I'm terrible at those wrapping-up-the-year lists that people make, top 10 songs/albums, etc. Usually I end up putting fall releases higher on the list than they ought to be, just because I'm listening to them at the time I'm writing the list. I can, however, do a pretty decent concert wrap-up. I probably spent atleast 20x more on shows than CDs last year, anyway, so it seems appropriate.
I went to 76 shows and saw 135 different bands (and saw 86 bands for the first time).
I saw these bands atleast 5 times:
I Am the Avalanche, You Me and Everyone We Know, Four Year Strong, Lannen Fall, Socratic, The Graduate
I saw these bands atleast 3 times:
Farewell, Forever the Sickest Kids, A Loss For Words, Danger Radio, Every Avenue, Hit the Lights, Holiday Parade, Just Surrender, Mayday Parade, Paper Rival, Paramore, The Scenic, This Is Hell
Top 5 shows this year:
1. Inklings Birthday Party (The Graduate, Socratic, Lannen Fall)
Imagine that you're watching one of your favorite bands, and you and pretty much everyone around you are completely shmammered and shouting along to every word (and those that aren't are thanking you for introducing this band into their lives). Also you put on the show. I think Naomi and I spoiled ourselves a little with this show.
2. The Starting Line final hometown show (w/ Bayside, Four Year Strong)
Not only was this definitely the best Starting Line show I've ever seen, it was one of the best shows in general. I hadn't seen them play The Drama Summer since the first time I saw them back in 2002.
3. Long Island Warped Tour
Maybe it's cheating to list a festival tour, but sooo many bands killed it at this date.
4. Butch Walker
I'd never seen him, or really listened to him much before this, but he is to Naomi what Michael Jackson is to me. The first 20-30 mins of his set were acoustic & piano songs, which were unbelievable, and the rest of it was full band, and all those songs sounded HUGE. This is what musicians need to aspire to...and it doesn't hurt that he's one of the most sincere & laid back people we've worked with for Inklings.
5. Four Year Strong/I Am the Avalanche/This Is Hell/A Loss For Words tour
We saw this tour twice in California-- once at the Knitting Factory, once at a Veterans Hall. So different, both shows so solid.
Band I travelled the most/furthest for this year: You, Me, and Everyone We Know
Technically this should go to FYS/IATA/AL4W because we saw them in California...but YMAEWK gets it because I saw them 6 times, but not once in NYC. Also because of the pain-in-the-ass transportation issues coming home from most of those shows...like when I got home from our first shoot with them at 3:30am to find out I locked myself out of my apartment (I slept on the couch at work for an hour until Naomi took me in to sleep on her couch), or the time when there was no EZpass in the car we'd rented to go see them with The Dear Hunter and they tried to charge us an extra $100 for returning it late. Good times.
Best venue I went to in 08: The Electric Factory (Philly)
Worst Venue I went to in 08: Vibe Lounge (Long Island)-- aka Death Trap. I would like this place to get shut down asap...I always feel like I might die every time I go there, plus every band sounds TERRIBLE there. I worry that now that the Knitting Factory's gone/moved, MORE bands will play there :(
2009 has started off a little slow for Inklings, but have no fear, things will be picking up immediately!
Showing posts with label the graduate. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Monday, June 16, 2008
GRACIAS ... MERCI ... DANKA ... GRATSI
As Carrie said below, I will also have a more coherent blog after another coffee...OR a nap.
I can't thank everyone enough for coming out. The night was already complete with amazing performances by Lannen Fall, Socratic, and The Graduate. I can't tell you how much we appreciate all of those guys for playing and celebrating with us! It was so awesome to have my mom, brother/donation man, Bethany, roommates, upstairs mates, work friends, Carrie's bro and friends, Amena, Matt, Alex, Josh, Sean, Jamie, Carmelina, Pat, Bruuuce, and every single person who came. It was a wonderful way to celebrate 1 year! OK, so maybe a few too many soco & lime shots....ehhh nahh.
