This past Saturday i went to see one of my favorite bands, Algernon Cadwallader play in Louisville, KY. We began our journey around 6pm, but first we had to pick up a strange boy to bring along. He said he had his own clothing line, and smoked cigarettes like they were going out of style, but i enjoyed his backseat company.
Before arriving at the venue, we stopped and had falafel at a nicely named restaurant 'Falafel House.' I thought to myself, "kind of like waffle house, but with falafel." I had never had this type of food, it was delicious! The russian waitress also brought me a Coke, made with real sugar, in a glass bottle. "How fancy is that?" i also thought. All sorts of new things were comming my way.
After filling our bellies we drove down to the venue to meet a hoard of kids in tight jeans and band tees, smoking cigarettes and texting quietly. We stood outside in circles, waited on the backseat stranger to finish his cigarette, and headed inside. We paid our 5 bucks to the burly red headed boy and crowded into the main room where the bands played.
A really great hardcore-ish type band played first, Mountain Asleep. They play around the Lexington area a lot, but this was my first time seeing them, it was great! Stage dives were comming from left and right, i loved it. The crowd always seems to make the show a lot better.
Finally, Algernon Cadwallader played. Everyone piled up and waited patiently as the band tuned and made silly remarks into the microphones. Thier drummer was insane, id never seen a person behave so silly. Once the music started, we all became a room full of chanting, happy children. We danced, we high-fived, and we stage dived. It seemed like the set ended just as soon as it had began. I hurried to the merch table, bought my 8 dollar T-shirt and made it outside to join the circles of cigarette smoke again. My cheeks were red, my throat was sore, and I felt stoked on life.
"Stage dives, or GTFO"
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