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I find myself very glad that I am going to see All Time Low again on Warped and very, very glad that I am not going to have to see any of the rest of the people on that bill again any time soon. Fuck you, Shortest Tour Ever Tour.
Granted, some of the blame for the general suckage goes to the venue because they don't allow crowd-surfing/stage-diving/moshing/fun and had security out in the crowd to damp down that shit before Valencia even started, but I still think Valencia were like 100 times less awesome than the last time I saw them.
(Yet I bought their cd on my way out anyway. I couldn't help it! They set up a freaking gauntlet with the band members trying to push the cd. In their defense, I like them a lot more on cd than I do in person, pretty much, so it won't go to waste or anything... not that I didn't already have the album downloaded.)
The first band sucked beyond the telling of it. Shirock or somesuch? And it was only two/fifths of them? And they kept trying to tell me they were a rock band but it was all LIES.
There For Tomorrow wasn't actually bad, but I didn't know a damn thing by them because Rocketown had their name spelled wrong on the website so I didn't actually listen to anything by them until yesterday.
Valencia, as I mentioned, put on a fairly lame show, and even if it wasn't entirely their fault, it wasn't entirely not their fault. Work within your restrictions, people!
Hit the Lights is one of those bands whose music sounds fairly punk-pop-ish and then you show up at the concert and it's all SURPRISE!HARDCORE. I hate that shit. (Set Your Goals, I am looking at you! One of the dudes in this band was wearing a Set Your Goals shirt, too, so I'm really really looking at you, bastards.) I sort of know/like a few of their songs, but they were so heavy on the surprise!hardcore that I couldn't understand the lyrics/music enough to even recognize the ones I'd heard before. If I wanted to go see a hardcore band, I would go see a hardcore band, damnit! ...though I maybe should have guessed from the song about killing someone and leaving them facedown in a parking lot? IDK.
All Time Low is a truly adorable band and I don't know why I didn't realize that before. And they played their cover of "Umbrella" and it was entirely made of awesome. And it caused a bunch of people to start crowd-surfing while security ran around desperately trying to yank them out and kill the fan uprising.
(I was pretty happy with security when they yanked out the dude who was lone!moshing in the second row and pissing off a fuckton of people, myself included. Yay, security! Except they were too busy trying to quell uprisings to properly rescue fainting teenies, which is how a teenie ended up landing on my girlfriend's head. Not cool, security, very not cool.)
But anyhow, ATL put on a good show, much better than I was expecting (I think Boys Like Girls lowered my expectations for any show ever, possibly) and now I kind of want to fangirl them all the time. Damnit, self.
Granted, some of the blame for the general suckage goes to the venue because they don't allow crowd-surfing/stage-diving/moshing/fun and had security out in the crowd to damp down that shit before Valencia even started, but I still think Valencia were like 100 times less awesome than the last time I saw them.
(Yet I bought their cd on my way out anyway. I couldn't help it! They set up a freaking gauntlet with the band members trying to push the cd. In their defense, I like them a lot more on cd than I do in person, pretty much, so it won't go to waste or anything... not that I didn't already have the album downloaded.)
The first band sucked beyond the telling of it. Shirock or somesuch? And it was only two/fifths of them? And they kept trying to tell me they were a rock band but it was all LIES.
There For Tomorrow wasn't actually bad, but I didn't know a damn thing by them because Rocketown had their name spelled wrong on the website so I didn't actually listen to anything by them until yesterday.
Valencia, as I mentioned, put on a fairly lame show, and even if it wasn't entirely their fault, it wasn't entirely not their fault. Work within your restrictions, people!
Hit the Lights is one of those bands whose music sounds fairly punk-pop-ish and then you show up at the concert and it's all SURPRISE!HARDCORE. I hate that shit. (Set Your Goals, I am looking at you! One of the dudes in this band was wearing a Set Your Goals shirt, too, so I'm really really looking at you, bastards.) I sort of know/like a few of their songs, but they were so heavy on the surprise!hardcore that I couldn't understand the lyrics/music enough to even recognize the ones I'd heard before. If I wanted to go see a hardcore band, I would go see a hardcore band, damnit! ...though I maybe should have guessed from the song about killing someone and leaving them facedown in a parking lot? IDK.
All Time Low is a truly adorable band and I don't know why I didn't realize that before. And they played their cover of "Umbrella" and it was entirely made of awesome. And it caused a bunch of people to start crowd-surfing while security ran around desperately trying to yank them out and kill the fan uprising.
(I was pretty happy with security when they yanked out the dude who was lone!moshing in the second row and pissing off a fuckton of people, myself included. Yay, security! Except they were too busy trying to quell uprisings to properly rescue fainting teenies, which is how a teenie ended up landing on my girlfriend's head. Not cool, security, very not cool.)
But anyhow, ATL put on a good show, much better than I was expecting (I think Boys Like Girls lowered my expectations for any show ever, possibly) and now I kind of want to fangirl them all the time. Damnit, self.
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