Happy for real birthday to my mom...Love You! (She rules!) Looking forward to posting the pictures in a few!
Carrie...oh yeah thank you for showing up too...and being the shit.
Here's a picture of my favorite part of The Graduate show:
as usual - lots of love,
naomi
I can't thank everyone enough for coming out. The night was already complete with amazing performances by Lannen Fall, Socratic, and The Graduate. I can't tell you how much we appreciate all of those guys for playing and celebrating with us! It was so awesome to have my mom, brother/donation man, Bethany, roommates, upstairs mates, work friends, Carrie's bro and friends, Amena, Matt, Alex, Josh, Sean, Jamie, Carmelina, Pat, Bruuuce, and every single person who came. It was a wonderful way to celebrate 1 year! OK, so maybe a few too many soco & lime shots....ehhh nahh.
Happy for real birthday to my mom...Love You! (She rules!) Looking forward to posting the pictures in a few!Carrie...oh yeah thank you for showing up too...and being the shit.
Here's a picture of my favorite part of The Graduate show:
as usual - lots of love,
naomi
THANK YOU
Thank you so so much to everyone who came out to the show last night to celebrate our birthday with us. We had a BLAST, and all the bands were amazing. Thanks to all our friends/roommates/family (Naomi's mom and brother, and my brother made it out for the occasion) for hanging out and dancing with us.
It was our first foray into the world of show promoting, so needless to say the day was a little hectic, but everything came together and the show ran pretty much on time. I apparently took a whole lot of pictures, which I'll be posting on our myspace soon.
I'm still in the process of waking up, so I'll probably have more coherent thoughts in a little while. If you liked Socratic last night, you'll love the interview with them that we'll be posting in the next day or so.
I'll leave you with some kind words from competitive eater Crazy Legs Conti, who we invited to the party but was unable to attend:
Carrie and Naomi,
Thank you for the invite and congrats on your one year birthday! That cupcake should be the size of 52 regular ones.
I will miss out on your party due to the rigors of the competitive eating circuit. Eater X and I will be doing back-to-back contests in hot dogs and strawberry shortcake this weekend. I will raise my 1st pound of strawberry shortcake in your honor (and then hopefully eat nine more pounds for my personal best in the dessert discipline). Consider that an omen - inklings.tv needs to be around for a decade.
Enjoy the party I hope its a night you'll never forget, but might not remember (open bars tend to do that to me).
Eat All You Can,
Crazy Legs Conti
-Carrie
It was our first foray into the world of show promoting, so needless to say the day was a little hectic, but everything came together and the show ran pretty much on time. I apparently took a whole lot of pictures, which I'll be posting on our myspace soon.
I'm still in the process of waking up, so I'll probably have more coherent thoughts in a little while. If you liked Socratic last night, you'll love the interview with them that we'll be posting in the next day or so.
I'll leave you with some kind words from competitive eater Crazy Legs Conti, who we invited to the party but was unable to attend:
Carrie and Naomi,Thank you for the invite and congrats on your one year birthday! That cupcake should be the size of 52 regular ones.
I will miss out on your party due to the rigors of the competitive eating circuit. Eater X and I will be doing back-to-back contests in hot dogs and strawberry shortcake this weekend. I will raise my 1st pound of strawberry shortcake in your honor (and then hopefully eat nine more pounds for my personal best in the dessert discipline). Consider that an omen - inklings.tv needs to be around for a decade.
Enjoy the party I hope its a night you'll never forget, but might not remember (open bars tend to do that to me).
Eat All You Can,
Crazy Legs Conti
-Carrie
Saturday, October 6, 2007
"Beer is my gum."
Last night, by some twist of fate, Naomi and Sue and I made it in time to catch The Graduate's whole set at their free Knitting Factory show. We dashed in at 7, expecting to catch the last 2 songs, but as a pleasant surprise they hadn't started yet.
