Walking into the festival grounds, we heard the tail end of We The Kings performing the music of Jimmy Eat World. I wish I had heard more. I've never really given We The Kings a listen, but they sounded pretty good doing Jimmy Eat World songs. Then again, Jimmy Eat World songs are pretty great in general, so that could've helped them out a bit, hah. We also heard a bit of Mercy Mercedes doing Midtown songs. I love Midtown, but I couldn't even tell that they were doing Midtown songs until they introduced themselves and I put two and two together. They're another band I've never really given the chance, but their performance of Midtown didn't really encourage me to do so. Although, I found this video and it doesn't sound half bad. The guitarist has an epic 2002-2003 pop punk voice.
From this point on, my friends and I stayed at The Break stage (which was next to Passion Brand, so we were able to see those bands, too) since that's where The Ataris and Anti-Flag would be going on. The Cab performed Queen on the Passion Brand stage and it wasn't too bad. Queen isn't the easiest band to do, so I have to give them a little credit there. He did forget some of the words, which was a downfall, but overall, it wasn't all that bad. I've heard good things about The Cab, so maybe I'll have to check out their music.
We caught Forever The Sickest Kids doing Avril Lavigne songs, which was quite possibly the worst thing I've ever heard. It was just terrible, really. He forgot the words to most of the songs and there were so many little girls around flailing their hair and screeching the words to the songs to top it off. I'm only 22, mind you... but being in that crowd made me feel pretty damn old. They also dressed like it was winter out. I know it was raining, but it was still about 60 degrees and a bit humid. Too humid for a ski vest. They ended their set with "Fat Lip" by Sum 41, which... well... wasn't Avril Lavigne? Unfortunately, I couldn't find pictures of any other band from Hoodwink yet, but here's a cool shot of FTSK. Of course this is after the singer took off his winter wear.
photo credit: Aaran Safai on Flickr
Danger Radio performed Britney Spears on the other stage, further from us. Now, I had no idea who they were before this performance. I have to admit, they were cute. They looked short and young and they dressed the part. I'm no Britney fan, but I didn't want to die during their set, so I was pleased, haha. I want to tell you they had good stage prescence, but I can't. I can tell you they had cute stage prescence. They were just a cute band. I don't know how else to explain it.
They ended and FINALLY, the moment I had been waiting for... The Ataris. I haven't seen these guys in years, so it made me feel 16 again (which matched the girl who was next to me, babbling about how she was such a big Misfits fan and how she saw No Doubt in 3rd grade). They did an amazing job, in my opinion. I'm not the biggest of Misfits fans, but I appreciate them. They're from Jersey, so I have to hand it to them there and they pretty much started the whole horror-punk thing and paved the way for tons of bands to follow in their footsteps. I loved the crowd's reaction to this set. The younger kids cleared out and wandered off to another stage (probably to watch New Found Glory or Sum 41) and what was left was a bunch of older people with beers in one hand and another pumping their fist into the air as they shouted the words along with them. They actually were told to play another song as well, which was amazing. They went with a Black Flag song... WHICH. WAS. AWESOME.
Unfortunately for me, Brokencyde performed a "Crunk'd set" after that. I don't know any of the songs they did. I just know it was too long for my liking. I think I twittered and checked my Facebook during their set.
Anti-Flag was on after them, performing The Clash. I may not know all of the words to every Clash song, but I love them and I'm happy it was Anti-Flag doing their songs because whereas no one can do The Clash justice, Anti-Flag came pretty goddamn close. They picked a good selection of songs and they have great stage performance. They're another band I haven't seen since I was about 16. I wish they played the festival. They would've been good to play in between Face to Face and Rise Against, I think. I was sort of rooting for them to play "Lost in the Supermarket", but they went with more upbeat songs like "White Riot", "London Calling" and "I Fought The Law", which is understandable. Also, this is the only Anti-Flag video I found on Youtube. Bad quality, but great performance.
After their set, it was over and we left. I'm glad I decided to go because I had never been to Bamboozle before and was iffy on it because of the scene nowadays, but since I had a few friends that were going already, I decided to give it a look. I was sold on Hoodwink from The Ataris and Anti-Flag. Bamboozle sold me on The Get Up Kids and The Ataris. I haven't seen The Get Up Kids since Skate and Surf 2002! That's a whole different blog, though. Maybe when I recap Saturday and Sunday. If I had this much to say about Hoodwink, I don't even know how much I'll have to say about those two days!
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