Modern Baseball Show!!!

 

 This past Thursday I got to go to the Modern Baseball concert here in Philly, and it was so great. The only complaint I have is that they didn't play How Do You Tell a Girl You Want to Kiss Her which is just a fabulous song and I probably could have shouted it out, but I didn't, because I wasn't thinking anything through because I was on that euphoric concert rush (really bad run-on, I know)

 

There was four bands that played before Modern Baseball and it was around 10pm when Modern Baseball finally came on (which normally I wouldn't care about but I had school the next day). The two that really stuck out to me were Crying and Foxing. Crying (pictured above - awful quality I'M SORRY) stuck out because the way the lead singer holds the microphone is really different - she grasps it with both hands and then leans over it, singing with her wavering high pitched voice. I had a really hard time hearing her voice though because the guitar/drums were really amplified and drowned it out for the most part. I enjoyed their set but I don't think they're the kind of band I'd listen to.  

 

Foxing was another band that played and I really enjoyed their show/music. The lead singers voice captures so much emotion (a more painful, frusterated emotion) and when he dances around the stage he kind of portrays someone that just went through a really bad break up and is trying to get it all out. ALSO he would pull out his trumpet randomly and play along with the band and it was so great and perfect I couldn't stop smiling.

 

 In between sets they were playing music on the speakers, and for the most part it was just mumbly punk music that you couldn't really make out, but at one point they played Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" and everybody went crazy and people pulled out their lighters and other people were crowd surfing (really not that safe now that I think about that combination), and this one guy standing near us jumped into his friends arms and started shouting "I'm flying Jack! I'm flying!". I wish they had played more recognizable music between bands because then I think it would have made the wait seem shorter.

Finally Modern Baseball came on and I was so excited and my friend was so excited cause it was actually happening! When they came on I think they felt the restlessness of the audience and so they didn't talk much but said something along the lines of "We're going to play as many songs as we can, loud and fast" and then they just broke into song. My favorite song that they played was probably Tears Over Beers and it almost felt like I was listening to the song for the first time because the performance felt so charged and powerful. 

I'm so happy I got to go, and going made me realise how I need to get out to more concerts because they make you feel that adrenaline rush that compares to nothing else. 

I'm sorry if this post is scrambled or confusing but there was just so much that writing this I feel a bit frazzled trying to figure out what I should include. 

Have a great week!

A

(oh at one point my glasses got kicked off by a crowd surfer and I just immediately dropped to the ground and started moving my hands around looking for them. Right as a grabbed them someone stepped on my hand which freaked me out because had I been two seconds late my glasses would have been crushed and the rest of the concert would've sucked because I would've been completely blind. But hey they didn't get crushed so yay! )