With a Boy and a Bear

Boy & Bear are amazing live!
Those guys are so talented. They are skilled musicians and their harmonies are so great. At times they do 5 part harmonies! That's an insane amount of harmonies! And it just sounds so pretty.

The worst part though, was as soon as they got to the chorus of Lordy May, just when they started to sing, with on of their beautiful 5 part harmonies, a girl next to me starting singing along, really loudly and really out of tune. It was such a disappointment. That girl really smashed the moment. Not just smashed, completely destroyed. Desimated. Disintergrated. Turned it to dust. Then put the dust into a cardboard box and then set the box on fire. Then...did something to destroy the ashes that were left over. Anyway, the moment was ruined. Luckily they sing the chorus more than once and there were multiple songs with lots of harmonies so it was okay.

 All of there songs were of as good a quality or better than their recorded stuff and it was beautiful to hear. There cover of Fall at Your Feet is so great and I love that I got to hear it live. My one wish was that they had played Blood to Gold but they didn't. But it's okay. I am coping. Just.

But geez there are some douche bags on the Sunshine Coast. I accept there existance and I will let them live peacefully in this world, but why do they have to infest good music concerts? Why must they come to a place where people just want to spend an evening enjoying quality music and ruin it for everyone by making stupid, offensive comments, yelling out and pushing people about? That's just not cool. Luckily the few people that were like this didn't completely ruin my night, I don't know about everyone else though.

The support acts were pretty good. The first was the best by far. They were called Tin Sparrow and they were the cutest little, four person, band (not quite as cute as Tinpan Orange though). They main guy had a really nice voice and the girl who played with him on the key board pulled off some killer harmonies. At one point this girl was playing the xylophone with one hand, the keyboard with the other and singing all at the same time! Got some talent right there. I really wanted the other band to be as good but they did not live up to Tin Sparrow's standard. They were called Jungle Giants.

They had a girl as their lead guitarist which is pretty awesome and looked promising so myself and the friends I was with really wanted her to be as good as the girl from Tin Sparrow but she wasn't. Don't get me wrong, she could play guitar but that was it.The band didn't even bother to give her a microphone so there was no singing or harmonies there and her attempt to dance was pretty shocking, especially when the bassist was such an awesome dancer. He was absolutely going off (he also looked like Frodo from Lord of the Rings) to the point where he even crowd surfed for a bit. This girl had a strange, blank look on her face that made it seem like she was in pain for most of the performance. She tried to bop along to the music but was moving at half the pace that the beat of the song was, so it was a little out of place. And most of the time she had her mouth open for some reason and looked like a deer caught in headlights. The drummer was also pretty cool but their music was pretty awful. You could barely hear it over all the guitar and the main singer had a voice that really grated on my ears and was not all that enjoyable to listen to for the period of time that I had to.

But Boy & Bear were great.