Mondays are a hard night for live music -- crowds are smaller, audiences are distracted, and folks can't really justify going out super early, or staying out super late. We're sorry to admit that we're no exception to this rule -- we dragged our sorry butts home from work, already late to meet our companion and already freaking out about the early-morning meetings we had to make for today; decided, screw wearing something cute, we'll just go in our work gear; and raced off to Cafe du Nord just in time to hear Columbus Ohio's The Sun, opening for Berklee School of Music's Apollo Sunshine.

It's too bad that it was so drizzly and cold last night for the performances of two such warmly-named bands, and attendance was about what you'd expect for a Monday night show, but the Sun gamely kicked their way through a peppy alternative-rock set, with a lead singer in Rivers Cuomo horn-rims, a vigorous right leg on the bass drum, and three other striving boys. It was quiet enough at the Cafe that we could actually sit down and have a conversation in the back, though, so we're a little ashamed to reveal that, despite the perfectly-competent music being played, we ended up spending most of the set griping about the various indignities we suffered at the beginning of the work week.

Apollo Sunshine probably played an excellent set of their 60s-style power pop, and we really wanted to hear if they were as ska-sounding live as they were on the tracks we sampled, but because we had that early morning meeting at work today, we had to skedaddle before they started. We know, it's terrible.

We really do love how civilized Monday shows are; we just wish we didn't have to be so civilized ourselves.