this happens to me, always after i see a band live. it is almost tragic that i become obsessed with bands after the fact. y'know? if i could just see them again, this time around i'll know all the words, promise.
well wavves fucking killed it. like, seriously. we got to the venue roughly forty minutes before the crew was finished setting up so we just chilled i guess, makin' friends. observin'. i swear to fucking god that the nerdiest hipsters on this planet are grinnell hipsters. they each looked like they just found themselves last month. no one really comfortable in his/her hipster shoes yet. i mean, shit, it was kinda cute, y'know? any-fuckin'-how, most the pre-show chitchat surrounded the percentage chance that Wav "nathan williams" Ves would have another complete mental breakdown (we figured between 13-20%), like his ridiculously hyped Barcelona nervous meltdown.
quotable nathanbro: 'If people think that I'm not going to fuck up, then they're wrong. And if they think this is like the last time I'm going to fuck up, they're wrong too. Because I'm young. I'm kinda stupid. I'm human.'
nathanbro's very teenagery apology:'I think in the back of my head I knew I wasn't exactly mentally healthy enough to continue to tour the way I have been since February. Honest truth is this has all happened so fast and I feel like the weight of it has been building for months now with what seems like a never ending touring and press schedule which includes absolutely zero time to myself. I'm sorry to everyone who has put effort into this and to everyone who supported me. Mixing ecstasy valium and xanax before having to play in front of thousands of people was one of the more poor decisions I've made(duh) and I realize my drinking has been a problem now for a good period of time. Nothing else I can do but apologize to everyone that has been affected by my poor decision making. I made a mistake. Not the first mistake I've made and it for sure wont be the last. I'm human. Don't know why I chose the biggest platform I could imagine to lose my shit, but that's life. You live and you learn.'
(thanks p4k!<3<3<3<3)
yeah okay, so maybz this kid has got the rep of douche-iest bro in the indie biz. but i knew it, soon as he walked on stage to set up his pedals and shit. the crowd was probz a little over 50 kids. small, small venue in the basement of a college residence building, right. and between band set up music plays for the crowd and crew bitches who do the amp and drum kit lifting and stuff. well the music that was playing during nathan's set up was like this fuckin' weird '80s mix. i was AMPED up, shit, like WIRED, right, coz i really really do love wavves. i have mad passion for this whole no-fi indie punk scene that's coming out of california right now. so some whitney houston song comes on and me and the geek-chic grinnell hipsters are dancing and being generally very silly. i was in the very front, pressed against the stage along with all the other front-rowers (all girls, go figure, am i right, nathanbro?). the whole situation was a throbbing kinda sweaty "I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY, I WANNA FEEL THE HEAT WITH SOMEBODY" okay? so nathan is setting up his pedals and just singing and dancing along and making eye-contact with us row-one-ers and laughing and being overall jovial. i knew it then, i thought "shit, this kid fuckin' rules, and he has a great sense of humor and isn't even a little douchey". OH, and he is just a little kid, seriously, he is probably 5'3". so fucking cute.
during soundcheck the sound board kept shorting and fucking up, which is where he really lost his 22 year old drug addled shit in Spain, but he was totally chill. he laughed about it and was super polite to soundboardbro. then he, killr punk rock aesthetic in tow, decided to fuck it and went straight into his probz most famous and beloved track 'So Bored'. his mic shorted like a third of the way through, but i could hear him screaming from my spot roughly one foot in front of him and i screamed his lyrics back at him and without all the reverb and effects his voice sounded just like a kid who wanted to have a good fuckin' time. the rest of the show went pretty much like that. just a bunch of kids who wanted to have a good fuckin' time. and when nathanbro stepped away from the mic, he really fucking thrashed, playin' his guitar and smiling, his hair (maybz a mullet) submitting to his head banging. nathan, how do you do it night after night? you gave so into the whole performance, how could you live through this intensity, how is your neck not broken? so the point is i really like nathanbro, he was really chill, and i quite frankly expected spazzzztik behavior. i talked to him after the show to let him know that he fuckin' rulez and that his new shit that's he's put out, like cool jumper, mickey mouse, and my personnnnaaallll favorite song right now hula hoop, are like all completely genius and that he just keeps gettin' better. he seemed to be really complimented and really appreciative of our support. he seemed like a humble chill bro who just likes to perform. he just enjoys making music, and sometimes when you get so way hyped shit gets tough and it gets harder to function in a way that doesn't feel like you're doing what you are contractually obligated to do rather than want you really just wanna do.
so, i love you, nathan williams. you're great and your music is really fuckin' awsome, and you're realllllly fun to see live, and i hope you keep on doing what you're doing so long as it's still what you want to do.
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luvvv, chloe
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