Sometimes we try to be cool at shows, so we don't sing along or dance or anything...last night was not one of those nights. We were rocking out like morons, and I think I actually hit Naomi when they played Justified. We discussed it later, and we don't think that anyone cares about any band succeeding as much as we care about The Graduate succeeding.
We went to say hi to some of the guys after the show, and Max informed me that someone had put the inklings acoustic version of Sit & Sink on youtube...I checked it out today, and it turns out that it actually has more hits on youtube than it's gotten on our own website. I just posted newly re-edited versions of Sit & Sink, and also Monty Are I's Between the Sheets video. The sound should be a lot better, and it looks nicer, too. Check it out!
Then, who should we run into at the Knitting Factory, but other friends of Inklings, Tokyo Rose! As it turned out, they were playing in the Tap Bar later, so we caught up with them and stuck around to catch their set. There was more dancing, more good music and more good times.
The Graduate was raffling off a brand new guitar, and Naomi actually ended up winning it!...but by some shady turn of events, it got stolen while we were watching Tokyo Rose. Knitting Factoryyyyy! (you can't see this, but I'm shaking my fist.) It's a real bummer, Naomi and Sue and I were going to start a band! (Sue plays bass, and I have a tambourine shaped like a star.)
In other Inklings news, we have a new collaboration that we're super excited about! We're going to be launching a west coast branch to the site, with photographer Jered Scott. His pictures are awesome, so we're psyched to have him doing some text interviews and taking some sweet pics! Tonight he caught up with MxPx and Lakes, so keep your eyes peeled for that stuff to surface on the site sometime soon! Also, it gives me and Naomi an excuse to go to California to shoot something and say what's up to Jered...New York gets cold in the winter.
Stay awesome.
-Carrie
Sometimes we try to be cool at shows, so we don't sing along or dance or anything...last night was not one of those nights. We were rocking out like morons, and I think I actually hit Naomi when they played Justified. We discussed it later, and we don't think that anyone cares about any band succeeding as much as we care about The Graduate succeeding.
We went to say hi to some of the guys after the show, and Max informed me that someone had put the inklings acoustic version of Sit & Sink on youtube...I checked it out today, and it turns out that it actually has more hits on youtube than it's gotten on our own website. I just posted newly re-edited versions of Sit & Sink, and also Monty Are I's Between the Sheets video. The sound should be a lot better, and it looks nicer, too. Check it out!
Then, who should we run into at the Knitting Factory, but other friends of Inklings, Tokyo Rose! As it turned out, they were playing in the Tap Bar later, so we caught up with them and stuck around to catch their set. There was more dancing, more good music and more good times.
The Graduate was raffling off a brand new guitar, and Naomi actually ended up winning it!...but by some shady turn of events, it got stolen while we were watching Tokyo Rose. Knitting Factoryyyyy! (you can't see this, but I'm shaking my fist.) It's a real bummer, Naomi and Sue and I were going to start a band! (Sue plays bass, and I have a tambourine shaped like a star.)
In other Inklings news, we have a new collaboration that we're super excited about! We're going to be launching a west coast branch to the site, with photographer Jered Scott. His pictures are awesome, so we're psyched to have him doing some text interviews and taking some sweet pics! Tonight he caught up with MxPx and Lakes, so keep your eyes peeled for that stuff to surface on the site sometime soon! Also, it gives me and Naomi an excuse to go to California to shoot something and say what's up to Jered...New York gets cold in the winter.
Stay awesome.
-Carrie
Monday, June 18, 2007
day one: two thumbs up!
So, yesterday was our first shoot for Inklings. Naomi and I were both excited and prepared-- we were up until 2 Friday night prepping for the day. We had a bunch of cool spots picked out in a park about 2 blocks from the Knitting Factory, and we had been set up there since 1, sitting there and getting some tans. Unfortunately, mother nature decided to rain on our parade.
In the 5 minutes that it took us to walk from the park to the venue to meet up with The Graduate, the sky turned from blue to black. We were partway to the park with the guys when we decided to turn back. So they headed back to the venue while Naomi and I ran back to the park to get the rest of our equipment before it got rained on. Let me tell you, there's nothing like a 4 block run in the rain while carrying 100 lbs worth of camera equipment!
