jemo at holy joe’s – March 2, 2007
jemo played at Holy Joe’s on March 2nd, 2007. I’ve been in that building before, and been downstairs, and upstairs, but not up-up stairs. So I was throughly confused. But cruising through the second floor I vaguely recognized almost everyone I passed. Later. Got to the third floor where Holy Joe’s is located, and was met with a wall of people. The place was beyond packed (at least the back was) and waited until the band playing finished to move up and start saying hi. I liked the first band I saw, Who’s Army, I’d seen them at the Lee’s Palace show as well.
The second band I saw wasn’t thrilling nor exciting. Was interesting. And brought I believe every Asian person in the room except me. Because they all left soon afterwards.
jemo closed out the night, whether you call that a headlining band or a closing band. But I finally got front row seats. On a couch with no legs. And pointy metal bits sticking into your back. The sound was great to me, my recording went out pretty perfect. And I got to throughly break in my new Nikon dSLR camera. I make jokes I bought it to run www.jemounofficial.com … but I can’t really say if it’s 100% a joke, or if there’s a lot of truth in it. Brought my friend Alex with me and amused him with my singing along with every jemo song. Screamed like a teenage girl at an *N Sync concert. And finished off the night with the sound guy telling us to get the hell out. In a humourus manor.
I was able to get copies of jemo’s Ciao Edie Roxx show on CD to them, and told them all that jeff had all 3 copies so they should bother him for them. James razzed me for not keeping jemounofficial up to date. And since this was an all-ages show, Jeff had invited many of his former students (he was a high school teacher, now I believe he teaches elementary school) to the show as well.
Remember me saying I recognized many people on the second floor, but vaguely like we’d met once before? I figured out why. The Creepshow were headlining the show in that venue. And I was supposed to go with all my friends. I thought it was the next day. But I caught the last song and a half, enjoyed from the rear, and was happy I finally got to see them live (even if only for 6 minutes) since I’d heard so much about them.
