Mon. July 23

"I don't like Mondays." Bob Geldof sang it so bittersweetly with the Boomtown Rats back in the day. Of course, his song wasn't sparked by the workingman's bane of existence but by the shooting spree of one teen named Brenda Spencer, who, when asked why she killed classmates answered, "I don't like Mondays." Geldof sort of immortalized the refrain. Which leads us to ... Mondays. Yes, in the entertainment end of the world, it's generally the down day (or night.) The reasoning is people go out and party and spend their dough on the weekends (or later in the week) and use Monday as a recovery day. Well, you can recover in a state of grace Monday July 23 at the Middle East Upstairs with Great Northern. The L.A. quartet is back in town, touring beind their debut CD, "Trading Twilight for Daylight." What we like: the balance of the cinematic widescreen sound and the haunting intimacy. There's a Delgados-like quality about these folks - and that's a big plus in our book. The Comas are the actual headliners and Falcon starts things around 9. Tickets: $9,

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