Luckily, we'd found a cafe nearby while we were scouting out the park on Friday, and they let us get out of the rain and shoot in there. The guys in The Graduate were very understanding, and Matt, Max and Corey met us over at the cafe for the interview. I have to say, I'm so psyched that we got to shoot with these guys before they blow up (which I'm 100% sure that they will, because they're phenomenal.) They played us an acoustic version of Sit & Sink, which was so good you'll probably poop your pants when you watch it.
A few minutes later, Monty Are I came in for some tuna melts (also, an interview). I think interviewing them really legitified our legitness. We talked mostly about red bull, but also about Warped Tour, Rhode Island and Hootie, among other things. They also played us a couple acoustic songs, which will be posted along with their interview later this week! Check out the videos section of the site for a little sneak peek.
We had to rush to make it to the show in time for The Graduate (we did unfortunately miss 1997) but we ran in about 45 seconds before they started so it worked out. The entire show was great-- Naomi and I hung out in the back and danced the whole time.
After the show I was chatting with Matt from New Atlantic (who we were also supposed to
shoot with yesterday, but because of the weather and schedule changes we were all pressed for time and it just didn't work out. Hopefully we'll reschedule) when Naomi joined us and he tricked her into thinking he was in The Audition. She fell for it, and for some reason so did I, despite the fact that Matt and I had just finished a discussion about New Atlantic's set. Sorry Matt, we seriously do know what band you're in.
So despite the fact that almost everything that could have gone wrong, did, (mostly weather-wise) we couldn't be happier, and can't wait to get the interviews up for all to see! Huuuuuge thanks to Sue for helping us shoot all day! We will try our damnedest to get Monty Are I up by this weekend, and The Graduate up by next weekend.
-Carrie
In the 5 minutes that it took us to walk from the park to the venue to meet up with The Graduate, the sky turned from blue to black. We were partway to the park with the guys when we decided to turn back. So they headed back to the venue while Naomi and I ran back to the park to get the rest of our equipment before it got rained on. Let me tell you, there's nothing like a 4 block run in the rain while carrying 100 lbs worth of camera equipment!
Luckily, we'd found a cafe nearby while we were scouting out the park on Friday, and they let us get out of the rain and shoot in there. The guys in The Graduate were very understanding, and Matt, Max and Corey met us over at the cafe for the interview. I have to say, I'm so psyched that we got to shoot with these guys before they blow up (which I'm 100% sure that they will, because they're phenomenal.) They played us an acoustic version of Sit & Sink, which was so good you'll probably poop your pants when you watch it.
A few minutes later, Monty Are I came in for some tuna melts (also, an interview). I think interviewing them really legitified our legitness. We talked mostly about red bull, but also about Warped Tour, Rhode Island and Hootie, among other things. They also played us a couple acoustic songs, which will be posted along with their interview later this week! Check out the videos section of the site for a little sneak peek.
We had to rush to make it to the show in time for The Graduate (we did unfortunately miss 1997) but we ran in about 45 seconds before they started so it worked out. The entire show was great-- Naomi and I hung out in the back and danced the whole time.
After the show I was chatting with Matt from New Atlantic (who we were also supposed to
shoot with yesterday, but because of the weather and schedule changes we were all pressed for time and it just didn't work out. Hopefully we'll reschedule) when Naomi joined us and he tricked her into thinking he was in The Audition. She fell for it, and for some reason so did I, despite the fact that Matt and I had just finished a discussion about New Atlantic's set. Sorry Matt, we seriously do know what band you're in.
So despite the fact that almost everything that could have gone wrong, did, (mostly weather-wise) we couldn't be happier, and can't wait to get the interviews up for all to see! Huuuuuge thanks to Sue for helping us shoot all day! We will try our damnedest to get Monty Are I up by this weekend, and The Graduate up by next weekend.
-Carrie
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