Contrary to belief not everyone was watching the New Moon movie Nov. 20; about 1,800 people piled into the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach to witness three amazing bands perform.
The All American Rejects, Taking Back Sunday and Anberlin drew in a mixed of crowd of teenagers, young adults, adults, and even some elderly.
Opening Act
Anberlin opened up the show with songs such as “A day late” and a cover of the 80’s song “True Faith” by New Order. They also performed, “Godspeed”, “Paperthin Hymn”, “A Whisper and a Clamor”, “Disappear”, and “The Unwinding cable car”.
The band hails from Winter Haven, Fla., and formed in 2002. They finished up their set with, “Feel good drag” the first single off of their first major studio album, “New Surrender”. Only a handful of audience sang along, but by the end of their set it was evident that they had gained more fans.
Co-headlinersTaking Back Sunday conquered the stage next and exceeded all expectations, having seen them live at Projekt Revolution in 2007.
Taking Back Sunday’s new guitarist and back-up vocalist Matt Fazzi was the best surprise of the night by performing with a medical walking boot on his left foot the whole night. He fractured his foot during a tour in Dublin, Ireland.
They opened up their set with songs such as “Cute without the ‘E’” and “A decade under the influence”.
Lead singer, Adam Lazzara took time to mention that he used to live in High Point, N.C. Every time he said North Carolina he got cheers from some N.C. natives in the audience.
“I’m just gonna say that all night long,” Lazzara said.
At one point, Lazzara stood at the tip of the stage and announced that a girl only a mere few feet away had been on a cell phone for two songs.
“Honey, how can you hear anything, it’s so loud in here,” he said as he banged the microphone on the stage. He also pointed out two girls in the front row who were texting during a song.
The band performed songs from their latest album, “New Again”. The whole audience sung along to the single, “Sink into me”. A mosh pit was formed when they performed “Lonely, Lonely”
Lazzara, Fazzi and bass player Matt Rubano shared quirky comments with fans. Rubano insisted that “If you can’t swim, you fail at life.”
Headliners
The headliners of the tour, All American Rejects, rushed the stage with lights beaming in every direction and young girls screaming for life.
The All American rejects kicked-off with their most known song in the world, “Move along”.
Lead singer, Tyson Ritter seemed to be the pop idol of every 16 year olds dream with his attire of white jeans, wet hair and gold and blue with a hint of glitter body paint on his bare chest.
Their performance of “Dirty Little secret” even caused a commotion, when a young girl in the front row tried gripping a hold of Ritter as he sung his lungs out.
The left hand side of the audience was treated to guitar picks being thrown at them. Some tug of wars happened to catch one lone pick.
The audience was elated when Ritter stood on the barricade for the acoustic version of the song, “Mona Lisa”
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