LINE-UP: Envy on the Coast, Anberlin, Taking Back Sunday @ The Boulder Theater
As much as I love Envy on the Coast, twenty-five dollars for four people for one band is a little damaging to my sister's wallet, so ultimately, we decided not to go into the show, =(. It ended up selling out anyway, but we do decide to hang out around the venue before and after the show. For a very long time. We do, however, see Matt from TBS outside their bus, talking on his phone. Nora gets super excited, but we don't approach him. It's more fun to just admire from afar.
Eventually the doors open and everyone goes inside. We stand directly outside of the venue's doors as Envy starts performing, and we can actually hear them play, which is a nice treat seeing as how we couldn't get in at all. They play two new songs, I think, and they seemed pretty good from what I could hear. After their set, Jeremy comes into view right inside the venue's doors because that's where their merch is set up. My mom hopes that if we just stand there, he'll see us and come out and say hi. Nope. But he does see my mom and waves at her.
We round the outside of the venue afterward and see the rest of the guys taking their gear out from the venue to put it into their van which is across the street. The security guard there is getting suspicious of us, for some reason, so we just walk away instead of forcing our way into the alley and getting yelled at by some asshole.
We wait around by the front of the venue for a little while until we decide to cross the street to where Envy's van is to see if they're there. They are, so we walk towards them. I get all ansy, thinking this is awkward, but I'm forced forward. It's really dark by their van, but somehow, Sal sees us, says hi, and asks us how we are. It's a very sweet gesture since we were never sure if he knew who we were. Ryan sees us, too, and says hi. He finishes loading up the van and comes over to talk to us. He asks us how we are about two times, I'm pretty sure, and gives everyone a hug. Well, a half hug; Nora is the only one who gets a full one. ;) We do a little small talk, we ask how the tour's been going, and he tells us that touring with Taking Back Sunday is the greatest and that it's weird touring without them. When they had a day off, Ryan tells us, they felt so lost, so both bands were texting each other, all, "I miss you guys, man!" It's funny.
During the midst of this all Adam Lazzara (ADAM LAZZARA, OH MY GOD!) comes over and hands Ryan a guitar he had left behind, and I start freaking out. Adam Lazzara is standing practically two feet from me, but he leaves, and I calm down. Ryan then asks us if we liked the new songs, and Nora (stupid little Nora) says she hasn't heard them. "We played them tonight," Ryan clarifies. Duh Nora. "We... weren't in there," she says. None of us could lie to them if our lives depended on it. We weren't in there?! Oh no! "It sold out..." Nora adds, trying to ease her guilt. Did we not think it was going to sell out?" Ryan asks. We say that we weren't sure. We didn't know what TBS's fan base was like here, so we decided to just wait it out, and lo and behold, it sold out. Oh well. That's okay, at least we came afterward, he says. He tells us that he's gotta go and get food, so he gives us all hugs and says he'll see us next time. Love him.
Conveniently as we round the corner to the front of the venue, Jeremy is outside! He's talking with a girl holding a camera and smoking. Yay. He sees us and says hi very enthusiastically. He asks us how we are and such, and we talk for a good long while. He asks Daniel and I what grades we're going into, and if my brother still won't talk. Nope, he won't. My mom mentions how long his hair has gotten, and he likes it, still, and points out that Daniel used to have longer, so he would know what it's like. My mom wasn't sure if he had been waving to from inside earlier, but he was, and he hadn't thought anything of it until we tell him that we actually weren't in the show. He's super bummed out about this, but still thinks it's awesome of my mom to bring us down her to hang out anyway. My mom rules!
It suddenly hits Jeremy that he's been talking the entire time without introducing us to his lady friend. Her name is Emily, and she's Envy's photographer. She goes around the circle and introduces herself as we offer our hands and do the same. She, too, joins the conversation. She is very nice, and Nora tells her she wishes she had her job. (My sister loves photography.) Emily, however, doesn't think the touring photographer life is so fabulous, but if she wants it...
