Lost Weekend Records

Lost Weekend Records owner Kyle Siegrist has been having birthday parties for the store since it’s third year of existence. The idea for having an anniversary concert started when Skully’s asked Kyle if he was interested in putting on a show to celebrate Lost Weekend Records third birthday. The shows have always had a mix of bands and have included many Columbus legends including Willie Phoenix, Scrawl, Times New Viking, Watershed, and Great Plains.

“Every year we do the anniversary, we want to celebrate not only the store’s anniversary but the local music scene,” Kyle says. The anniversary shows aim to have an eclectic lineup of bands that would not normally be on the same bill. There’s always a mix of new and old and often a reunion set.

Lost Weekend Records recently put on it’s 19th anniversary show to celebrate 22 years of the record store. The shows have been at many different venues – Skully’s, Ruby Tuesdays, Ace of Cups and, for the last years, Natalie’s. When the shows were at Ace of Cups, they’d span two night, however, as Natalie’s has two stages, this was a one-night celebration with music taking place on those two stages.

The show started with a fun Happy Hour featuring Big and Little Brother (Zach Whitney and Ian Hummell) playing country favorites and Mark Sims playing originals. The evening continued with one stage featuring smaller, solo acts such as Colin Gawel (Watershed) and Joe Peppercorn and Friends. The stage was in the seated bar/restaurant side of Natalie’s and was warm and welcoming throughout the night.

Around the corner and through the heavy doors that kept the sound leaking from stage to stage was the Music Hall stage and it was full on rock. This stage started with Big Fat Head. One of the many highlights was a blistering Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments reunion with Mickey Marie Mocnik (Nervosas/The Missed) on guitar taking the place of the late Bob Petric. The night cap was Columbus favorite Nick Tolford and Company. The concert celebrated the local music scene and Lost Weekend Records which has been a hub of the local music scene since it opened.

I was lucky enough to be able to snap a few photos of the show.