2008 Woodie Awards
Students mosh at Bayside show
Sean Leviashvili
Issue date: 3/17/08 Section: The Inside
AfterHOURS provided a haven for punk and hardcore rock fans alike Friday night.
Organized collaboratively by the Council for University Programs and Kappa Sigma, the concert featured Long Island-based band Bayside as the headlining act, the Homefront and Four Year Strong. Each band played for about 40 minutes in front of a crowd of nearly 200.
Bayside, which formed in 2000, has been touring nationally since the start.
Chris Guglielmo, Bayside's drummer of two years, said the band works well together, and as a former member of other bands he feels he's found his niche.
"I've always pushed myself to get where I had to be," he said. "Now I feel like I don't have to."
While Guglielmo said his band works well together, the three bands featured Friday do not customarily tour together, leaving some audience members uneasy about the combination.
"The first band that performed, the Homefront, was a much different genre than the other two," said Cheri Snedeker, a sophomore chemistry major. "[The coordinators] could have found a better act, but the last two meshed well together."
The Homefront took the stage with a two-minute bass solo, but once the lead singer began his screaming fit, the crowd formed a mosh pit, leaving one student with a bloody nose. The student was escorted out of afterHOURS by a security guard minutes after his injury became notieceable.
As the band performed their songs, which featured acoustic transitions, the crowd continued to cheer. The mosh pits disintegrated, temporarily.
Many of those who attended sang along with the band, word-for-word. Others, like Ryan Blake, a middler music industry major who had never listened to them before, said he found their sound appealing.
"I usually listen to jazz/funk music, bands like Zero7," Blake said. "But they're pretty tight for what they're going for."
Adam Sheppard said the band members succeeded in the way they incorporated their acoustics into the performance.
Organized collaboratively by the Council for University Programs and Kappa Sigma, the concert featured Long Island-based band Bayside as the headlining act, the Homefront and Four Year Strong. Each band played for about 40 minutes in front of a crowd of nearly 200.
Bayside, which formed in 2000, has been touring nationally since the start.
Chris Guglielmo, Bayside's drummer of two years, said the band works well together, and as a former member of other bands he feels he's found his niche.
"I've always pushed myself to get where I had to be," he said. "Now I feel like I don't have to."
While Guglielmo said his band works well together, the three bands featured Friday do not customarily tour together, leaving some audience members uneasy about the combination.
"The first band that performed, the Homefront, was a much different genre than the other two," said Cheri Snedeker, a sophomore chemistry major. "[The coordinators] could have found a better act, but the last two meshed well together."
The Homefront took the stage with a two-minute bass solo, but once the lead singer began his screaming fit, the crowd formed a mosh pit, leaving one student with a bloody nose. The student was escorted out of afterHOURS by a security guard minutes after his injury became notieceable.
As the band performed their songs, which featured acoustic transitions, the crowd continued to cheer. The mosh pits disintegrated, temporarily.
Many of those who attended sang along with the band, word-for-word. Others, like Ryan Blake, a middler music industry major who had never listened to them before, said he found their sound appealing.
"I usually listen to jazz/funk music, bands like Zero7," Blake said. "But they're pretty tight for what they're going for."
Adam Sheppard said the band members succeeded in the way they incorporated their acoustics into the performance.
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jp
posted 3/17/08 @ 11:54 AM EST
more like pop punk then punk. just because they wear black deosnt make them punk/hardcore. lyrics are still quite emo/bitchy.
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