(Okay, so this happened so fucking long ago, so I've nearly forgotten everything that's happened. I feel like a failure!) I do remember, however, that Envy's new drummer, whom I do not know the name of (failure x2), comes out to talk to Jeremy, and Jeremy introduce us to him. It's so sweet! We go around, shakes hands, and tell him our names, except Daniel, ha ha, and he calls my mom and Nora "Nora Squared", so it wouldn't be too hard to remember.It's really funny, and actually quite clever! I've never heard that one before. The end of the conversation rolls around, and by this time, we've gotten a couple of people into the circle, i.e. Eddie from TBS. (Holy shit!) So Jeremy goes around and gives us all hugs.
"She gives the best hugs," he says about me as he walks off. "You should take lessons." Fuck yeah.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
danger radio, 19.05.2009
LINE-UP: Roe, Stereo Skyline, My Favorite Highway, Danger Radio @ Marquis
WHY DOES DANGER RADIO ALWAYS HAVE TO PLAY ON DAYS WHEN I HAVE OTHER THINGS GOING ON, HUH?!?! The Cab and This Providence were playing the same as them two times before that; sad, sad day, and this time, it was my older brother's birthday, so we weren't able to go to the actual show. FML. Instead, we decide to go to see if we can meet them afterward, but we don't end up heading down there until about 11 at night.
Because it's my brother's birthday, I'm still wearing this super awesome, very Demi Lovato like, black dress with a black and red checkered bottom from Forever 21 that looks super good on me, let me tell ya. My mom, Nora, and I wait around awkwardly as we see Andrew with his plate of pizza talking to a bunch of other people, among them Molly and her gang, who take it upon themselves to shoot us nasty glares for absolutely no reason at all.
Andrew spots us, and suddenly it hits him that we weren't there. (So sweet that he noticed.) He yells at us and asks, jokingly, if This Providence was playing. No, they weren't, we answer. So what kept us away? he walks over to us. It was our brother's birthday, we explain, and he accepts it as a valid reason for missing his show. My mom asks him if he actually notices that we're gone, and he says, he didn't think of it at first, but now that he sees us, of course he realized that we hadn't been inside the entire time.
We go off on a bunch of random conversations, but there's a point where Andrew full on pauses and looks me up and down (in a kind of inappropriate way) at least three times, and just jumps right back into what he was saying as if he hadn't just done anything awkward. Nora and I glance at each other and have to hold back laughter. This was probably the most memorable part of the night.
A couple of homeless people walk by and ask us for money. A woman asks if Andrew will share his food, and he gives all of it to her. "I wish I was that nice," I say; I really was. This reminds him about wanting to become healthier on the road, and so far, he's started to work out and run. That day, when he was running, he was listening to new Taking Back Sunday and totally jamming out while he was jogging. A man on a cyclist goes past him from behind and just stares at him as he goes by. Apologies for the self-expression.
Andrew says he also walked all the way to 7-11, where other homeless folks asked him for money, and he gave whoever it was two dollars, which was all he had. A few blocks down another person asks for money, but he apologizes and says he already gave it to someone else. But then the same person offers him some drugs that he's on, and Andrew's like, "Really, I don't have any money." He makes a joke about how you can't really trust anything they sell, even if you do do drugs. They're homeless, for God's sake! "It's probably rat poison, or something."
Funny story.
Where this next subject comes from I have no idea, but he starts telling us about his divine love for Scrubs and Zach Braff. He asks if we watch the show, which we unfortunately don't, but goes off describing an episode he really loves. He says that the producer for the Scene Aesthetic's album personally knows Zach Braff, so he's going to try to get her to "hook them up", in theory, so they can meet. And hopefully, through Zach Braff, he can meet Natalie Portman because he's totally in love with her. So is my sister. =) She adores her. They off on their "I love Natalie Portman" rant and Nora informs him that she's actually really short, so she's actually not taller than Andrew, like he thought. Hooray for him!
