HoneyHoney at the V Lounge
I made the trek up to Alpine to check out honeyhoney at the V Lounge in the Viejas casino. I had no idea what to expect as far as the layout so I was surprised when I got there that the lounge was a section in the casino that has a bunch of luxe couches and a small stage. Odd as that may be, it totally worked. We sat in the back of the lounge at the bar (duh, always at the bar) which still gave us a pretty good view. I’m not sure what the capacity was, I’m thinking no more than 75, but I could be wrong because I am not great at crowd estimating. As far as the crowd was concerned, it was comprised of Radio Sophie listeners - so a lot of women in the 36-49 age bracket with either their significant other or a chick friend.
So I had seen honeyhoney in their full band incarnation, but this time, they were unplugged with just Suzanne Santo on vocals (and banjo and violin) and Ben Jaffe on guitar and a small drum, along with their touring bass player (whose name I have forgotten though Suzanne introduced her a few times.) They started off with “Give Yourself to Me” from their EP Loose Boots and then went straight into “Little Toy Guns” which is the radio single. Everyone knew “Little Toy Guns” so that was a good way to get the crowd’s attention before heading into three songs of new material. Then they did “Thursday Night” which is kinda a slower, sexy song with lyrics like since it’s just us two tonight, I think that we should screw tonight. Suzanne almost seemed embarassed to say the f word when she was singing it - very endearing. Between songs, Suzanne and Ben were talking up a storm - Ben was really excited about getting to use a cordless mic. Ben introduced the next song as a Smashing Pumpkins cover and I mentally ran through some Pumpkins songs that have violin to guess what they would be doing. I was thinking “Tonight Tonight” but instead they did an awesome version of “1979”. The rest of the set was new songs (with the exception of “David” ) - the standout of those was “Not For Long”. After the set, they talked to a bunch of the crowd and happily posed for photos and what not. A good show and definitely worth the trek up to Alpine.
If you want to get an idea of what they sound like live, check out their performance in-studio at Radio Sophie here.
honeyhoney - Not For Long
