Concert Review Third From First, Everlife
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Well last Friday was another concert at The Net outreach in butler Pa. (insert link for the net) and on Friday’s Bill was Becoming Less, Third from first and Everlife, Yeah that Everlife, the Disney girls. What you may not know is that Everlife started out as a local band that played at the Net an uncounted number of times and even shared the stage with our band Splintered on several occasions.
Now Mike and I got to the concert a bit late and as we walked in we were spotted by one of the girls taking the tickets “I was wondering where you guys were.” She told us. I got to tell you, it is a little strange to me to be recognized. Mike and I paid our money and headed up to the Third floor to see the concert, we could already hear the music playing and I was worried that we were missing Third from First who we had seen at our last trip out to the net, but as it turns out we got there just as Becoming Less was finishing up. So I only got to hear the very end of Becoming less, a group of younger kids in a band they formed in October. I did manage to make a contact with the band and they are supposed to be sending me music so you might be hearing them on the show in the future. So we pretty much got to the show just in time to see Third from first.
I was very excited to be getting to see the guys from Third from First and I got to say that they didn’t let me down in the least. Once again the boys put on an incredible show Rocking out the large crowd. With some of my favorite songs as well as some newer songs that I found out will be on a new soon to be released EP that should be out later in this summer. This is a CD I am really looking forward to getting my greedy ears on.
If I can take a minute of your time I want to tell you about something that Third From First, about halfway through their set they stopped and began to worship, and I don’t mean they just played a worship song in their set, I mean they BEGAN to Worship, and if you heard me talk about having to worship God in 140 characters or less in Episode 62 you might begin to understand what an effect this had on me. I am happy to say that is wasn’t just me enjoying this, I looked into the crowd and saw that most of the people either deep in worship or enjoying this time spent honoring our creator.
After third from first finished the show we were all herded down to the first floor while they changed out the stage for the headliners Everlife So with just enough time to get a strawberry smoothie and a brain freeze we headed back up to the concert where we were greeted with simply three stools and two guitars onstage. the Girls took the stage.
It is at this time I feel like I need to confess something to all of you. If you follow me on twitter or know me in person you know that I was teasing the girls of Everlife. I mean I never doubted their talent but as the Disney chicks I have to think they took their share of teasing and more importantly what I am guilty of, Not taking their music or passion seriously. Well if you follow me on twitter you know that I took the time to apologize to them live on twitter. They are very talented, women who are passionate about their music and their faith. With that I want to return you to the regularly schedule review.
It was only halfway through the first song that I remembered what it was about these girls that I enjoyed so much before they got their huge break. Talent, pure 180 proof crystal clear talent. now mix that with the fact they are not only doing something they love to do but they are doing what God wants them to do and you cant really be surprised that they are so good at what they do. I will say this, the crowd at the NET was a little larger (and smaller) than it was the other times. Larger in the sense that there was about 3 times the usual number, smaller in that most of them were young teen girls. Now let me just remind all of you that I happen to be a great big galumphing guy, so a crowd of little girls that doesn’t even come up to my shoulders should not be a problem. Well after 10 min of being beaten up by these tiny teenlets I found myself off to the side where I wasn’t in anyone’s way and I’m happy to say that the bruises are healing and now only my ego is wounded.
by the end of the night, I was half deaf, happy and tired. Still I got the chance to talk to both Everlife and Third from first and let them all know just how much I enjoyed the show. Now before i end this Review with a Song from the Everlife Acoustic EP I just want to let you all know that I am in the middle of Scheduling Interviews with both Bands and will be bringing them to you here.
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