By Samir Mathur
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HARRY AND THE POTTERS to play the Orlando Public Library (101 E. Central Blvd), tonight (July 11th) at 6pm.
If you have eyes, you're probably aware that there's a new Harry Potter film coming out this Friday. For the 25% of you that haven't already stopped reading, the band Harry and the Potters will be playing at the big library downtown later this evening as part of their massive Rock the Library! Ride the Lightning! tour. It's free to get in, and the band is a lot of fun. I saw them once in Gainesville, and here's what I wrote at the time:
Two guys, both of them look like physics club secretaries, play songs about J.K. Rowling's juggernaut-books, and release balloons onto the crowd. They're kinda like They Might Be Giants, in that they're obviously big dorks but they play fun songs, many of which are under 90 seconds in length. The only difference is that these guys only sing about fictional wizards. If you're not a fan of those books/films, there's not much for you to see, but since I am...Check them out if you're a fan of the series. And if you're not, steer well clear of the library today. (Oh, and there's a big HP conference at Universal this weekend. Avoid that too)
They played songs like 'Voldemort Can't Stop the Rock', 'Cornelius Fudge is an Ass', 'Save Ginny Weasley', 'This Book Is So Awesome' and 'The Godfather'. They played for an hour, which is surprising given the brevity of some of the songs - like 'S.P.E.W.' which only features people shouting "Spew!" into the microphone. At one point, they tell a really convoluted story about Ghostbusters II and how it makes Voldemort sad. The songs are in a rough chronology with the books, which is weird. Lots of audience participation, jumping into the crowd, dancing... it wasn't a very big crowd, but they made it very fun. Best lyric of the night, in a song about Cho Chang: "I wish I didn't bring up Cedric Diggory / It's weird talking about your dead ex-boyfriend over coffee."
