King of Stage

　　 New Orleans in summer is sultry, humid, noisy, sleepless all night, and revelry.

Beginning in early summer in June, the music festival with the strongest jazz atmosphere in the entire North American region slowly kicked off its grand prelude; to the peak of summer in July, the two-week food carnival is enough to make any glutton return home full of joy and reluctance; finally; By the end of summer in August, the theater festival will provide a stage for every soul who chasing art to perform to their heart's content.

　　 crazy. lively. carefree. Publicity. Wanton.

This city, which was revived after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, bears more than two hundred years of vicissitudes and heaviness, once again blooming with dazzling brilliance, and recreating its nickname "Great Jolly". Undoubtedly, this is The most distinctive and most romantic city on the North American continent has its own unique temperament and character soul.

　　 Take an old street car and drive slowly up St. Charles Street from the French Quarter up/to the city, like entering a time tunnel simultaneously, experiencing a short but bumpy history.

From the old and elegant French Quarter, to the fashionable and young American business district, to the Oak Avenue in Charleston, North Carolina, and the Victorian-style buildings that were popular at the beginning of the last century... these different languages, cultures, fashions and Beliefs are closely intertwined, and finally bred carnival, jazz, decadence, and evolved such a unique New Orleans style.

Today’s Bourbon Street in the middle of the city is full of sensuality, no distinction of race and youth, no distinction of gender and class. From this as a starting point, cross the purple dividing line of St. Ann Avenue to the north, and you will be able to see all kinds of people. Singing and dancing centered on "The Banished Cafe Lafitte", the night is thrilling with brilliant colors.

Going further north and crossing the Esplanada Avenue, you will be able to escape the hustle and bustle of the carnival and the hospitality of the music festival, enter the Marini district, a secret jazz center known only by locals, and pass the bookstores that carry the weight of history. , Clothing stores, tattoo shops, a turn, a row of brightly colored, different shapes of taverns lined up.

Young people with flamboyant personality and maverick standing on the side of the street swallowing the clouds, leaning on the mottled brick wall and watching the passing pedestrians coldly in the tact and chaotic jazz notes. The years seem to melt away in the midsummer night of New Orleans. In the warm wind, the rushing sound of the Mississippi River not far away is telling the forgotten and submerged legends of this city and this land.

　　 "Noon" bar is located here.

Strange graffiti painted on the dark black exterior wall, large and small, black-and-white color, painting signatures, etc., arranged in a disorderly manner, but built up a unique beauty that cannot be planned or copied over the years, recording the bar The history is not so long.

Looking at the entire North American continent, jazz has gradually declined. Even New York, where elegant jazz was flowing in the streets and alleys, cannot be avoided. New Orleans has become the last piece of jazz music, and the streets and alleys can be felt to walk through the fingers. , Jazz flowing in the hair.

However, jazz is not the only symbol of this city. The passionate and multicultural Clio people welcome all music lovers with open arms. The blood of this land is filled with golden music, day and night. The singing and dancing are enough to make every tourist linger.

This is the case in the "Noon" bar. In addition to jazz bands, performers on stage are rich and diverse, from rock to pop, from country to soul, from folk songs to bluegrass, all kinds of music melody are always floating, Monday to week Five, all year round, there are performances every night.

Tonight is Thursday, and it is a working day like yesterday, but the atmosphere still has a subtle change. The excitement and excitement of Friday has begun to surge in advance, such as the **** sunset still burning in the sky, bar Lu You can already see the guests coming in and out one after another.

　　 People who have just finished a busy day at work, use alcohol instead of dinner and a bar instead of a restaurant, and can’t wait to relax their muscles.

　　Usually, on weekdays, you may have to wait until after ten o’clock in the evening for the bar to become really lively; but today, you can feel the heat surging in the air before it’s time for dinner.

　　 Duncan-Turner (Duncan-Turner) is one of them.

After a boring day of work, the whole head almost became a mass of paste, leaving the office in a fleeing posture, but the dullness and irritability accumulated in the chest still cannot be vented, so bored and uncomfortable, so I gave up the idea of ​​going home, turned around and entered the bar, eager to cool down the blood with a glass of cold beer, and then went home for dinner, ending the trip on Thursday—

　　 After all, tomorrow is still a working day.

Sitting at the bar, turning around and looking back, the bar is bustling with thirty and forty guests. Although it is far from full and overcrowded, it occupies at most one-third of the space; but one Zhang's tired face entered his eyes, UU reading www.uukanshu. com is so familiar, even if they are all strangers, they can find the same frequency resonance in each other at this time.

　　 Duncan let out a long sigh, drank a big sip of beer again, all his limbs relaxed, and could not help making a happy voice, "Ah..."

　　 looked forward to the stage ahead, looking forward to the upcoming performance, drinking beer and listening to music, completely emptying his mind, this is the correct way to open get off work, but I don’t know what performance will be tonight?

At the same time, in the backstage corridor, Ollie was looking at the situation in the bar, then turned happily into the lounge, and couldn’t wait to share the good news with his teammates. “Tonight there are more guests than last night. Almost half seated!"

　　 For the One Day King Band, this is indeed a good thing.

Although the bar owner Sam agreed to the band’s return performance tonight, the problem is that the bar’s daily performance list is full. There is no need for Sam to change the performance list for the King of One Day—the band has not yet been so big. Ability, so in the end the band was ranked in the first stage, basically equivalent to the position of the warm-up band.

　　 Generally speaking, the audience and quality of the warm-up show are not satisfactory. It is not unusual to have just two or three kittens.

　　 But tonight, the band had good luck. The audience was even more than the performance at 11 o'clock last night.

　　 Apart from other off-site factors, the performance still needs the support of the audience, because the interaction between the performance and the audience is the essence of the stage performance. Otherwise, what is the meaning of the empty performance?

　　 Especially for Ronan, this is even more so, his heart beating a bit hard.