marathon, KEXP Live in NYC, Gigantic Studios
  • 01.11.2006 – Jaymay, Ferraby Lionheart @ CMJ Music Marathon, Pianos
  • 31.10.2006 – The Cardigans, The Format, Matt Nathanson, Dan Keyes @ CMJ Music Marathon, Knitting Factory
  • 27.10.2006 – Cold War Kids, Foreign Born, The Sky Drops @ Union Hall
  • 23.10.2006 – The Kooks, Small Sins @ Bowery Ballroom
  • 22.10.2006 – Beans, Jeffrey Lewis, Mahogany @ Brooklyn Peace Fair, Long Island University
  • 19.10.2006 – Art Brut, The Spinto Band, Annuals @ Irving Plaza
  • 18.10.2006 – Art Brut, The Spinto Band, Tokyo Police Club @ Warsaw
  • 16.10.2006 – Vienna Teng @ The Living Room
  • 15.10.2006 – Au Revoir Simone @ Sound Fix
  • 13.10.2006 – Portastatic, Jennifer O’Connor, Modern Skirts @ Mercury Lounge
  • 05.10.2006 – M. Ward, The Feverfew, The Shivers @ New York University
  • 01.10.2006 – The Hold Steady, Sean Na Na, Federale @ Irving Plaza
  • 30.09.2006 – CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy) @ NEMO Music Festival, Avalon (Boston, MA)
  • 29.09.2006 – Fancey, Faces on Film @ NEMO Music Festival, Bill’s Bar (Boston, MA)
  • 29.09.2006 – Toby Lightman, Rob Blackledge @ NEMO Music Festival, Axis (Boston, MA)
  • 29.09.2006 – Grace Kelly, Tecoma, Ryan Fitzsimmons @ NEMO Music Festival, Boston Center for the Arts (Boston, MA)
  • 28.09.2006 – Yo La Tengo, Why? @ NEMO Music Festival, Avalon (Boston, MA)
  • 26.09.2006 – Gnarls Barkley @ Nokia Theatre
  • 24.09.2006 – New York Dolls, Joe Hurley & Rogues March, Bill McGarvey, Josh Dion Band, Gene D. Plumber @ Hoboken Art & Music Festival (Hoboken, NJ)
  • 22.09.2006 – The Bluebeats @ Magnetic Field
  • 19.09.2006 – Emily Haines @ Joe’s Pub
  • 17.09.2006 – The Fleshtones, Reigning Sound, The Dansettes, The Fabulous Soul Shakers, The Coydogs,Boss Tweed @ The Third Annual Atlantic Antic Rock’N’Soul Fest, Magnetic Field
  • 16.09.2006 – White Magic, Love as Laughter, Home, Professor Murder, The End of the World @ East River Music Project, East River Amphitheater
  • 14.09.2006 – Pete Yorn @ Virgin Megastore Union Square
  • 12.09.2006 – The Rapture @ Apple Store SoHo
  • 10.09.2006 – Cat Power & Memphis Rhythm Band @ Irving Plaza
  • 08.09.2006 – Serena Maneesh, Asobi Seksu, Evangelicals @ Bowery Ballroom
  • 05.09.2006 – The Presets @ Virgin Megastore Union Square
  • 03.09.2006 – Spank Rock, Gang Gang Dance, Shy Child, Nuclear Family @ Pool Parties, McCarren Park Pool
  • 02.09.2006 – The Hold Steady, The Spinto Band @ Concert on the Steps, Columbia University
  • 01.09.2006 – The Spinto Band, Dirty on Purpose, Uncle John and Whitelock, The Black Hollies @ River to River Festival, South Street Seaport, Pier 17
  • 31.08.2006 – Asobi Seksu, Say Hi To Your Mom, Cassettes Won’t Listen @ Maxwell’s (Hoboken, NJ)
  • 28.08.2006 – Gin Blossoms @ Apple Store SoHo
  • 26.08.2006 – Asobi Seksu @ Sound Fix
