Wow, great fucking night.
Breakdown of events:
Red-16 was supposed to open the doors at 6:30pm so The Honey’s could load in. The peeps didn’t get there until 7pm, so that stressed me out early on.
Crowd was slow to arrive between 7-8pm, and I blame this mostly on people not used to shows starting this early. However, The Honey’s did a great job of letting their fans know they were going on early, so by the time the band hit the stage @ 8:30pm there was a nice sized crowd there.
Honey’s played well, it was fun to see them again. No Skid Row covers though!
After the Honey’s it was time for my NJ friends The Multi-Purpose Solution to play. The crowd didn’t know what to expect but it seems that they certainly won over some fans. They made me really proud.
As a side note, for those of you who didn’t know, I’ve known the MPS since high school, all of them are great friends of mine. I was so happy to spend the weekend with them and for them to play at my show.
Denovo played one of the best sets I’ve ever seen of theirs. They did an extended remix of one of their songs (I’m bad with names) and pased out these plastic egg shakers to the crowd that set up an awesome mood.
Miranda Sound were great! A few sound issues early on but for the most part their set was so fucking brilliant. It’s so great to hear their new songs evolving. I can’t say how much I love them.
84 Nash closed up the night as only they could. They tore through old stuff, new stuff, everything you could ever want from the band. There were people moshing. Brandon busted his lip. A roll of tape tied up the crowd. It was a glorious mess of rock and roll beauty.
We sold some donewaiting.com t-shirts, met some new friends and had a great night.
Thanks to everyone for coming out, it means so much to us. And thanks to the bands for performing, you all rule.
And thanks to Peko for doing the door, my beautiful girlfriend for running merchandise and doing a poster, and Clint Reno for doing a poster too. You are all niceys.
I’m really happy.
ALSO: Discussion of the show going on here.
