Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at Best Buy Theater in NYC
A Day to Remember are still selling out venues and before you could blink, their NYC date at Best Buy Theater was sold out. Thank you online ticket brokers, otherwise I would have failed in getting my sister tickets for her birthday.
Support for the night were Chunk!, No Captain Chunk! and Of Mice and Men. Chunk! earned my love being they are from France. Do I need more? Honestly, they were a great opener and fit the vibe of the crowd. Their music is maybe two years behind on the American pop-punk/post-hardcore scene, but a great effort is made and presented. Good fun and yes, I danced a little when they did their cover of Ke$ha's "We R Who We R." I mean, when else will you hear a Frenchman emo scream 'glitter?'
Of Mice and Men sounded just fine, but my sister and I took a break and sat right outside the venue's doors while sipping on Jack & Cokes. Their current release The Flood I had listened to a few times when it came out and wish I had revisited it as I hadn't heard it live yet. Singer Austin Carlie's screams would have kept me around if I was more familiar with the tunes.
Watching people in the space outside the doors was fun enough. From band whore-wannabes, teenage 'bro' dudes and then the older industry friends there for just the one band where all around. I must also note, on purchase of my second Jack & Coke a young gentleman of probably no more than 15 told me my drink looked delicious. I informed him he has to wait for college and he agreed while making his purchase of water. Does that count as being hit on no matter how creepy?
ADTR needs to remember - you save the confetti for the end! Second song in and the confetti guns were blasted, officially starting the party. Their set was solid and they sounded great. It was song after song, giving fans what they wanted between their more catchy tunes, a couple slower ones and also some on the heavier side for ADTR. A guy dressed as an Angry Bird came out to shoot tshirts into the crowd and I thought that was cool and bigger balloons were tossed into the crowd for fun.
A little bit on the cheesey side, but when you have a huge venue to deck out, how can you not do silly things like this? They did an acoustic song or two before heading into the encore, which singer Jeremy McKinnon even questioned who started it. "Downfall of Us All" ended the night to no surprise, but to my surprise were two fights that broke out one between two dudes and the other between two chicks. Why? Silly kids - you had this great set presented for you, enjoy it. I know I did.
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