Modern Minstrels

Project Mayhem

Last night's concert was a much needed break from the almost non stop work I had every other night this past week. The pit was pretty crazy and definitely the roughest one I've been in yet. At times you were completely squashed and couldn't move at all and other times when you did have room to move everyone around you would just be jumping into you. Sarah and I were only in the pit for My Chemical Romance and Finch. It was all fun though. I'm a little sore today, but I'm still going to play racquetball later this afternoon. The only bad part of the pit was Sarah getting kicked in the neck by a crowd surfer. I think she's doing ok though...she always says she's tough.

My Chemical Romance had a pretty good set. I hadn't heard any of their songs beforehand, but I still enjoyed them. The Movielife played next and they were also quite good. They said they're doing a headlinging tour in a month or so, so I'll probably go see them when they come back.

Much to Sarah's and my surprise, Finch played next. This was Finch's headlining tour so we have no idea why they didn't play last. Our best guess is someone in the band was sick or hurt because they didn't even play that many songs. I'm really surprised they didn't play Letters to You seeing as that is one of their most well known songs. Despite that Finch's set was still incredible. They played a new song Worms of the Earth, which sounded a lot different from all their other songs. It was still good and hopefully I can find a copy of it soon. I don't remember the correct order but I think these are the songs they played:
Untitled
New Beginnings
Post Script
Grey Matter
Perfection Through Silence
Awake
Project Mayhem
Worms of the Earth
What it is to Burn

Next up was The Used. Their set didn't start out too well, but it got pretty good towards the end. Sarah and I stood in the back of the Agora for their set, so we could get out quickly, but there's a good reason for that. :-) Of the songs they played The Taste of Ink was the one I enjoyed the most. Bert (the lead singer) did a standing flip at one point which was pretty cool. He also stage dove into the crowd at one point.

Surprisingly, there was some flashing at the concert. Nate from Finch said "Wow, that is the first time anything like that has ever happened to us." After some girl flashed The Used Bert said, "Ok, that's enough self degradation for tonight."

So why did we want to be able to leave quickly after The Used were done? Because Allister was going to be playing in the Ballroom right after The Used were done! Since the last I read was that Allister had broken up, this was quite a surprise. Apparently they found a replacement guitarist and drummer, and this was the first (maybe second) time they played on this tour.

Sarah and I managed to get all the way up front in the middle of the stage. There's no barrier in the Ballroom, so we were just inches away from Scottie and Tim. The crowd was really tame, no pushing (except for 2 guys at the beginning of the set) or crowd surfing, just lots of jumping and singing. When they played Somewhere Down on Fullerton, Scottie said anyone who knows the words should come up on stage. Sarah and I did manage to make it up. I still don't know how the drums and sound equipment didn't get knocked over. After Allister was done Sarah manged to get their set list from one of the Agora workers. She's already gotten a pick at a concert, so her goal next time is a drumstick. Sarah typed up their set list for me to post, so here it is:

Scratch, Stuck, Overrated, Moper, The One That Got Away, Somewhere on Fullteron, Miz, Don't Think Twice, None of My Friends are Punks, Jacob, Camouflage, Boysenberry, Flypaper, Radio Player, and "cover"

I don't know what else to say except I had a blast and Allister's set was the most fun I've ever had at a concert.

What it is to Burn?

I'm going to the Finch concert tonight and as if I needed any more reason to be excited they releseased their video for What it is to Burn? yesterday. A very well done video for one of their best songs. Click here for the real video stream or here for the windows media stream.

Piano Rock

Needless to say, last Saturday's concert was lots of fun. Fiction Plane was good. Their lead singer looked a lot like Sting and even had a hint of a British accent. Although, the people around me didn't seem to like them very much, a group of about 15 people even sat down for a while. Vendetta Red was a lot different than I expected. I downloaded some of their mp3s before the show and they seemed like they'd be good, but they ended up mainly just screaming way too much. Juliana Theory wasn't as good live as I thought they would be. I can't believe they didn't play Congratulations, with such a cool guitar part and the fact that their CD has a video of them playing it live you would think they would have.

Something Corporate was simply amazing as always. They defintely got the crowd into their songs more so than any of the other bands. Though there's something very amusing about seeing/hearing a bunch of 12 year old girls singing "I kissed a drunk girl." And I have to admit setting the piano and stool on fire at the end of the show was a fun touch.

Here's the setlist for SoCo as best as I could remember:
Konstantine
Fall
Straw Dog
Little
I Want To Save You
The Astronaut
Drunk Girl
I Woke Up In A Car
Punk Rock Princess
Hurricane
Wait
If You C Jordan