Post Battle of the Bands

I'd like to thank the band for coming out and rockin even though we didn't even know what we were doing! It was a blast! And if we can get a gig at KU (and Brandon promised), I hope we'll do it again, with the same people.

Thanks to Amanda, Rachel Moon, Sean, Justin, Heather, Felecia, Mackinzie S., Anne, Daniel, Rachel Mangold, Andrew, Allen, Micah, Dan, Sarah, etc. (and Mom. Who came, listened to us, left, and came back at the end to see if we would win or not, which was pretty cool of her), who came to see Unread and cheer us on. I must say, we had the most crowd participation (go us...) due to the fact that the people we knew decided to mosh. Its so weird to see your friends moshing to a song your singing. I'm usually the dancing-headbanging-screaming-idoit-at-concerts leader (ok...I'm almost always the leader - though sometimes Mariha helps), and today...well...Felecia did a wonderful job of taking my place (seeing as I was on stage and all). I did attempt to make a moshing group later on during the only other group there who had songs that were mosh-worthy (Nice job Loving Violence), but the dacing/headbanging/air guitaring died quickly for reasons I don't understand other than terror of looking like an idiot. The only time you look like an idiot dancing at a place like that is when your all alone. There were 4 of us. Come on. I went to a concert that was an hour and a half long, and there were TWO of us dancing and jumping the whole time. And we two just kept on dancing... Whatever...

Anyways. Unread did alright. Due to the lack of people knowing what was going on backstage, our whole performance was kinda...messed up in ways we could not control...so see...I ran off to the bathroom, Connie asked who was MCing and the band had decided that we wanted one of our backstage people to intro us. Everyone thought that MC meant, who was intro-ing. So they point to Micah, and Connie is like "You guys need to go." And they were all like "Dude! Our other singer is missing!" So I come back and they are all freaking out cause Connie was telling them they had to go on right then, and it was time to get started and I had gone missing. Apparently, we weren't really supposed to start yet. I dunno why Connie thought that a little Sophomore in high school was MCing the entire night (the boy looks like he's 15), but she sent him out there and we had to start. So we went out, and the real MC was still out in the lobby. But hey, backstage was yelling at us to go, so we went.

The drummers amp wasn't on. The amps up front were so quiet Mariha and I couldn't hear anything we were singing. And Erics mic wasn't even on. And Jacobs mic was on, but wasn't hooked up to the amps (we could have asked them to fix it after the first song, but I wasn't sure if we were supposed to running the amps or what the heck was up, so we just went on. Should have just yelled at someone). It was all screwed up. And since we weren't supposed to start, they didn't even turn off the house lights for a long time so we were just singing away. And then....this one was my fault...so the first song we sang, we'd only ever gone over like, 4 times.

So I'm singing the first verse by meself, and I totally blanked. I started singing, got to the end of the second line and went "I can't remember anything else." and just started making up lyrics. Poor Eric. I wrecked his best song. It really was a good song. Too bad I didn't say anything that was even close to what it was supposed to say.

*sigh* Mariha looked like she was terrified and couldn't really get into it, whereas I was having a freakin blast, even if stuff kept screwing up. So it was a little unbalanced. But for the most part, we thought we did good. Especially for 4 practices. We practiced together about...eehhh....around 10 hours. Weeheee...

I'm rambling now. Sorry....and sorry to all the people who couldn't make it. You didn't miss out on much though. We rocked of course (hahahahahahaaaa), and Deep Structure was good, as was Loving Violence. Other than that....the rest of it was kinda boring.

-Shell
p.s We didn't win. Some random band that came from O.K., that we had to wait for 20 for them to show up, who went last and didn't see anyone else play (all the other bands were there the whole time), who already had a record label, who had their own light show, who no one knew, who didn't go to school here, and who sang country music won. I think this peeved everyone a lot. They tied with some other band so the judges had to vote. I wanna know who the other band was...