At the show on Saturday night (Dec. 5th) at the House of Blues in Anaheim, we got great photos and an interview with Bryce Avary of The Rocket Summer! Catharine’s photos above are awesome and we’re working on getting the VIDEO interview edited for all of you to see.
I wrote a full review on this tour for the show in LA on December 3rd (Forever the Sickest Kids/The Rocket Summer Duel Headline Double Feature Part I). Instead of writing another review about the same tour with the same line-up and same set list, I’m going to give you the highlights of the last night of the Cheap Date Tour:
Artist Vs. Poet:
I guess they played while we were getting the interview with Bryce Avary. Sorry, guys, I really wanted to see them 🙁
My Favorite Highway
Great ballad “The Chase”
“Getaway Car” is the Rocket-Summer-like pop rock song
Close with the great “Bigger Than Love” again
Sing It Loud
People go crazy for these dudes when they come on stage.
Bassist Nate Flynn still refuses to button his shirt closed.
During the opening song “Best Beating Heart” the band jump in time and the fans scream
While playing “Bite Your Lip,” even the keyboardist is jumping back and forth
The boys announce their new record Sugar Sweet coming soon
Pat’s laptop got stolen “So expect nudes soon. He has a fantastic tiny dick”
Sing It Loud plays another new slow song. “We don’t have a name for this song yet because we’re lazy” but the lyrics include “I’ll never stop loving you it’s time to let you know.”
The Rocket Summer
The first time The Rocket Summer came to California, they sold out Chain Reaction
Lots of love for Anaheim, CA, who has been supportive over the ten year of The Rocket Summer’s touring
The crowd in House of Blues was stoked and roudy, the pit packed shoulder to shoulder and everyone was dancing and singing along.
They played all the favorites from Do You Feel and a couple off his new EP You Gotta Believe plus, he can’t forget about “Brat Pack”
Bryce snuck to the back of the pit and the crowd made a circle for him to play an amazing cover of “Maps” by the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s. During the song, a ton of musicians from the night came on stage to sing along. Everyone’s face turned to the front stage and cameras went up like paparazzi.
Gold confetti rained on the crowd.
Awesome set.
Forever the Sickest Kids
The dudes of FTSK seemed just as stoked to be in Anaheim and they kept showing stuff like “You’re blowin’ my mind” and how we had decided that we “were gonna be the best crowd they’ve seen” and even sung “Oh Anaheim, Oh Anaheim” to the tune of “Oh Christmas Tree.”
Caleb claimed that when they play in Texas they have 15 crowd surfers per song so they challenged Anaheim to the same level of awesomeness. During the next song, Caleb kept count while kid after kid was thrown up and Caleb announced that we “beat the crap out of dallas for crowd surfers.”
One of the tech guys came on stage to fix something and was required to shake his booty at the crowd before he could do his job
A ton of people were there on their birthday but the FTSK guys decided they were gonna celebrate unbirthdays singing “boom shaka laka.”
Caleb often shouts “suck it!”
[…] A line-up so nice, we had to see it twice! Forever the Sickest Kids, The Rocket Summer, Sing it Loud, My Favorite Highway, and Artist Vs. Poet played in Hollywood last night, December 3rd, at the Avalon and the night was AWESOME. I’m going to attempt to give you the scoop without ruining out HUGE feature on Saturday (December 5th in Anaheim at the House of Blues Disney) where we get to do a video interviewing Bryce Avary of The Rocket Summer! (Forever the Sickest Kids/The Rocket Summer Duel Headline Double Feature Part II) […]
[…] Avary, the talent and brains of The Rocket Summer, took a few minutes before the last show of the Cheap Date Tour to chat with us. I got to talk to him about the beginnings of his band, his upcoming release, and […]