I went to the Famous Like You CD release show last night

and I have a few thoughts on it.

It’s so nuts to see the same band and same guys that I’ve been going to see for a year or so now up on stage not singing and playing the songs I know by heart, but playing new ones that in a matter of days I will know too. While I was watching them play their new songs there was this sense of new everywhere. They seemed happier if that’s possible. Don’t get me wrong they always look happy when they’re up on stage doing what they love to do the most, but they just looked happier. And older. I mean yeah, logically they are all older, but playing these songs made the band as a whole look more mature. Like, I can think back to all the A Kidnap In Color shows and it all felt a little childish, but there was this sense of grown-up last night, I just can’t really explain. You would have just had to have been there… I think the new songs are probably the biggest factor in this. They are a deeper and more universal so people can relate to them a little more than A Kidnap in Color’s songs. Don’t get me wrong, AKIC songs were all very catchy, but that’s all they were pretty much. I don’t think I could really relate to any of those songs beside Leave the Light on. But from the few songs I have heard from Famous Like You, I’m sure pretty much everyone could find something to relate to in at least one of the songs.

It was good to see that they still had the same fans come out to see them, I recognized a lot of the same faces from old shows… it’s good to see that kids are still gonna support them even with a name change and new songs. but like I see it, they’re the same band, the same group of great guys, same musicians, they just changed their name, kicked the old songs out and wrote a bunch of better ones. (I’m not saying AKIC songs were bad at all, just saying FLY’s new songs are gonna be hits.)

Out with the old, and in with new right?

So,to Davey, Peter, Dan and Chris, great job last night. I look forward to listening to your new EP on repeat for a while and can’t wait to see you lovely fellas at more shows. Keep doing what you guys do, because it’s working for you.