So I realize these posts are a long time in coming. I suck. Don't forgive me. Beat me with rubber hoses. I deserve it. But in my defense, I have been sick the past week or so. I also actually started this particular blog over a week ago, got interrupted, and didn't have a chance to finish it until now.
Friday night (June 26th) I drove down to Louisville for the Scream the Prayer tour. It was the opening night of the tour, and I was super excited.
The place was called Headliners Music Hall. It's a rather nifty old brick building. It's not much to look at on the outside, but inside it has big old fashioned looking paintings on the wall of what appears to be 1800s ballroom dancing. It also happened to be in a really easy location to find and at which to park. Heck, acoustically it even sounded good.
The first band to play was called Oh Great City or some such thing. I think they may have been purely a local act. The kids looked like they were maybe 18, but they didn't sound too bad. They didn't do anything particularly interesting, but like I said, they weren't bad.
The second band and the first national act was Corpus Christi. They happen to have a rather well muscled guitarist with Fabio hair and now that I think about it, a face that looked like that of Tarzan in the Disney movie. The girls in the audience were obviously smitten. Two girls next to me would not stop repeating "Oh my god!" Seriously, they must have said that for a good five minutes. It was sickening. At least Corpus Christi did a pretty decent job of rocking. They were tight and sounded alright.
A Plea for Purging played third. I had been looking forward to their set, considering all the good things I had heard about them. I'd never listened to them before, so I was eager for the opportunity. They were just ok. They were clearly talented, but they just didn't seem to have mastered the art of songwriting.
For Today was next. They seemed to have a pretty large following in the crowd. Again, they were just ok. The vocalist took a five minute break in the middle of the set to start talking about the Holy Spirit. Great. The Holy Spirit is awesome, but this is a concert, not church. Play a song. You're just preaching to the choir, and if you're not, then you are pissing off non-choir members.
Agraceful also had its own following. My first impression of them was that if I breathed to hard I might blow the vocalist and the guitarist over. These guys were the scrawniest rockers you could imagine. And the band kind of annoyed me. I had never heard them before, but what I did hear didn't impress.
Gwen Stacy apparently hails from Indianapolis, and I think that fact alone brought them quite a strong crowd. They were actually better than I expected. I'd tried to listen to some of their stuff on myspace, but it had annoyed me so fast that I stopped. It was much better live. They weren't great, but they weren't bad either.
Oh, Sleeper played to a crowd that was starting to grow restless in the overly hot and muggy Kentucky evening. They weren't bad, but they didn't get a great reception from the crowd.
The next band to play was Project 86, my personal favorite band of all time. The first thing I noticed was that their guitarist was missing, and they played the show with their bassist on guitar and a couple fill-ins on bass and drums. Naturally, they sounded awesome though, but the crowd was absolutely terrible. I think Andrew (the singer) thought it somewhat amusing. He kept commenting on all the people standing around with their arms crossed instead of getting into the show. Project played nine songs, including two new ones off of their upcoming album. It was a good set. It was just depressing that they were an opener and couldn't play longer and that the crowd was so rude.
The Chariot was the first headliner. They were alright. They sounded fine when they actually played, but they spent way too much time making random noise, unrelated to their actual songs. I think part of this was fueled by the chaos they wreaked on stage. At one point, Josh Scogin (the vocalist) accidentally pulled apart the drumset and this caused a rather long delay in the show. This was especially bad since Haste the Day was still to come, and so they were on a time limit. It was kind of disappointing.
Haste the Day was the headliner. I didn't really care. They sounded fine, but they certainly didn't put on the best show. At that point, I think the crowd was tired, and a lot of kids had come to see other bands, so the crowd was very anemic. A good deal of people had left, and the result was a pretty sad display of crowd support for a headlining act.
Overall then, I have to say that Kentucky sucks. It is a terrible place to have a concert. Those inbred rednecks just waste space.
I did get to talk to Andrew from Project 86 after the show. I asked him where the guitarist was, and he explained that Randy had taken this tour off. They've been doing this for thirteen years and occasionally they need some time off.
Oh, one more thing to note about this show. As I was standing at the Project merch table, my back absolutely flipped out. I almost fell over. I was in so much pain, and I was only staying upright by putting all my weight against the merch table in front of me. I had horrifying thoughts of being stuck there and not being able to make it back to the car to leave. Fortunately after about thirty seconds it eased up, and I was able to walk. I still have no idea why it did that. It's been alright since then, if a little on the stiff side.
On Saturday (the 27th), I saw Becoming the Archetype in Franklin, Indiana in front of a crowd of roughly 35 people. It was a whole different experience than the Scream the Prayer show. I've been in tiny venues before, but I've never been to a show where that few people showed up. But I must say that for the people that were there, they did pretty well. Several kids were absolutely going insane moshing and circle pitting. The opening acts were obviously nothing more than openeners, but they were enthusiastic. Becoming the Archetype was awesome though. They brought some good old fashioned death metal to Indiana that night.
So I guess I could have stretched this blog out much longer, but I think that instead I will focus my efforts on further bloggings sometime soon. I know I have over a week of information to share with you my faithful readers. And as some of you may know, it was a somewhat eventful week, considering my boring life. Oh well, have a good day all of you wonderful people who read this.
P.S. the answer is gray...buttonless and gray.
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