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| From | "*Bill Holmes*" <bholmes_fm@msn.com> |
| Subject | The Format |
| Date | Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:32:53 -0500 |
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Did I miss the meeting on this band, or has no one mentioned them here?
Took my daughter to an all-ages show last night to see Yellowcard and there
were THREE opening acts. Two songs into the first one I was thinking it
would be a lonnnng niiiight as they had a "bleating sheep" singer and were
more intent on bouncing up and down playing 4/4 than they were with
songcraft or presentation. The second band had one or two passable songs but
weren't much better. I have already erased their names from my memory - even
my daughter and her friend weren't too impressed.
Then The Format hit the stage - they were fucking GREAT! Three guitars (or
two guitars and a piano, depending on the song) bass and drums...great
songs...good harmonies (led by a VERY strong lead singer)...hooks, melodies,
POWER POP! Good reaction from the crowd and a complete surprise to me after
the first two bands. I was smiling my ass off and wondered why I had not
heard of them before (although one of their songs must be on a TV show or
local college radio - "The First Single" - I recognized it immediately.
Yellowcard was clearly the crowd favorite - at least five "sing along" songs
that every kid in the crowd knew - and put on a tight, energetic show. They
were good musicians, had many good songs (the acoustic encore really proved
the vocal/guitar interplay thing), and a few too many F-bombs aside really
knew how to milk the crowd. They ROCKED the place HARD. I'll have to give my
daughter's CD another spin or three. They come off like a punk Kansas,
believe it or not, although that might be my knee-jerk reaction to a
skanking fiddle player.
Got the girls Yellowcard T-shirts, but I bought Format's INTERVENTIONS &
LULLABIES (Elektra) at the merch table for ME. Had I had it last year it
would have very likely made my list. Check it out.
Now to chip that ice off my driveway,
b
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