They bring up that rap she did on SNL, and I say, "I was like 13 when that premiered, I was like, 'What is this'," hoping he gets the hint THAT I'M REALLY YOUNG. Nada. My mom says she thought that he loved Ellen Page. Andrew says he does also love Ellen Page, but Natalie Portman would have to come first, then Ellen in a close second.
A little later on, we get pictures when it's about van call, so he says he has to go and gives us all hugs, but he ends up talking to us for a lot longer. I know Elan got involved for a quick minute because he needed a Sharpie, but that was about it. Andrew gives us another set of hugs and heads off. We, unfortunately, don't get to meet anyone else. I had really wanted to talk to Nico, but Andrew wouldn't shut the eff up, which was really okay because he's such a character. I love Danger Radio very, very much. Hopefully they next time they play it doesn't coincide with anything else that's important, but we'll just have to see.
WHY DOES DANGER RADIO ALWAYS HAVE TO PLAY ON DAYS WHEN I HAVE OTHER THINGS GOING ON, HUH?!?! The Cab and This Providence were playing the same as them two times before that; sad, sad day, and this time, it was my older brother's birthday, so we weren't able to go to the actual show. FML. Instead, we decide to go to see if we can meet them afterward, but we don't end up heading down there until about 11 at night.
Because it's my brother's birthday, I'm still wearing this super awesome, very Demi Lovato like, black dress with a black and red checkered bottom from Forever 21 that looks super good on me, let me tell ya. My mom, Nora, and I wait around awkwardly as we see Andrew with his plate of pizza talking to a bunch of other people, among them Molly and her gang, who take it upon themselves to shoot us nasty glares for absolutely no reason at all.
Andrew spots us, and suddenly it hits him that we weren't there. (So sweet that he noticed.) He yells at us and asks, jokingly, if This Providence was playing. No, they weren't, we answer. So what kept us away? he walks over to us. It was our brother's birthday, we explain, and he accepts it as a valid reason for missing his show. My mom asks him if he actually notices that we're gone, and he says, he didn't think of it at first, but now that he sees us, of course he realized that we hadn't been inside the entire time.
We go off on a bunch of random conversations, but there's a point where Andrew full on pauses and looks me up and down (in a kind of inappropriate way) at least three times, and just jumps right back into what he was saying as if he hadn't just done anything awkward. Nora and I glance at each other and have to hold back laughter. This was probably the most memorable part of the night.
A couple of homeless people walk by and ask us for money. A woman asks if Andrew will share his food, and he gives all of it to her. "I wish I was that nice," I say; I really was. This reminds him about wanting to become healthier on the road, and so far, he's started to work out and run. That day, when he was running, he was listening to new Taking Back Sunday and totally jamming out while he was jogging. A man on a cyclist goes past him from behind and just stares at him as he goes by. Apologies for the self-expression.
Andrew says he also walked all the way to 7-11, where other homeless folks asked him for money, and he gave whoever it was two dollars, which was all he had. A few blocks down another person asks for money, but he apologizes and says he already gave it to someone else. But then the same person offers him some drugs that he's on, and Andrew's like, "Really, I don't have any money." He makes a joke about how you can't really trust anything they sell, even if you do do drugs. They're homeless, for God's sake! "It's probably rat poison, or something."
Funny story.
Where this next subject comes from I have no idea, but he starts telling us about his divine love for Scrubs and Zach Braff. He asks if we watch the show, which we unfortunately don't, but goes off describing an episode he really loves. He says that the producer for the Scene Aesthetic's album personally knows Zach Braff, so he's going to try to get her to "hook them up", in theory, so they can meet. And hopefully, through Zach Braff, he can meet Natalie Portman because he's totally in love with her. So is my sister. =) She adores her. They off on their "I love Natalie Portman" rant and Nora informs him that she's actually really short, so she's actually not taller than Andrew, like he thought. Hooray for him!
They bring up that rap she did on SNL, and I say, "I was like 13 when that premiered, I was like, 'What is this'," hoping he gets the hint THAT I'M REALLY YOUNG. Nada. My mom says she thought that he loved Ellen Page. Andrew says he does also love Ellen Page, but Natalie Portman would have to come first, then Ellen in a close second.
