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Silly me got to the show late, or they started early, I haven't yet figured out which. Either way me and Brandon showed up probably within the first song or two of the jemo set. The show was amazing and fun and intimate. I haven't been to the Caddy in a really long time so it was definately fun to just sit around, and for once be there when I liked the band that was on stage. Also a nice change was to not have to pay the cover, and still be able to get in. (How many times have me & my friends been forced to pay the cover to totally ignore the bands anyways. arrgh!)

Most of the songs were the same songs heard many times over, and that's fine and dandy with me. I like going to shows and hearing songs that I'm familiar with. Of course new material is always fun and exciting as well, and we had that, jemo debut'ed a new song that night who's name I couldn't hear or was never mentioned.

It was kind of funny that for a lot of the songs, much of the set that I payed attention to anyways, that James was facing Michael and had his back turned towards the crowd. Which works, it was just something I noticed. The entire set was very pretty and I'm super happy I was able to make it out to another show.

Setlist for the Night northern lights sweet suicide over settlement grace

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Alright. jemo's back from their Eastern Canada tour and are ready to save the world by playing music to a crowd of adoring fans. Enter the East African Famine Benefit concert, that gave room to our boys to play a set, and for a great cause. I showed up by myself again, and I paid the cover, but it was for a good cause so it's not like I'd argue the point.

I'll admit the event wasn't nearly as organized, nor nearly as publicized as I really was expecting. The MC was lackluster in enthusiam when introducing bands, and even when trying to crack a joke, really should have memorized it to make it sound natural instead of directly reading it off a page.

The first band was amazing, I missed most of it but from reviews of random people (Including Michael) the bass player was awesome. The second band just wasn't my type of music (nor a lot of others since half the venue stepped outside "for a smoke" during their set. A few different hip-hop duo's and soloists were pretty good & had some great messages in their music.

jemo was up to play, and threw on a killer set. I loved every minute of it, and not having seen them perform live for almost a month it was just fun and inspiring and silly to be so giddy and excited to see them, especally since I've seen them so many times. But I still enjoy every moment, and sing along to every song. I couldn't find my microphone to record the set, so I used earbuds instead, which sounds not too bad, and the battaries in my camera died because I thought they were charged but they weren't but it was almost at the end anyways.

Things got confusing when they wanted to play one more song, but was I guess being signaled not to. Finally they got their one song (really, what's an extra 4 minutes through the course of a night?) and got even more confusing when the next act (a girl who was an amazing singer and sang all in Portugese) started trying to perform while jemo was still packing up on stage.

So after jemo was the amazing Portugese singing girl who I wish had a CD (or had a CD and I didn't bother to find out), then one final hip-hop duo which was another to have some good positive messages, but I really wasn't "feeling it" for them since they repeated the same phrase WAY too many times for my liking, and one of the two guys looked like he didn't even want to be on stage.

The night topped off with the DJ spinning records in basically an empty room since most people came to see one band or another, and once they were done, everyone cleared out. I'd wished there was a better turnout since it was for such a great cause. Oh well!

Setlist for the Night over settlement northern lights sweet suicide grace all along the watchtower innocent liar farewell pharoh

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So this was a new show at a new venue, new in the sense I've never been there before. And this was the first show I was to attend all on my lonesome. Anyways, I got to the door to try the tactic of "I'm on jemo's guestlist" since, apparently I should always be on the guestlist, working with Label Records. I'm informed "jemo never gave me a guest list, but they're not here right now they went to get food." So I decided to leave and find the guys since, I wasn't going to sit in a bar by myself anyways. Found Jeff and James walking back towards the venue making a mess of some burritos they purchased for consumption. We walked in together and it worked out fine.

The first act who I thought was supposed to start at 9pm didn't start until after 10pm. The act that went second who I would then assume would start around 10pm to 10:30pm, didn't start til probably 11:30pm. Leaving jemo to not start until after midnight maybe 12:30ish, and technically Saturday morning.

I missed having the fully plugged in shows. The last show I attended in full (as opposed to sitting outside then leaving) was the Sound Lounge which was awesome in it's accoustic goodness, but there's something about loud rocking music. Especally when it's jemo, because Jeff totally lets loose, and if he had the hair, it'd be let down. So we had a very calm Michael on drums doing his drumtastic thing, James on bass being a super cool cat, then Jeff on guitar just dancin' up a storm, or as much dancing as an accoustic rocker can dance.

Items that were begged for, borrowed, or given to jemo:

Setlist for the night: over settlement innocent liar grace all along the watchtower quiet lightning garden botanical sweet suicide american music audience fairwell pharoh

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So yes. jemo hit the stage at probably 11-ish. I hit record at 11-ish. Brandon made me check to make sure it was recording at 11:05-ish. It was :) SQUEE!

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Alright, last night was the jemo trilogy at Down Omar. I say this because it was somehow decided that jemo was supposed to play from 11:30pm until about 1:30am, forcing down the regular patrons of this small little bar two hours worth of the jemo sound, which was, surprisingly enough, broken down into three neat little sets, the first lasting about 40 minutes, the second about the same, possibly longer, and finally something of an encore which was some of the same songs that was played during the first set, for those who got there late. Actually they played until about 1:45 seeing as the bar owners had absoloutly no problem with them continuing! Seeing as how there was no indication of this trilogy of shows that night nor the length of time that was to be played, I only brought with me one blank MD (minidisc) to tape with which is only ratedat 74 minutes, and hence was only able to get the first set, and probably about 75% of the second set.