There is a special place saved somewhere for those gigs that happen on the laziest of Sundays and everyone’s favorite wannabe boy band, Waterparks, managed to book just one of those nights. It’s all forgiven though, since whoever attended was in for a guaranteed treat.
Staying true to the fact that the best way to fall for new music is to see the artist live, the opening acts for the night were top notch. London rockers DEAD! were first on stage, greeted in appropriately-wild style to their angst-y music (dirty rock meets MCR) and energetic stage presence by the hometown audience, crowd surfing and all that.
Long Island-based punk rock outfit Patent Pending (filled in on drums by Boy Jumps Ship’s drummer due to the absence of their own member) may have stolen the show in the sense of who is the biggest showman on stage – those random dance choreographies are hard to top. Resembling Bowling For Soup in craziness, they were easily the most entertaining act we have come across recently, not too far behind the headliner.
The Houston gloom boys of Waterparks are currently promoting their newest album, Entertainment, live around the UK and Europe, with a set almost exclusively based on that material – a brave move that not all performers dare to take but based on the crowd’s reaction, it definitely worked out well!
From straight out opening with the first three songs of the new record, then mixing in few oldies like “Royals” and “Stupid For You” in between, Waterparks are still the band with hilarious humor and never ending excitement, (i.e. facetiming parents while playing their biggest headline show so far) we got introduced to a few years ago as Good Charlotte’s support.
“Lucky People” on acoustic guitar accompanied by beautiful lighting work (seriously, who is their tech?) was one special moment when the audience and performer truly got to connect. “Crybaby,” due to its interlude-type qualities is an interesting choice to perform but a notable highlight is the latest single, “Not Warriors.” Final song during the encore, “TANTRUM,” saw out the night in one smashing rave.
“Thank you for coming by. Today was a really good day.”
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