A little later on, we get pictures when it's about van call, so he says he has to go and gives us all hugs, but he ends up talking to us for a lot longer. I know Elan got involved for a quick minute because he needed a Sharpie, but that was about it. Andrew gives us another set of hugs and heads off. We, unfortunately, don't get to meet anyone else. I had really wanted to talk to Nico, but Andrew wouldn't shut the eff up, which was really okay because he's such a character. I love Danger Radio very, very much. Hopefully they next time they play it doesn't coincide with anything else that's important, but we'll just have to see.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
this providence, 10.05.2009
LINE-UP: A bunch of local bands, This Providence @ The Depot
Even though the show was in Greeley and on Mother's Day, we convince our mom to take us up there and take Caleigh with us. The venue is not really a venue at all, it's a tiny warehouse with two separate sections: one a lighted gathering area with games and a food place, the other through a door that's dark where the stage is set up. It even has a wall that opens when the bands need to set-up! It's so cute! We get up there after the first band is finished playing their set, and we walk straight into the stage area. We watch the first band, who are actually quite decent (The Analog Reason, maybe they were called). The singer reminded me of Brendon Urie at times; it was amusing.
We head back out to the gathering area (it's a Jesus place) and sit around while Regret Night plays because we can't stand them - no offense-, leaving my mom behind in the other room. Finally, finally I spot David Blaise in the opposite corner of the room on his laptop. We sit around, order a delicious Ice Chai beverage for under two dollars and a pretzel (XD), and watch David Blaise make weird motions at his laptop. It's kind of cute, actually, and I'm quite entranced.
"Is he watching something?" I ask Caleigh. She answers, "He might be talking to someone. Probably Cass," she adds jokingly, as in Cassadee Pope from Hey Monday. (It pretty much destroyed me when I found out they were dating... not really.) I decide to take the ballsy move and "discreetly" walk by to see what he's doing. Right there, on his laptop screen IS CASSADEE! I was going to keep walking by on down to my mother, but I totally freak out and bolt backwards back to my sister and Caleigh. "I thought you were just kidding!" I tell Caleigh as I explain to them that David Blaise is, in fact, talking to Cassadee. That pretty much tears my heart in two (She's my girlfriend!) and I totally freak out, hence why I couldn't keep going forward. It was too much.
I go to get my mom so she doesn't have to sit by herself anymore, and I explain to her what happened because she was wondering why I had run away like I did. I'm totally freaking out because I really didn't think Caleigh could have been right. The image of her on the screen is forever burned into my mind. Ha ha ha ha. It really is, though.
Even then we continue to watch David Blaise as he finishes his virtual chat with Cassadee, gawk at Andy Horst when we see him (my mom loves him), and make fun of Dan Young and his silly accent. One of the guys from Regret Night - the least obnoxious one - comes over to talk to us, God only knows why. He asks us if we like Saving Verona, the band currently playing, and we all just shrug. He tells us that he actually really likes them and misses seeing them play. "So why don't you go watch them?" Nora says. "Oh I didn't mean it like that," she adds when he shamefully leaves us alone, realizing we don't actually want to talk to him. Poor kid.
Towards the end of Saving Verona's set, we go back into the stage area to watch the last few songs. We pass Andy on the way in, and my mom totally freaks out. Internally, that is. Saving Verona is actually really good, but I don't think I'd go out of my way to listen them. Dan Young is sitting on one of the couches, so my mom goes to sit next to him while Caleigh is pushing me to stand closer to where David Blaise is standing. Dan young eventually leave, though, but I find it really funny. Finally, it's This Providence's turn, so we get closer to the stage.
Dan Young is really interesting to watch on stage: he kind of squirms and twists like he has to go to the bathroom, but that's just my observation. Caleigh liked it, but I don't know what's wrong with her. They don't perform for very long at all, but pretty much divide their set with half of the songs from the new album and the other half from the one before. And overall, it was a really good time.
