okay. i'm an outsider. i'll go.
i am sorry to say this, but what i thought was they should have played at the black cat or 9:30 or something of the sort; and not at st.albans. i am glad to hear that not everybody in your school is like that, but let me try to not lose my temper and compose a list of things that bothered me:
1) people rapping as an opener. jesus facking...oh god. that was TERRIBLE. with the student bands, and stuff? and that "if i were gay" song was just ridiculous...so immature, inappropriate. although i'm sure the st.albans kids found it fun and all their girlfriends found it fun because they knew the kids in the bands, the people that were there to see the walkmen were really irritated. all...four of us, right? hah. they needed to keep in mind that we, too, payed money to get into that show.
2) the obnoxious crowdsurfing moshing kids. that was RIDICULOUS. i will expect that at a ska or punk rock show, but i couldn't believe how they couldn't even compose themselves. 99% of the people there didn't even care about seeing the actual band, and were just there to push and be lame. i was right up in the front, trying to sing along, and there were two other guys up there that i could tell were really big fans also. i don't know if they went to st.albans or not, but them and my two other friends were really annoyed. we kept having to push crowdsurfers away. i don't think i have dropped the F bomb that many times in one night.
and, i almost got in a fight with some guys because i kept pushing them off of me and then they started tugging at my hair but flicking them off shut them up. i really hate being a bitch; but it was just...ridiculous. you couldn't even focus on the band. at one point, we just got up and moved to the side of the stage and that made everything okay and super-awesome.
3) like said before, the acoustics. the sound guys had no idea what they were doing and the vocals (among other things) needed to be way louder.
4) just...all the kids there. well most of them. that had no respect for musicians or anything like that. it kind of sucks for a band when you get up and play, and nobody is paying attention to you playing but instead are paying attention to being lameasses and the sort.
they played really well though, and i will see them again the next time they come.
that's just...stuff to keep in mind for next time.
you all did a really good job advertising, because a ton of people were there; but you must realize that enables more assholes to come and mess up the show.