  • 24.08.2006 – Corinne Bailey Rae @ J&R MusicFest, City Hall Park
  • 21.08.2006 – Oppenheimer, Lifestyle, Bad Flirt, Blazer @ Pianos
  • 20.08.2006 – Archie Bell & Mighty Hannibal backed by The Dansettes, The Fabulous Soul Shakers @ Pool Parties, McCarren Park Pool
  • 15.08.2006 – Leigh Nash @ Housing Works Used Book Cafe
  • 13.08.2006 – Deerhoof, Beirut, Apollo Sunshine, The Harlem Shakes @ Pool Parties, McCarren Park Pool
  • 12.08.2006 – The Tom Kitt Band @ Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, Flushing Meadows Park
  • 07.08.2006 – Silversun Pickups, Daylight’s for the Birds @ Union Hall
  • 04.08.2006 – Hot Chip, Oppenheimer @ River to River Festival, South Street Seaport, Pier 17
  • 03.08.2006 – The New Pornographers, Calexico, The Frames @ Central Park Summerstage, Rumsey Playfield
  • 30.07.2006 – Of Montreal, Enon, Irving, Asobi Seksu @ Pool Parties, McCarren Park Pool
  • 29.07.2006 – Bloc Party, Secret Machines, Mew @ McCarren Park Pool
  • 28.07.2006 – Sound Team, Cold War Kids, Midlake @ Mercury Lounge
  • 28.07.2006 – Elvis Perkins, Nicolai Dunger, Benjy Ferree @ River to River Festival, South Street Seaport, Pier 17
  • 27.07.2006 – The Hold Steady @ River to River Festival, Castle Clinton
  • 22.07.2006 – Jens Lekman, Frida Hyvonen, Tom Thumb & The Latter Day Saints, Indian Style @ TT The Bear’s Place (Cambridge, MA)
  • 21.07.2006 – Brett Rosenberg Problem, Eli “Paperboy” Reed, Yoni Gordon, Monique Ortiz @ The Middle East (Cambridge, MA)
  • 19.07.2006 – I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, The Big Sleep, Asobi Seksu @ Bowery Ballroom
  • 15.07.2006 – Stars, Art Brut @ Siren Festival, Coney Island
  • 09.07.2006 – Yura Yura Teikoku, Endless Boogie, Invisible Conga People @ Knitting Factory
  • 09.07.2006 – Les Savy Fav, Beans with Holy Fuck, Dragons of Zynth, Proton Proton @ Pool Parties, McCarren Park Pool
  • 06.07.2006 – Broken Social Scene, The Hidden Cameras @ Celebrate Brooklyn!, Prospect Park
  • 22.06.2006 – Asobi Seksu @ Mercury Lounge
  • 14.06.2006 – Arctic Monkeys, We Are Scientists @ Roseland
  • 13.06.2006 – The Boy Least Likely To @ Knitting Factory
  • 10.06.2006 – Cat Power & Memphis Rhythm Band @ Town Hall
  • 04.06.2006 – Tapes n’ Tapes, Figurines, Cold War Kids @ Bowery Ballroom
  • 12.05.2006 – Elvis Costello and the Brooklyn Philharmonic @ Brooklyn Academy of Music
  • 29.04.2006 – New Humans, Momus, Japanther, Apeshit @ Whitney Museum
  • 27.04.2006 – Secret Machines @ Virgin Megastore Union Square
  • 17.04.2006 – Sia @ Bowery Ballroom
  • 07.04.2006 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blood on the Wall @ Orpheum Theatre (Boston, MA)
  • 02.04.2006 – Gorillaz @ Apollo Theater
  • 03.03.2006 – Belle & Sebastian, The New Pornographers @ Nokia Theatre
  • 26.01.2006 – Colin Hay, The Kin @ Irving Plaza