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Profilin’: Natalie D.

You TOTALLY love us and want to grab a beer sometime… when we’re not busy selling tickets to the raddest shows around, building kick-ass websites for our sweet clients and coming up with new and groundbreaking ticketing technology! BUT, alas you don’t really know us. And we certainly don’t get into cars with strangers.

But hey, maybe we could make this work. We see a future here… so sit back, relax and let us continue to introduce ourselves to you. Ya know, so we can grab that beer.

In our second company profile feature, we call your attention to the girl that’s hipper than the zipper, Natalie D. Ever wonder who injects the fun into our festivals? If you guessed Natalie, you’d be right. By learning more about our girl below, I’m sure you’ll be able to come to the same conclusion in no time at all.

1) What do you do at Front Gate Tickets?

I am the Account Coordinator in the Festivals department, so I work on a smorgasbord of festival-related things. I try to help clients and patrons have the best festival experience ever.

2) What are some bands that you’re really digging right now?

I’ve been watching way too much “Felicity” on Netflix, so I’ve mostly been listening to sad and sensitive musicians of past and present. Elliott Smith is in that rotation pretty heavily- Felicity definitely would’ve been upset by his untimely demise. I have also really enjoyed Other Lives’ “Tamer Animals,” Laura Marling’s “A Creature I Don’t Know,” Active Child’s “You Are All I See,” and Gotye’s “Making Mirrors.” Please listen to Gotye, he’s amazing (http://soundcloud.com/gotye). Also, I will never remove Sun Kil Moon’s “Ghosts of the Great Highway” from my earholes. That is the greatest record ever recorded.

3) What’s the best show you’ve ever seen?

It’s a tie! First, the Arcade Fire at Emo’s Outdoor (R.I.P.) in January of 2005. It was right after they released “Funeral,” so they had all this fresh band energy, and I had fallen in love with the record over Christmas. Seeing them in such a small space right before they clobbered over America was a special thing. Close second would be The Dismemberment Plan at The Starlight Ballroom in Philly on their reunion tour in January of 2011. I danced on stage during “The Ice of Boston,” and if you know anything about the Plan, you know that dancing near Travis Morrison while he’s singing about black ice will beat out every other experience of your life.

4) What’s your absolute fave movie and why?

“I was told there’d be no math on this exam.” I’m not going to pretend I have some lofty “Lawrence of Arabia” favorite. My favorite movie is “Reality Bites,” and it will be forever.

5) If you could hang out with one band/artist or music industry mogul who would it be?

My answer would be no musician ever, as the experience of meeting them always disengages you from their music, no matter how cool that person is. Ian Mackaye is the only exception to that rule. My actual answer is Chris or Josh from Barsuk Records. They have the best taste in music of all time. Any label that signs Nada Surf and the Dismemberment Plan are shooting arrows into my heart.

6) Would you care about sharing an interesting tidbit about yourself?

My great-great Grandfather invented the zipper, and I spent all 13 years of my public schooling trying to convince people of that interesting fact. It just sounds too fake. Also, if I had a time machine, I’d gun it to 88 and stop my GGGF from selling patents so recklessly. I’d be real awesome at being rich.

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