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I arrived at the Rave around 6:45. I followed some guys in so I wouldn't get lost, and then I found a spot in the crowd behind two girls, one who was slightly taller than I am and another who was a lot shorter. For an hour, I text messaged my cousin and got increasingly angrier at my aunt for being such a goddamn cunt. Easter is not YOUR holiday, your people killed our lord, so fuck off and STOP STEALING EASTER EGGS. Uhm, anyway. Silversun Pickups started, surprisingly, almost exactly at 8:00 (which was the time on the ticket). Someone gave me a copy of "Carnavas" a while ago so I'd heard those songs before, but I didn't know anything about the band, so I thought the lead singer was a girl. Much to my surprise, there is a girl who sometimes sings (Nikki Monniger, thank you Wiki), but the lead is actually this mangy-but-sort-of-cute guy, Brian Aubert. His voice is very strange and androgynous, shut up. I liked him a lot; he talked to the crowd a few times and claimed that the Rave reminds him of Silent Hill. DITTO. Anyway, they started off with "Well Thought Out Twinkies," very nearly blowing my eardrums right out of my skull. God. Then they did "Rusted Wheel," and since that is the song I like best from them, that was cool. Next was "Little Lover's So Polite," and then another song I didn't know. Finally, they brought out Dan from Ok Go and one of the guitarists (Paul?) from Snow Patrol to help them on "Lazy Eye," which was also really good.
Ok Go were pretty quick in setting up; I think it took maybe ten or fifteen minutes. The people in front of me moved a bit, so I had a nice view of Damian Kulash the whole time, and if I turned my head I could see Andy Ross. Pictures were fucking impossible, unfortunately, because I was close but not that close, and I'm fucking short. The first song they played was "The House Wins," which had an amazing build up. Then they did "Television, Television," and "Don't Ask Me." Damian got the crowd to do the Wave, but it was pathetic. I think he said something like, "Yeah, I didn't think that would work." I'm not sure the order of the next songs, but I know they did "No Sign of Life," "Get Over It," and "A Good Idea at the Time." They had a camera up, and someone threw a figure of the Wicked Witch at Damian. "Most people throw bras up here, not figures of the munchkin... witch..." He held it in front of the camera and made faces and comments and it was ADORABLE. Then Damian told everyone in the crowd to wave their cell phones around like lighters during the second verse of the next song, which they did for "Oh Lately It's So Quiet." Before the second verse Damian did this stage whisper of, "This is the second verse!" After that Damian said the next song was for the "old folks up in the balcony," because they were the ones who didn't wave their cell phones around like he told them, ahaha. The song was an Electric Light Orchestra cover that I don't know the name of because sorry, I'm not that old. It was a great, though, and INSANELY loud. After that, Damian said someone sent him a Kids Bop version of "Here It Goes Again" last week, and he thought it was funny because that song was about a hangover, but apparently Kids Bop changed around the lyrics. So of course they did that song, and they ended with "Do What You Want."
Q: Who is Snow Patrol?
A: Dude, I still don't fucking know. When I found out Ok Go would be playing with them, I downloaded some of their songs to see if they were bearable. They're not a bad band at all, but I don't get how they could garner such a huge crowd. They're all right, but the thing is that they don't have any sort of distinctive sound, even on that "Chasing Cars" song which I am rather beginning to hate. I've been sick the last two days and I stored up all my energy today for this concert, so after Ok Go I decided that I did want to leave after all. But it was *impossible* to get out. First of all, I am one tiny person. Second, even if I did have someone larger and more convincing with me, the people just packed in tighter and tighter. I text messaged my mom that I was trapped, and then searched for a viable exit for the twenty minutes it took for Snow Patrol to set up. I ended up staying for I think four songs. They started off with "Spitting Games," which I still think is at least 3x better when it's the country version [link]. Then some song I don't know, then "Chocolate." Finally, after the lead singer talked a lot and said "fuck" about every three words, they did "Chasing Cars." Everyone around me sang along to that, and I wanted to gag because seriously, it's an ok song, but is it worth the $40 the girl in front of me apparently spent JUST to hear it? I don't think so. At that point, my legs and my back were slowly regaining their painful feeling as the cold medicine wore off, so I stepped on toes and "excuse me"d my way out of there. I got lost about three times, and then bought a black Ok Go shirt for too much money before finding the exit.
It should not be possible to be this tired and sore and hungry and thirsty all at once.