Modern Minstrels

Rocking the Grog Shop

Apparently I never wrote about the Fall Out Boy, Mae, Motion City Soundtrack, Rufio show at the Grog Shop 2 weeks ago. Dana and I got to Coventry around 6:30 since both our tickets and the Grog Shop website said the show started at 7. However, when we got there, the people at the Grog Shop said the doors didn't open until 7, so we wandered around Coventry for a bit. Almost everything was closed though, even Big Fun. Then around 7 we went back and got in the Grog Shop. We looked at the merchandise stands for a bit. I really wanted to get a Fall Out Boy shirt, but I didn't really like any of the ones they had. Then we went and got right up in the front row and then we waited, and waited, and waited. Finally at 8 o'clock Fall Out Boy took the stage.

This was the third time I've seen Fall Out Boy, and they get more fun each time. They played just about every song off their album Take This To Your Grave and they played a new song. Seeing the crowd, you would have thought Fall Out Boy was the headliner. The highlight of their set, was at the end when Pete climbed up the wall and across various bars and pipes on the ceiling and hung upside down singing the chorus to their final song. They said they would be back in December with Less Than Jake, so I'm looking forward to that.

Mae played next and also put on a good set. Their music is not nearly as rocky as Fall Out Boy's, but it was really nice to listen to. The keyboard player had 3 different 3 keyboards that he played. I'm glad I got to see them live, and it's made me want to listen to their CD some more.

Motion City Soundtrack played third and were excellent as well. Their keyboard player had an Apple logo sticker on his keyboard. They played most of their songs off of I Am The Movie, including my personal favorite The Future Freaks Me Out.

After Motion City Soundtrack played, Dana and I went over to the merchandise area again. I was able to get everyone in Motion City Soundtrack to sign my CD cover from their CD that I bought over the summer. And I found all but one member of Fall Out Boy and got them to sign the baseball card I had which came with their CD.

After that Dana and I got some seats by the bar and sat and watched game 6 of the Cubs-Marlins series with the drummer from Fall Out Boy which was fun.