STORY TIME when i showed up at two for the bit concert on saturday there was alr one person there anygays that’s not the important context here the important context here is that at one point one of the openers (EDIT: chase petra) was talking about like. (paraphrasing here) “if you bump into someone, you’re acquaintances; if you step on someone’s toes, you’re friends; if you end up with someone’s hair in your mouth? that’s dating.” i know these two things seem entirely unrelated HOWEVER basically at the same time both i and this other person like made defensive gestures around our hair, idk how to explain it, like, tucking loose strands under a hood or whatever. anygays that was very cool and i like totally would have said something in person but i completely and utterly forgot
highlights from the bit/cirecs concert last night (boston 2022-12-10)
this post got really long so i’m sticking it under a read more :D
arriving just before 2 pm for 4:30 doors/5:30 show. yes it was around 30 to 33 °F (-1 to 1 °C) the whole time we were out there
meeting some awesome people who also showed up several hours early :D
making up fake plots for the movie posters outside the venue
successfully convincing people to appreciate cry baby
old soul and nervous dater during each other’s sets
hunter wearing a short skirt and a bears in trees shirt (the koi one) as a tunic over long sleeves, absolute fashion icon
the little bulbasaur on genevieve’s pedalboard !!
*holds up cardboard cutout of keanu reeves’ face* “welcome to the stage keanu reeves!! i have to set him down because i cannot play guitar with him in my hands but just know that he is happy to be here :)” *sets him back down on the stand* *he immediately falls over* (off mic) “oh fuck” (in mic) “sorry keanu. he’ll live.”
lighting design went SO HARD during josslyn (and tbh the entire set)
getting bonked in the head (only a little bit and i was fine lol)
“you’ve got something to apologize for? well you can do that now!”
callum climbing off the stage into the crowd literally right in front of me during heaven sent
“i think it’s way too hot for me to be wearing this boston— boston red sox hat. i’m just going to take it off— i’m not giving it to you, it’s mine— i’m just gonna take it off, but hopefully i, i still represent boston with it off, yeah?” *pulls off beanie to reveal “BOSTON” written on their head*
“anyway, the moral of the story is that, i’m gonna keep going ’cause i gotta stall time while we swap guitars, and the moral of that story is you just gotta keep talking,”
(monotone voice) “do you like our outfits we just love the red sox” *mimes swinging a baseball bat*
callum saying the feel so empty intro one song too early
“now you’re meant to say that thing what’s on the paper” “oh and was that— was it— did you do this?” “i didn’t do it, but i do know what it means— this is an oblivious to everyone because they can’t see what that is” (the like, three people standing at the front between iain and callum, myself included: “we can see it!”) *launches into the feel so empty intro for real this time*
(someone in the audience: “i love you!”) “what was that, did you say you love us? you don’t—” (same person: “i do!”) “we love you too, honestly, because— because this is the biggest show we’ve played outside the UK, ever, and you guys are actually turning up for us, and it’s incredible, ’cause we— we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you guys. so, we owe you guys everything, honestly, thank you so much for being here” (person standing next to me: “we’re so proud of you”) “thank you :)”
splitting the crowd in half during i’m doing push ups to do a call and response sorta thing !!!
iain taking someone’s BeReal from the stage. the notif had gone off like ten hours earlier
“so this next song is about having undiagnosed ADHD! i didn’t know that when i wrote this song” (the audience then is incredibly energetic and singing along super loud during good rhymes for bad times)
“you can’t have an emo show without a bad bit— sad bit”
iain during array of light.
little cellist project!!!
hunter and brooke sneaking into the crowd (right behind us!!) during the encore
“and lastly we’ve said again— we’ve said it before i will say it again— if we weren’t here—” “you weren’t here” “—wait that’s the wrong one innit” “yeah” “if you weren’t here, right now, and we were playing? it would just be a rehearsal”
the whole audience singing the chorus of reverberate, in unison, too early, and the bears looking at us endearingly like wtf
saying hi to the bears afterwards (they signed my tour poster and the setlist !!! and commented that my makeup was matching with iain’s !!!)
