Modern Minstrels

Drive-Thru Invasion Tour

Dana, Kurt, Sarah, and I went to the Drive-Thru Invasion Tour at the Agora Theater last night. It was a really fun time. The line up was The Early November, Senses Fail, Allister, Homegrown, and The Starting Line.

The Early November is a really good live band. They said they'd be doing a headlining tour soon, so I'll probably go see them when they come back. Their new album, The Room's Too Cold, comes out on Tuesday. I already preordered it, because by doing so you get a DVD and a poster. It shipped last Thursday, so it should be here Monday or Tuesday.

Senes Fail was also really good, though the mosh pit got really crazy during their set. Sarah left partway through because some guy tying his shoes bit her leg. Dana and I ended up going to the back of the pit shortly after that because there was too much crowd surfing and neither of us really wanted to have our glasses knocked off.

Allister played next and put on an excellent performance as always. Unfortunately, all the bands played pretty short sets (6 or 7 songs) so it wasn't as good as when they played after Finch last year, or during their headlining show. After Allister played apparently Sarah and Kurt went out to the merchandise stand and Scottie (the lead singer/bass player of Allister) was there. Sarah had Scottie call my cell phone from her phone, but I was inside the theater, so I didn't hear it ring :( . I'm still mad I missed out on meeting Scottie, especially because I had my Last Stop Suburbia CD cover and a Sharpie with me.

Homegrown played after Allister. They were decent, though I only knew a couple of their songs, so their set wasn't as fun as the others.

The Starting Line were the headliners for the tour. This was the first time I've seen them live, and they were great. They played a bunch of songs off of Say It Like You Mean It, as well as a couple new songs that will be on their upcoming album. They also played Make Yourself At Home off of their acoustic EP which will be out November 25. I can't wait for that to be released, it's going to be really good. They also did one of the better encore's I've seen. They played their "last song" The Best of Me, which is their most well known single. A lot of bands pretend they are done before playing their most well known song, so you know they're coming back. There were a few chants of "TSL, TSL, TSL" and "One more song, One more song" but the lights had come on and people started to leave, so it didn't seem like they'd be coming back out. But after a couple more minutes they came back on stage to do their cover of Jennifer Lopez's song, I'm Real. Before they played that, Kenny (the lead singer) was trying to get the guys in the crowd to sing to some Justin Timberlake song, but it wasn't going so well, since no one really knew the song.

All in all, another very enjoyable concert.