went to a concert

[fatboy1185]

on saturday night. bands playing were Aiden, Enter Shikari, School Yard Hero's, and a few other small ones. it was fun

[deevergote]

Enter Shikari is playing in the US? I gotta go see em!

[fatboy1185]

Enter Shikari is playing in the US? I gotta go see em!

ya check out there myspace for tour dates

i had never heard of them before this. man did they rock.. their stage presence was awesome!! right off the bat the lead singer dove into the crowd holding the mic and was singing while crowd surfing lol. i cant wait till they come back

[deevergote]

Yeah, AccordWarrior showed them to me last spring, and I've loved them ever since.



Ugh... the only NJ date is at the Stone Pony... the house that Bruce built. It's changed hands about 6 times over the years, been newly renovated, and is currently staffed by 100% pure American assholes. My friend's band played there... they were on second initially, and the first band was warming up when the staff told them that because they sold the least tickets, they go on first. So they stopped the first band's sound check, had to use their settings (a post-punk/grunge band playing with the settings of a hippie jam band... yeah, sounded like poop). My friend was pissed, even though they played well and the crowd was into it. He smashed his guitar at the end. The bouncer tackled him, knocking over the microphone stand. They were then kicked out of the place... after being forced to pay $320 for the slightly damaged $180 microphone (which they ended up taking with them... had to fight for it, but if they were paying for it, they were taking the "broken" one!)
The Stone Pony didn't advertise the show. They didn't provide drink tickets for the band. They did nothing. Then they treated the bands like crap.

Sadly, I'm boycotting the Pony.

[fatboy1185]

man that does sound like a stupid place. there is a smallish place in portland that i watch most of the concerts at, but everyone is cool. moshing, crowdsurfing, stage diving, pretty much everything is a loud. people crowd surf up to the stage, and like the band members will grab them and sing to them, then push them back into the crowd to surf some more bwahahah.

you can stand right next to the stage, so the band is always giving high five/spitting/dumping water/throwing stuff into the crowd so you really feel connected to the music. so far nothing out of hand has happend, and i've been there for quite a few shows

[CB7lx91]

Aiden's a good band! Haven't heard the others though, will have to check em out.

[deevergote]

man that does sound like a stupid place. there is a smallish place in portland that i watch most of the concerts at, but everyone is cool. moshing, crowdsurfing, stage diving, pretty much everything is a loud. people crowd surf up to the stage, and like the band members will grab them and sing to them, then push them back into the crowd to surf some more bwahahah.

you can stand right next to the stage, so the band is always giving high five/spitting/dumping water/throwing stuff into the crowd so you really feel connected to the music. so far nothing out of hand has happend, and i've been there for quite a few shows

There are so many better places in the Philly area... The First Unitarian Church is one of the best venues around. It's a church basement. Small, hot, loud. A basement. But I've been to a few shows there, and they're great. The singer of one band (C.R., probably never heard of by anyone here, and probably long gone...) was in the crowd during Ink & Dagger's set. He did a backflip off the "stage" (little risers... lol) and booted me in the face. I went down, and 3 people picked me up and made sure I was ok. THAT was a good crowd. I miss the old hardcore scene... it's just not the same anymore. The oldschool heads hang in the back and watch the nu-metal kiddies thrash around and hurt each other. The only time I've gotten up front in the past 6 years was to put some jerkass on the ground. I don't care if they hurt each other, but if there are young kids up front, you shouldn't act like you're in a prison brawl! (the one dude in particular was knocking over 12 year old girls... I plopped him on his arse, got glared at for a good 15 minutes, and then went over and made friends with the guy. ) But I digress... just reminiscing about the good old shows... Hopefully I'll get to experience that in the coming months... my band should be playing out soon!


I wonder if I can talk to a promoter friend of mine to get Enter Shikari a show down my way... screw the Pony!

[fatboy1185]

bwahaha might as well!

ya people are pretty friendly here, there was like 12 times where people jumped off the stage and ended up landing on the ground somehow bwhahaha while super funny to witness, probably very painful, but they were always helped up and shoved back on top of the crowd lol

ima bigger guy (6'6'', 230lbs), so when crowd surfers come my way, i crouch down to where im normal hight, then put my legs into it and launch the little buggers a good 5 feet through the air onto people who arent even ready for a crowd surfer bwhahaha

this one song Enter Shikari sang, he was like okay, goal for this song is 50 stage dives, so after that song i was hecka tired from launching people towards the stage lol

[deevergote]

Man... I feel like a doofus! I messaged the band on myspace, saying I was looking forward to seeing them this summer, and that the Stone Pony sucks... Of course, that was LAST June... I saw the 08 replies of other people that misunderstood, and thought it was a current date!

Funny, I don't remember seeing that when I first heard them, which WAS last June!


Oh well... the cool thing is that they responded right away, so that's pretty awesome They're right where bands are the best... "big", but not rockstars.