Tuesday, August 26, 2008

WARPED PHOTOS

Head over to the "PHOTOS" section of inklings.tv and check out all of the amazing photos taken by the inklings team at Warped Tour '08 including new friends and family Tom Falcone and Donny Tsang. Here are two that I've been using as my wallpaper lately.


Updates!

So, I realize I never actually wrote anything about day 4 of Warped Tour. It was over a month ago, but my memory is eerily sharp so I might still write a blog about it.

We have probably about half of our Warped Tour videos posted so far. If you haven't checked them out yet, head to the video player for interviews, Warped trivia, a look into the lives of tour managers, plus a whole lot more. Lots more coming as well, so keep checking back.

We went to a bunch of shows the last week or so. Last Thursday we headed out to my all-time least favorite venue, Vibe Lounge on Long Island (or as I like to call it "the death trap." Normally I wouldn't feel the need to say anything negative about a venue, but I'm pretty sure within a year this place will be the site of one of those club fire stories where kids die at a poorly staffed/overcrowded show. Seriously.) We went to see Socratic, along with Thieves & Villains. Thieves & Villains will be playing a show with The Graduate in a couple weeks that we'll be heading to Chicago for.

Saturday we posted a new interview with You, Me, and Everyone We Know, then drove to School of Rock in NJ to see them. It was the last night of their tour with The Dear Hunter. Last-night-of-tour shows are always a lot of fun, and this was no exception. Also we'd never been to School of Rock before, I liked it except for the fact that it was a bit of a sauna. All the bands got up onstage near the end of The Dear Hunter's set-- video here.

Last night we headed to School of Rock (again) for a last-night-of-tour show (again), this time for The Hush Sound tour. We shot our interview with The Cab right at the beginning of the tour, but couldn't stay for the show that night so I was glad we got to catch the tour before it ended. We missed The Morning Light, but we did get there in time to catch Steel Train. I've seen them a bunch of times and they're always fun. Their Mamma Mia sing-along cover was pretty great. I hadn't seen The Cab before-- they definitely have some of the catchiest songs I've heard this year. Not that I didn't enjoy the bands playing their own songs, but my favorite part of the show was The Hush Sound/Steel Train's 8-tambourine cover of the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back." I've been listening to Michael Jackson since before I was born (seriously) so I'm partial to any MJ/Jackson 5 covers. The more, the better.

We've got a lot coming up BESIDES the rest of the Warped videos, so stay tuned...

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