Afterward, we actually decide to brave it and meet Dan Young. He tells me he likes the coordination I have with my gold vest and the gold print on my "This ProviDANCE" shirt, and I politely tell him thanks you and that I was glad he noticed. We get pictures (Caleigh gets two because she didn't like the first one. Lame-o.), and my mom says something about having gone to sit next to him. He says something along the lines of how he liked that she was confident enough to do so. Strange. Very strange. He does tell her Happy Mother's Day, though, which is nice.
We meet David Blaise next after hesitating to approach him and take some pics. I "blink" in the first one, so I get another one. (I really didn't blink; I don't know what Nora's talking about.) "It's your birthday in 8 days, isn't it?" I say to him to start a conversation. "Yeah," he answers, "The big 21, but I still look really young." "My sister has the same problem," I tell him. "People always say she looks like she's 14, but she's really 20." Don't you hate that? he asks her, she agrees, and they go off on a quick conversation about their ages. There's another girl butting into our conversation (which is okay, because I actually like her, and I think she's nice), Kay, I think her name is, who also look like she's 12 because she's super short. She becomes part of the conversation, too.
David goes one to say how sometimes people take his youth ridiculously far. "Are you 10?" he quotes, and I make a comment about how yes, he's 10, he's tall, and he has a tattoo. "Yeah, my mom let me get this." He goes along with my joke, "I got it out of the 25 cent dispenser," which is the most hilarious part. He asks for our names, and we introduce ourselves. It's totally sweet, and I love him even more. He tells us to have a good night, and I go to hug him. He gives very sweet hugs. =)
We stop by to meet Gavin, and head outside to find Andy. He's talking to a few people and smoking (FAIL), so we wait around in a little group beside theirs, awkwardly, I might add. He looks over a few times, wondering what we want, but it isn't until he parts ways with them that we rush over to get pictures. One with my mom, of course because she loves him so much! She even gets a hug out of him! (That lucky bitch! XD) Dan Young ends up with us, too, and while we take turns getting a picture with Andy, Caleigh starts talking to him. About what, not even she knows, but she likes it. He tells Mom Happy Mother's Day again, and that's when it clicks in Andy's head, and he wishes her a happy day as well.
We leave soon after that and head home. Overall, it was a pretty successful night, and I know even my mom was glad that she made the effort to drive all the way down there. ;)
Even though the show was in Greeley and on Mother's Day, we convince our mom to take us up there and take Caleigh with us. The venue is not really a venue at all, it's a tiny warehouse with two separate sections: one a lighted gathering area with games and a food place, the other through a door that's dark where the stage is set up. It even has a wall that opens when the bands need to set-up! It's so cute! We get up there after the first band is finished playing their set, and we walk straight into the stage area. We watch the first band, who are actually quite decent (The Analog Reason, maybe they were called). The singer reminded me of Brendon Urie at times; it was amusing.
We head back out to the gathering area (it's a Jesus place) and sit around while Regret Night plays because we can't stand them - no offense-, leaving my mom behind in the other room. Finally, finally I spot David Blaise in the opposite corner of the room on his laptop. We sit around, order a delicious Ice Chai beverage for under two dollars and a pretzel (XD), and watch David Blaise make weird motions at his laptop. It's kind of cute, actually, and I'm quite entranced.
"Is he watching something?" I ask Caleigh. She answers, "He might be talking to someone. Probably Cass," she adds jokingly, as in Cassadee Pope from Hey Monday. (It pretty much destroyed me when I found out they were dating... not really.) I decide to take the ballsy move and "discreetly" walk by to see what he's doing. Right there, on his laptop screen IS CASSADEE! I was going to keep walking by on down to my mother, but I totally freak out and bolt backwards back to my sister and Caleigh. "I thought you were just kidding!" I tell Caleigh as I explain to them that David Blaise is, in fact, talking to Cassadee. That pretty much tears my heart in two (She's my girlfriend!) and I totally freak out, hence why I couldn't keep going forward. It was too much.
