Day Five- July 20th- YiFi- Charlotte, NC
Posted By: Aaron
This morning we had to wake up early to begin the trek to the Queen City of Charlotte. At least for those of us who are college aged and who consider 7am early. We packed up our junk after downing some egos and orange juice thanks to the kindness of our host Matt and his roommate Casey. It was good to see Matt and once again feel whole as a band as we still greatly miss him. Most of today was spent on a semi-grueling 8 hour drive. We only stopped twice for gas and food and thanks to my mom saved a lot of money by downing tuna kits for lunch. Thanks mom. It definitely does wear on us to ride in such cramped quarters but the pride of the gas saved “hardcore rock toughness” of doing so almost out weighs it. Don’t get me wrong though; its uncomfortable. As soon as God blesses us with the means for a van we will gladly step up. We arrived plenty early at Charlotte North to do sound checks and the like. This was definitely the smallest venue we will play. It is actually the back conference room of the office space of the church I worked in last summer. Nick (the youth pastor with whom I worked with last summer) did a great job of setting everything up and helping us get ready. It was a real small and intimate setting. We set up some lights and many of my friends from my last two summers began to arrive. Emerson played there best set yet and everyone was really having a good time. We sold a ton of merch and were just having a blast. Our set went decently well until we got to the Antidote and then the place exploded. As soon as the first synth notes rang out everyone started screaming and the crowd sang along till the very last note, it was awesome. The rest of the set went well and the energy was awesome. It was all in all just another great night. Afterwards there was a lot of hanging and talking and it was just a great intimate night of 60 or so people packed into a tiny room. Later team “Mymerson” headed over to Tambi’s house to spend then night. She is the church administrator and her son Josh is one of the teens I worked with last summer. They were really kind to cook us a ton of food and just basically spoil us, all in all, another great night.
This morning we had to wake up early to begin the trek to the Queen City of Charlotte. At least for those of us who are college aged and who consider 7am early. We packed up our junk after downing some egos and orange juice thanks to the kindness of our host Matt and his roommate Casey. It was good to see Matt and once again feel whole as a band as we still greatly miss him. Most of today was spent on a semi-grueling 8 hour drive. We only stopped twice for gas and food and thanks to my mom saved a lot of money by downing tuna kits for lunch. Thanks mom. It definitely does wear on us to ride in such cramped quarters but the pride of the gas saved “hardcore rock toughness” of doing so almost out weighs it. Don’t get me wrong though; its uncomfortable. As soon as God blesses us with the means for a van we will gladly step up. We arrived plenty early at Charlotte North to do sound checks and the like. This was definitely the smallest venue we will play. It is actually the back conference room of the office space of the church I worked in last summer. Nick (the youth pastor with whom I worked with last summer) did a great job of setting everything up and helping us get ready. It was a real small and intimate setting. We set up some lights and many of my friends from my last two summers began to arrive. Emerson played there best set yet and everyone was really having a good time. We sold a ton of merch and were just having a blast. Our set went decently well until we got to the Antidote and then the place exploded. As soon as the first synth notes rang out everyone started screaming and the crowd sang along till the very last note, it was awesome. The rest of the set went well and the energy was awesome. It was all in all just another great night. Afterwards there was a lot of hanging and talking and it was just a great intimate night of 60 or so people packed into a tiny room. Later team “Mymerson” headed over to Tambi’s house to spend then night. She is the church administrator and her son Josh is one of the teens I worked with last summer. They were really kind to cook us a ton of food and just basically spoil us, all in all, another great night.
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