Sunday, April 5, 2009

Battle of the Bands

Friday night I took Ryan, Mallory, Ashlie and Patrick to see Up From Under play at Battle of the Bands! It turned out to be a lame scene, with tons of punk teenage kids and adults who had come to see their kids play. We grabbed a table at the back and ordered a few buckets of beer...and waited. They were 45 minutes late going on and I thought my group was going to bolt, everyone was getting impatient. I chatted with Will and Luke and their parents while we sitting there, mainly Don and Cheryl. When they took the stage, all the little teeny boppers swarmed to the front of the stage, it was kind of hilarious. The band played 6 or 7 songs, and it was hard to hear the vocals because they were playing so loud, but I thought they sounded pretty good anyway. There were 3 judges set up at a table in front of them like American Idol, and when they were done they critiqued them. The first judge said he thought the band had a great commericial look, and said that the lead singer was really good looking. He said he had a man crush on Luke, haha! And said they sounded really good, harmonized well, blah blah blah. Basically they got all positive reviews, the crowd loved them. We were definitely ready to get out of there and didn't stay to see the other bands play. Up From Under ended up winning!! Yay!


We decided to go to Edna's because Patrick and Mallory had never been and they needed to try a famous lunchbox drink. It was packed, and we stood around and yawned a lot...again, making me feel like an old woman who can't stay out past 10pm. We left around midnight.
Mallory sitting next to this really drunk girl with a raspy voice, she kept leaning all over her and saying crazy things, but we couldn't say or do anything back because she looked like she could beat us all up!

1 comment:

Lucy said...

haha i almost beat her ass up after she told me i shouldn't carry luggage to the bar. rude!