I go to get my mom so she doesn't have to sit by herself anymore, and I explain to her what happened because she was wondering why I had run away like I did. I'm totally freaking out because I really didn't think Caleigh could have been right. The image of her on the screen is forever burned into my mind. Ha ha ha ha. It really is, though.
Even then we continue to watch David Blaise as he finishes his virtual chat with Cassadee, gawk at Andy Horst when we see him (my mom loves him), and make fun of Dan Young and his silly accent. One of the guys from Regret Night - the least obnoxious one - comes over to talk to us, God only knows why. He asks us if we like Saving Verona, the band currently playing, and we all just shrug. He tells us that he actually really likes them and misses seeing them play. "So why don't you go watch them?" Nora says. "Oh I didn't mean it like that," she adds when he shamefully leaves us alone, realizing we don't actually want to talk to him. Poor kid.
Towards the end of Saving Verona's set, we go back into the stage area to watch the last few songs. We pass Andy on the way in, and my mom totally freaks out. Internally, that is. Saving Verona is actually really good, but I don't think I'd go out of my way to listen them. Dan Young is sitting on one of the couches, so my mom goes to sit next to him while Caleigh is pushing me to stand closer to where David Blaise is standing. Dan young eventually leave, though, but I find it really funny. Finally, it's This Providence's turn, so we get closer to the stage.
Dan Young is really interesting to watch on stage: he kind of squirms and twists like he has to go to the bathroom, but that's just my observation. Caleigh liked it, but I don't know what's wrong with her. They don't perform for very long at all, but pretty much divide their set with half of the songs from the new album and the other half from the one before. And overall, it was a really good time.
Afterward, we actually decide to brave it and meet Dan Young. He tells me he likes the coordination I have with my gold vest and the gold print on my "This ProviDANCE" shirt, and I politely tell him thanks you and that I was glad he noticed. We get pictures (Caleigh gets two because she didn't like the first one. Lame-o.), and my mom says something about having gone to sit next to him. He says something along the lines of how he liked that she was confident enough to do so. Strange. Very strange. He does tell her Happy Mother's Day, though, which is nice.
We meet David Blaise next after hesitating to approach him and take some pics. I "blink" in the first one, so I get another one. (I really didn't blink; I don't know what Nora's talking about.) "It's your birthday in 8 days, isn't it?" I say to him to start a conversation. "Yeah," he answers, "The big 21, but I still look really young." "My sister has the same problem," I tell him. "People always say she looks like she's 14, but she's really 20." Don't you hate that? he asks her, she agrees, and they go off on a quick conversation about their ages. There's another girl butting into our conversation (which is okay, because I actually like her, and I think she's nice), Kay, I think her name is, who also look like she's 12 because she's super short. She becomes part of the conversation, too.
David goes one to say how sometimes people take his youth ridiculously far. "Are you 10?" he quotes, and I make a comment about how yes, he's 10, he's tall, and he has a tattoo. "Yeah, my mom let me get this." He goes along with my joke, "I got it out of the 25 cent dispenser," which is the most hilarious part. He asks for our names, and we introduce ourselves. It's totally sweet, and I love him even more. He tells us to have a good night, and I go to hug him. He gives very sweet hugs. =)
We stop by to meet Gavin, and head outside to find Andy. He's talking to a few people and smoking (FAIL), so we wait around in a little group beside theirs, awkwardly, I might add. He looks over a few times, wondering what we want, but it isn't until he parts ways with them that we rush over to get pictures. One with my mom, of course because she loves him so much! She even gets a hug out of him! (That lucky bitch! XD) Dan Young ends up with us, too, and while we take turns getting a picture with Andy, Caleigh starts talking to him. About what, not even she knows, but she likes it. He tells Mom Happy Mother's Day again, and that's when it clicks in Andy's head, and he wishes her a happy day as well.
We leave soon after that and head home. Overall, it was a pretty successful night, and I know even my mom was glad that she made the effort to drive all the way down there. ;)
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