st. louis: see the world and my lady four

see the world and my lady four so kindly decided to grace me with their presence again, and it was lovely. my school schedule has been dwindling down and i ended up not having any classes scheduled for tuesday, the day of the show. so i decided to drive home to st. louis monday night and hang out there for a day or so. it was nice not having to rush off right after class and try to make it in time for the show. i got to sleep in, accomplished some homework, ate dinner with my dad and eventually headed down to cicero's. jeremy, sam and i sat outside and caught up on life for quite a while and met building rome's booking agent. turns out they actually played with building rome the night before in lawrence. [and alex from the noise fm was at the show... small fucking world, right?] he couldn't get over just how many bands i knew and how "connected" i was. it just makes me laugh because i don't even attempt to make most of these things happen, a lot of it just does because of off-handed suggestions and the fact that i go to fifty million shows. but i love it.

my lady four was third on the line up so we headed inside the venue to see them play and there was a pretty good crowd. i feel like the majority was there for them and see the world, which is good. much better than the last time they played cicero's too, so that's progress and that's what makes me happy. see the world played after them and sounded really great. they've certainly improved since i'd seen them last at the end of september. and next time they're around they'll have a drummer as opposed to laptop tracks, so that's exciting. you know it's good when you get goosebumps and 'haunted' always gives me goosebumps.

i bought some cd's, watched everyone pack up, and eventually headed home with jeremy in tow and everyone else eventually following in the van. they were very happy to have a place to stay, but unfortunately about four of the six were highly allergic to cats. apparently there's some kind of strange psychology behind the people who offer bands a place to sleep... everyone started CRACKING UP when i said i had a cat. supposedly like 78 out of the 80 houses they've slept at on tour ALL had cats, or some ridiculous number like that. seriously though, what does that mean? we got home and i gave jeremy the obligatory basement tour and we had our traditional bowl of ice cream at two in the morning. good times, let me tell you. so i ended up never really going to bed... got up at six thirty, showered, ate and everyone was packed up and headed out the door by eight. two hours back to school for me, ten hours back to minneapolis for them. probably longer considering the terrible weather. but it was a great night [rough morning] and i very much enjoyed myself. i think i said the same thing in my previous post about the see the world, but it's still so strange to me how i've only seen jeremy like three times before and sam once, and yet i feel like i've known them forever. and my lady four is such a sweet [and hilarious] group of guys; the thank you's and appreciation was never ending. it's a fact. i love band boys.

so now i'm back at school. i survived my last day of classes [and a final] on zero sleep. i have done essentially nothing today since we didn't have classes. tomorrow i will take my french final. saturday i will go to lawrence to see the noise fm's holiday show. sunday will be dedicated to finishing my last paper. and monday i will turn in said paper and head home for christmas break. i can't believe this semester is over already. and i can't believe i'm getting close to being halfway done with college. fuck.

st. louis: see the world and my lady four

weekday shows, especially beginning-of-the-week shows aren't my favorite thing during the school year, but this one was definitely worth it. see the world is a new band, but by no means new people to me. [if copeland and barcelona had a love child, it would be see the world.] jeremy, lead singer, played bass for a while with we the living, and sam, well i guess you can say that we've been facebook friends for a while and share lots of mutual friends. ha.

so i left columbia a little before four on tuesday and decided to head down to the loop to get some bread co for dinner. i called jeremy to see what they were up to and it turns out they were at said bread co. so i pulled up a few minutes later and we had ourselves a lovely little dinner date and caught up since it's been a YEAR since i'd seen him last. i finally got to meet sam too, which was nice. cute kid, super sweet, and so ridiculously tall! so we headed over to the venue after a while and they got set up and introduced me to the guys in my lady four. we proceeded to sit and wait for doors to open. the first band was pretty interesting; they used live auto-tune which was a bit of a turn off [since tony's brainwashed me], but besides the weird vocals they didn't seem too shabby. [i looked them up later and noticed they'll be back in st. louis soon playing an acoustic set - i'm really curious to see how they'd sound sans distortion.] random chick-drummer band was up next, but sam, jeremy and i hung out in the bar for a while since it was FREEZING cold in the venue area. see the world was up next though, so we headed back in, and i really enjoyed their set. i'm pretty sure they played their ep in it's entirety plus one new song, which i really liked. it's just the two of them so it was interesting hearing just keys and guitar with so much in the backing tracks; i can't wait to hear them live with the full band.

my lady four was up next. i hadn't heard of them before the "see the world tour" hype, but i'd checked out their music online a couple weeks ago and it sounded good. they proved themselves in a live setting too - i really liked what i heard. i don't like comparing bands to each other, plus it's hard to do... but they reminded me a bit of fall out boy. pretty traditional pop-ish rock, but maybe a little bit harder. a few songs were reminiscent of my brief love affair with emery too. so that was that. there was one last band but we were all too antsy and cold to sit through it so we jeremy and i hung around outside while the guys loaded up the trailer. they decided it would be best to drive to columbia, as i had offered them a place to stay, and jeremy rode with me on the drive back. i feel like i say this about every band i blog about, but it still amazes me. i've only seen this guy twice before in my life, but it feels like we've been friends for ages. we had ourselves some good converation for a good two hours, and thoroughly enjoyed cake and ice cream for dinner at two in the morning when we got back to my place. who knows when everyone else got there, i was a goner. they left around nine-thirty the next morning to head back to minneapolis, and there you have it. my lovely tuesday night adventure. jeremy said they hoped to be back near the midwest soon come springtime, so i hope he's telling the truth. i can't say that i like full-year spans between seeing my friends and bands.