After a 4 hours of driving to the Kool Haus and about 2 hours waiting in line with all the screaming teenage girls we got into the venue just as Versa Emerge was playing. I had never seen them live although I love her voice on A Day to Remembers song "If it Means A Lot To You." They had a lot of energy and she could sure sing, they put on a great performance. At the start the crowd was not into it with many failed crowd surfing attempts.
A Rocket to the Moon was next, I saw them in Montreal in the Summer and thought they were absolutely terrible and their singer could not hit half the notes. As soon as they hit the stage they started with an AC/DC classic "They Shook me All Night Long", I have to say they impressed me by improvment. The singer Nick Santino was hitting every note although he could put more energy into his live performance. They played some songs I knew and the crowd really enjoyed them that after I saw a fair amount of people heading back to their merch table.
The Maine came on next. They entered to a black out with a bass driven sample to get the crowd ready. They played the first couple notes of "I Must Be Dreaming" then the lights went on and the crowd just screamed (mostly the teenage girls at the sight of John Ohh) After "I Must be Dreaming" They played an old Def Leppard track "Pour Some Sugar On Me." They continued to play their set with "Everything I Ask For", "The Way We Talk" "Into Your Arms." Then they played an "old" song that they never put on their CD called "Life Life This" They ended the night with "Girls Do What They Want." At the bridge two guys were crowd surfing and the singer John called them up on the stage to sing with him.
Cobra Starship was next. I usually don't like them so I didn't really watch them all that much, but when I did they impressed me. They have amazing stage presence and for the kind of band that they are really sounded good. Again, I can't really review on them.
Boys Like Girls finally was on to end the night. They opened with a Black Eyed Peas cover of "Ive Got A Feelin'" then hit it right into "Love Drunk." As the show went on I paid close attention to their drummer, he is really talented and I think was holding that whole show together, I found the singer didn't sound the same and was missing some notes. They had pretty good stage presence but it seemed like they looked bored. I left halfway through the set because I, myself was bored of their show.
All in all I think what made this show for me was the opening bands!
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