Ser Soul Ownage last night!!!!
Lots of face ownage last night, including us (Leith, Gabe, Giavanna, Chris) and nearly everyone who showed up. We just looked at each other in disbelief for half the show. Heard plenty of "this could be the best show ever" all night long! According to Gavin, it was the best show of the tour. Tim also mentioned that people were "eating it up". I feel bad for everyone who missed this show, everything about it was phenomenal: Lights (Ellis D got some major props from Leith!!), vocals, sound system, club room, no security (people packing bowls all show long) etc.
This show was the inverse of the typical Breakfast crowd, where the audience peaks in the first set then tapers off after the setbreak and throughout the second set. The show started with only a few people watching and continued to build audience momentum (alongside the outpour of energy from the band) all night long. By the Buquebus encore, the entire dance floor was shaking and raging. Gabe and I gave out about 70 samplers during the show and people could just not understand why we were giving away free music of such a powerful band. Having a crew of 5 solid .inforumers definitely helped initiate the tone for the crowd (example: getting everyone onboard for the Buquebus "hey hey hey" bounce, etc.). The effect of a few crazy .info dancers (Leith, Gabe) was almost like seeing the wave at stadium events, as the crazy screaming and dance moves were quickly imitated and seen rippling across the crowd.
Though the room was huge, it never seemed like it was empty (like we\'ve heard from those in attendance at Premier music hall). Must have been due to a receptive crowd throughout the room. Probably one of the best rooms the band has ever played in (someone on the PB crew mentioned that it completely blows Premier Music Hall out of the water).
Dave Peck definitely would have flipped out watching the band play on 6 large screen tvs situated around the bar.
