last night i went to the trackside teen center in wilton for a super cheesy dancey rock show. my friend alex came with me, and we both had a good time, considering we were quite possibly the oldest people there excluding parents and band members. that seems to happen to me a lot, as i love pop music, but that's just how it goes.
i wish my friend mike had been doing the sound for this show. it's always way too loud when he does, but it sounds amazing. this time around, the vocals were muddy and way too soft, but everything else sounded alright. there were some issues with the mic cable, but nothing major.
brighten played first. i caught a little bit of their set the night before at the space, but i had no idea they would be playing the trackside show. we must have gotten there right as they went on, but i saw someone i knew out front and we chatted for a bit before heading in.
sing it loud were up next. alex and i saw them last wednesday at the webster underground with valencia, charlotte sometimes, and we the kings. i was really only excited to see them because the bass player (who is a guy) looks eerily like my college roommate jen. it's the hair, mostly.
farewell came on next, and i was really excited to see them. i haven't gotten into their entire record, but there are a few songs that are really fun. they opened with "start it up," which is my favorite song off their cd.
the fourth band of the evening was every avenue, and they are the reason i wanted to go to this show in the first place. i must have played their album 40 times all the way through in the last week. they sound like the illegitimate love child of two of my favorite bands, bedlight for blue eyes and cartel. they're nice straight-up dancey pop rock. twice during their set, the lead singer tried to get me and my friend to move up closer to the front (i always stand in the back at shows, especially shows at teen centers) but we stayed put.
closing out the night, hit the lights played a decently long set. i'm not too familiar with them, so i only recognized one song. everyone else seemed pretty into it, though. one of their guitar players also tried to get us to move up front. i just put my hood on and gave a double thumbs-up in response. i knew the second-to-last song they played, and all the kids got really into it thinking it was their last song. they walked off stage, but the house music didn't come back on, and everyone knows that means encore.
one acoustic song later, the show was over. i said goodbye to the girl i knew, and alex and i made our way back to my car. i played both songs we wanted to hear every avenue play that didn't make it into their set, which is usually how i end every show i go to. it's perfectly acceptable to listen to a band on your way home from seeing them live, but it's bad luck to listen to them at any time during the day of a show. since i couldn't listen to it all morning at work, i played that record twice through on the way home.
it was absolutely worth the super long drive and the $12 to get in. there's nothing i enjoy more than seeing my favorite music as it happens.
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