2008 Woodie Awards
TREOS rock afterHOURS
Juliana Schatz
Issue date: 7/3/07 Section: The Inside
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But while they may have had the opportunity to play large venues, playing Northeastern is a "fun treat" for the band, said bassist Brendan Brown.
"No matter where else we play, big or small, even when we play Avalon, we always know the most people when we play at afterHOURS," he said. "I love it, it's like practice."
Kathleen Pendelton, a middler history major, attended the performance. She said she also went to last year's TREOS show with a friend from another school.
There were several students from outside the city who attended the concert, including Brianne Roger, a junior media production major at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn.
"They actually came down to my school's spring concert. I first saw them a few years ago, and I've been playing them on my radio show back at school," Roger said.
TREOS played a set filled with new and older music. The band started the show with "Broadcast Quality," an up-tempo crowd pleaser which fans rocked out to. The audience, filled with fans and friends of the band, enthusiastically responded to the music.
TREOS performed material from their upcoming album, The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi. New songs included "Saturnus" and "Smoke & Mirrors," both of which were well-received.
After the audience was left chanting "one more!" TREOS returned to play "This Armistice," which was most akin to the TREOS sound: hard rock sound, with melodic and passionate vocals.
TREOS has garnered a large fan-base by performing on major tours nationwide. They most recently played on MTV's $2 Bill Tour and the Taste of Chaos Tour with bigger acts including The Deftones.
In addition to providing a familiar crowd, Northeastern's campus is the origin of the band. Former Northeastern students bassist Brown, keyboardist and guitarist Nate Patteson and guitarist and vocalist Alex Bars. Bars reflected on the band's beginning.
"I think I was eating a grilled chicken and cheese," he said of the day at Levine Marketplace when he and Brown met drummer, Andrew Joseph Cook.
Cook, Brown and Bars each shared several semesters as students at Northeastern before the band's success took off and they were not able to continue their studies. Together with Patteson, also from Massachusetts, they practiced and played on campus.
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