Nathan Englander's "First Concert"

                                                  

In First Concert, all kinds of folks have discussed their first live music experience and the impact it might have had on their life and for some, their art. Dozens of creative people have shared their amazing stories of unhinged live performances or forgotten B-sides. So here goes another installment of First Concert.

Nathan Englander is the author of the story collections What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank and For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, as well as the novel The Ministry of Special Cases. Along with What We Talk About, Englander’s translation of the New American Haggadah (edited by Jonathan Safran Foer) and his co-translation of Etgar Keret's Suddenly A Knock at the Door were also published in 2012. His play “The Twenty-Seventh Man” will have its premiere at The Public Theater in November. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and Madison, Wisconsin.

What was the first concert you ever attended? How old were you?

The first person I saw in concert was Adam Ant. I was probably 14 or 15. 

What do you remember about the performance?

I remember that he was wearing jeans so utterly shredded that they didn't really qualify as pants anymore. And, simply, that it was a lot of fun for a deeply religious, sheltered kid to be at a concert.

How do you think that experience affected you as an artist?

It's the first time I ever saw anyone work the room. There was a store in suburbia called Mutts & Butts that sold dog food and cigarettes. And Adam Ant made a joke about the store - it was him sharing local, insider knowledge, a nod to the place he was performing. I have no idea why my teenage self would note that, but it did.             

            

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