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sean:
Man thanks for reminding me about how I'm probably not going to see Polvo on the 9th unless I can get my friends (who are fucks) to go.

I did just get my tickets for Silver Mt. Zion on the 23rd of May though! I can't wait for that show!

imagist42:
Re: Islands. I got there a little late but I wasn't worried because a couple relatively local bands I'd already heard and dismissed were opening. Little did I know when I got there an hour late the show was just starting because both those openers flaked at the last minute. So on comes Kid Theodore, who I'd never heard before. They were surprisingly engaging, especially as all three band members besides the drummer switched off between guitars, bass, keyboards and vocals for various songs. Then there was Future of the Ghost, who were mildly entertaining but delved too far into spazzy noise-fests during some songs for my liking. Finally around an hour and a half later than expected Islands came on. It's a shame, really, because they spent the greater part of the first two and a half songs ("Vertigo," "The Arm," and "Creeper" all off the upcoming album) trying to get the sound guy to fix the levels on everything from guitars to keyboards to Nick's mic. I swear the guy had to be retarded not to understand that looking directly at him, tapping something and pointing up means "turn me up!" The feedback on Nick's guitar got so bad during The Arm he dropped it and grabbed the mic so he could walk around and signal to the sound guy everything that needed to be adjusted, still singing the whole time. Once everything was fixed, the rest of the show was great. You could tell the crowd (small as it was, maybe 100 people at a generous estimate) was into the songs, dancing around and singing along to all the old songs like "Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby" and "Volcanoes." You could tell the band got real invested in the crowd too, as Nick stopped to chat longer and longer between the last few songs because, well, we chatted back.  They even played a Sinead O'Connor cover, which I thought was unusual until I found out they'd been playing it for a while now. There were only a couple times when everything seemed to lose a bit of energy, namely during the slow parts of "In the Rushes" and "Life in Jail," but the closing with "Swans" was fantastic and brought everything together. When we coaxed them back for one last song Nick asked, "Do you guys want us to play Rough Gem?" and everyone shouted yes at once to which he responded, "I guess I shouldn't have asked." I swear, I've never seen such a small crowd act make as much of a ruckus as we did during that song.

Tom:
I'm so fucking jealous

valley_parade:

--- Quote from: snowball on 21 Apr 2008, 11:17 ---The main act was sub par, they tried to compensate their poor playing with loud volume
--- End quote ---

This happened when they were on tour with Green Day as well. The sound was all fucked up, guitars too loud (imagine me saying that, christ), vocals barely audible.

Anyway! Saturday, I hitched a train from Cambridge down to Braintree to see Everybody Out! play a show at Newbury Comics in honor of Record Store Day. I think I'd mentioned before (from the Dropkick Murphys show) that they're insanely fun live, and once again, they didn't disappoint. With all the CD racks and whatnot, we were shoved in to a somewhat small, open space in the store. The set was great, aside from some problems with mic cables in the first few songs. Best part? It was Chris Sweeney's birthday, and someone decided to bake him a cake. It ended up getting passed through the crowd mid-set. That or me and Rick Barton going back and forth for a minute about whether or not they should play "Jack The Lad" (they did).

sk8brder40:
dearandtheheadlights,paramore,jimmyeatworldinoneweekkkk :D

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