Fair warning: Limited on R/K deets because it was impossible to see them without staring conspicuously and y'know, totally ignoring the show (although I was inadvertently close to them both individually).

Got there around 10:30. Room 5 is above Amalfi so you walk in and if you veer right, you go into the restaurant and if you go straight up the stairs, there's a little landing, turn right, few more stairs and then the dude behind the table with the clipboard. It's very cramped at the top of the stairs because ppl stand against the wall when there are no seats. It's also well lit, dim but very visible. I went up and friend was right at the top of the stairs and so I said hi and then went and got a glass of wine at the bar and went back to them. The chick before Old Gold was still performing.

We sort of smooshed along the wall and I became aware of more people arriving including a really fucking tall guy who had his back pressed up against my shoulder/arm trying to make room for the other people in his party to come in. I see out of my peripheral vision that tall guy has MTV jacket sleeves and a grey hood up so I look up (have to crane my head for real- I'm 5'2") and realize it's Rob. Really fucking tall guy standing on top of me like we're on public trans at rush hour is Rob. Suzie is with him and maybe, Tamra, Kassie, IDK some other familiar faces. Still pressed up against Rob and dying. They get shit sorted and he immediately goes to their booth in the back.

We head to the bar as the stage is turning and friends gets three seats at the bar. So we sit and then Tamra and the blonde who is not Suzie or Kassie come to the bar with an English chick. They're trying to make their way in to order and so I say to English chick: "you want to get in here?" and she looks at me blankly. Hahaha.
But then Tamra looks at me so I say "I can move for a sec if you want to get up to the bar" and she says "oh, thanks so much" so I move off my little stool and am standing while she perches on my stool and orders ALL OF THE DRINKS for their party. During that time someone says to her, Kristen just got here and then Scout comes up to the bar to say hi to them and she starts speaking in an English accent. IDEK. Also I think someone prob saw Unbearable Lightness of Being at some point and all she took away from it was how sexy Lena Olin looks.

Anyway... So K also went straight back to the booth and really, you couldn't look back there unless you turned your whole body and blatantly trained your eyes on the back of the room. Tamra turned to me again and was like, sorry this is taking so long but I said, it's fine, no worries. And then she finally got all the drinks and was like, thanks again that was really nice of you and I was like, yeah of course. So then I took my seat again.

While this was happening, the guys were setting up the stage and Suzie and Lindsay walked past us headed toward Jack. I'm still indifferent but Suzie and Jack are cute.

Then! Right before the show started, Michaela came over because she'd maybe just arrived with some other people (including Nettie). Michaela was maybe a bit buzzed so even though I was perched on my bar stool, when she came in to order drinks, she like perched on the unoccupied side of it. Nettie is v tall and has questionable taste in beer. She ordered a BudLight. Suzie and Lindsay went back to the booth. They are both tall. The English girls got their drinks and followed them back and the show started.

The music was great. More rock than folk- very bluesy when Marcus was leading and then more Ryan Adams-y when Ruston Kelly was. The stage is not raised at all and the room really is very small. The front row person could reach out and touch the musicians so it's this sense of being in someone's living room and then they were rehearsed but not overly so so it had a very casual, messing around vibe that was awesome.

About two songs in or so Suzie and Lindsay came back to the front and Suzie sat as close to Jack on stage as she could get without actually getting on stage. Then with a few more songs left, Scout and Tamra came and shared a recently vacated seat right in front. Toward the end, they were deciding on their last song and Suzie shouted out a request that is something they're writing and have about three lines of so they did those three lines. It also was maybe just a joke bc it's not a real song. Cute moment though. Then their final song. So then it was over and I was fine to leave because I had to work this morning.

It was easier to look back toward their booth when the show was over. K was concealed by her curtain of reddish hair but I recognized the hoodie and RK were def next to each other and had been the whole time. They were sitting like on the ledge of the booth and K was leaned into him, I think behind his back, to talk to someone. Suzie and Lindsay went back to the booth and then at some point, Suzie was standing on the booth and Kristen was standing up next to her.

So we head toward the stairs but friend of friend ran into someone she knew as we were walking out and so friend and I hung around back against the wall again where we were when they first got there. While we're standing and talking, they leave and Rob goes first - big fucking tall guy with his long strides and then the girls are sort of surrounding Kristen but because of that they all have to turn to get through the small space and I'm up against the wall and they turn in my direction so then I'm kind of right up against Kristen and dying, again, some more. For like, 3 whole seconds. Goes without saying but homegirl is BEAUTIFUL. Again. Some more. I notice that her tshirt has some graphic on it and she's wearing the Us Vs. Them hat (backwards, natch). Then they're all gone.

When we get outside, R/K are gone but Scout, Suzie, someone else? are walking back toward the restaurant so that's how I know they didn't leave with K. I assumed RK left together but I guess not. They left Room 5 at the same time. I parked valet (can't street park in L.A. to save my life) so I said goodbye to friend and was waiting in the valet line behind a couple of the English chicks. Then I got in my car and was plugging my phone in waiting to turn right, look up and Scout darts in front of my car across the driveway. I didn't really almost hit her but I kind of almost hit her. (Look both ways.) And then I left and drove home and it was AMAZING OMG.

I didn't see any overt RK PDA but the couple times I glanced at the booth, they were practically sitting on top of each other. I warmed to Tamra from my interaction with her (not entitled, very polite). They just seemed like any other typical group of young people (said like an 80 year old grandma) enjoying live music in L.A. CUTE.