S.N.A.K. Live at the Crowbar June 16, 2006
Alright, so this was my first ever introduction to S.N.A.K. and it was definitely an eye opener. My best friend really had some issues with this band, being the former drummer, and refused to come with me to the show. To be perfectly honest, I only went to the show because jemo was playing and being that they were the last act of the night, generally means I end up getting introduced to other bands that come before. No biggie.
The night started with me being promised to be on the guest list by jemo, and when I showed up I was greeted with people whom I’ve never met before, but assumed they were in one band or the other, who were kind enough to let me in on my word that I am supposed to be on the guest list. Later when I met up with the guys from jemo (outside, I went to go find them since they had gone for dinner) I had no hassles getting back in when I walked in with them.
SNAK was the band who set up the show and usually when that happens you want to be somewhere in the middle. You have your own fan base show up, you have fans that come for the band before that hopefully will stick around, and you have the fans that come for the band after you, that hopefully showed up early. It’s a good ploy that’s for sure.
So remember me saying my best friend used to drum for them? That afforded me to get away with a copy of SNAK’s first album sayin’ you’re done. And me being the big dorky geek that I am, thusly ran around the venue trying to figure out who on earth was even in this band to get their autographs. Nothing funnier than going up to perfect strangers and saying “Can I have your autograph??” and them giving you just the slightest in strange looks as they’re sure they’ve never met you before.
Couple that with the fact that you then pull out a 6 year old CD that has been “off the market” and the questions start flying. They all signed it for me which was pretty awesome. Well, the three main guys, Dave, Tynur and Alex (aka wee one… now that there’s two Alex’s in the band) who were actually on the original disk that I had brought with me. And I tried desperately to keep how I got my CD a secret but someone finally figured it out.
But as to the show, it was great. SNAK somehow brought in a giant tube of bracelet glow-sticks to give to their (and anyone’s) fans and I was able to steal two and thread them through the eyelets in my ears, just to prove that I could. I would go in for certain songs and give them a listen, I definitely liked what I heard, and the crowd loved what they were witnessing. And I would go outside and hang with jemo since they were working the door while SNAK was on stage.
I think my favourite part of that night, and what made me fall in love with the band, was that Alex (wee one) comes up to me right at the beginning of the jemo set, and hands me a copy of their newest disk, 6 Months of Sundays, so I could hear what they had been up to since the last album that I had. That was just the sweetest thing ever. And when I popped it into my car that night, I decided they were people I had to keep in touch with.
And I did!
