Sep. 30 - Live Music at St. Francis
This year I have actually made an attempt to participate in student activities. I joined film club and I went to a bunch of the crap going on for homecoming week (a week in which I don't think anyone came home). And there seems to be a serious problem with all the events on campus, no one who isn't part of SGA comes. The handful of people outside of SGA that come tend to be complete assholes. There are people at St Francis who are reasonably cool, and there are of course a lot of d-bags, but there is a special group of people who stand out as complete and total assholes that always seem to come to these things and make it miserable. The prime example was tonight.
Tonight on campus, for free, a band called Recycled Percussion played. These guys have been called one of the best live acts touring today for a reason, they put on a great show and if they are coming to your town/school you should go check them out. This is what it looked like when I got there, well after the doors opened and not long before they were supposed to start playing.
hooray camera phones!
I almost left, I wasn't about to spend an hour or two in a crowd of less than a dozen people from SGA watching some band I never heard of. The only reason I stayed was because I was standing outside and met one of the band members who was a little pissed off (and reasonably so) because some jackass student came up to him and asked him if something was going on tonight, believing that he was a student. Ironically later I was mistaken for a member of the band, so St. Francis students might be retarded. Anyway, the guy convinced me to stick around and it really was a great show, and about 50 or so people showed up. But the person standing behind me was the biggest asshole I know at St Francis. This is the emo wanna-be-punk who wears his sisters jeans and goes around telling people he is hardcore and that he cant watch movies like Fight Club because its like they are about his real life (the fact that anyone buys that shit makes me weep for all of humanity) and for some fucking reason I have had like 9 classes with him and had to deal with his shit constantly.
So basically events at St Francis: 90% of the student body don't come because they are too fucking jaded to think that anything other than binge drinking to forget that they are catholic could be fun and the other 10% are SGA members and assholes who just want to talk about how much they liked whatever shitty band they saw at warped tour when they came to deer creek or verizon music center or whatever the fuck that shitty venue is called these days. I know I've been known to make fun of... everything, and make it known what i think about something, but I do make exceptions, and one of them is that I don't make fun of live music while its playing, especially when its free, and especially when its good. And I make comments for humorous effect or because they are how I actually feel, not because I think it makes me cooler in any way, or its what my friends want to hear.
Fuck this School.
I originally wanted to make this post mostly about the band, but this sort of shit has been bothering me all week.
So. Yes. The band! They are called Recycled Percussion, as i said above, and a very accurate name it is. Its 3 drummers and a DJ and everything they play on is basically useless shit, mostly buckets, broken drums, themselves, plumbing parts, the stage, fire extinguishers etc.. And they are rightly called one the best live show touring today because their show is truly alive. A lot of performance to accompany their music, the stage was basically one giant drum set so there was a lot of movement, lots of them fucking with each other, lots of drumsticks being thrown (and often dropped) at a few points in the show the stage was littered with drumsticks. Their final number was played entirely with circular grinders on sheet metal strapped to the stage supports, shooting sparks everywhere. it was the ultimate combination of music and pyrotechnics as they were made with the same instrument. So anyway, if they are in your town and you are in the mood for something really different go check them out.
Posted by Colin Gray
