By Katie Webb, Assistant Entertainment Editor
The Coffeehouse Concert series, run by the Hofstra Concerts club on campus, held another Thursday night show at eight o’clock on October, 13 in the Netherlands Café. This week had a bizarre start, and became even more humorous by the end of the night.
The first performer was a graduate student by the name of Brian Walker. A Pennsylvania native this singer songwriter showed his loyalty by opening with songs from Philly area bands like Circa Survive. His singing was that of your mainstream starving artist, in this case possibly starving student as well, with a quavering mumbled voice with a punk rock edge.
What struck a chord deeper than his vocals was the manner in which he addressed, or rather comically berated, the audience. There were only a few dozen students in the Netherlands Café that night seeking solace in a cup of coffee and a bit of acoustic music, but those few probably did not guess they would get a good laugh too.
While crooning out a few original songs, which had interesting themes to say the least ranging from one about the Adam Sandler movie “Click” to poverty in third world countries, strange events began to occur. Walker yelled jokingly at passers-by for leaving the show, made odd puns in the middle of his songs, and told the audience, “I want you to clap and I’m going to yell in the middle of the song and it’s going to be awkward like I’ve been this whole