#100 gecs concert

[impulsivemischief]

100 gecs | jannus live | tampa, fl | may 9, 2023

[ih8frostchildren]

my video from food house the other day :)

[digitalxdaydream]

100 gecs at jannus live

[meadowcult]

Cool shot of Laura Les’ Jaguar from the 100 gecs / Machine girl / Chat Pile show in Pelham, TN, 2023.

[moreshamelessmilk]

my fit for 100 gecs

[trans-taxing-taxidermist]

Concert Photo Dump // 100 Gecs Montreal [2023]

[trixic-pixie-ii]

✩ ma€h1n3 g1rl and 100 gecs ✩

4.28.23

[askaniritual]

also the person scanning our tickets gave me a huge double take and then they went “……..does your shirt say karkat?” and i was like “yeah 😔” and they were like “oh 😔” and then after my roommate was like. “why did you both look so unhappy to be having that interaction”

[sage-coffee]

Wild shit happened in the pit last night

[velostl]

100 gecs performed in St. Louis at The Pageant on April 15, 2023. Originally photographed for St. Louis Magazine. 

[femceldogdyke]

Da 100 gecs & machine girl fittttt X3 super excited too go too a concert tonight tbhhhh

[spaceageloveblog]

So I went a 100 gecs concert.

They are a group I discovered recently. I saw they were coming to Hard Rock Live down at Universal Orlando. I wanted to go. I didn't think she would want to go with me. I felt weird going by myself. Well, not weird going by myself. I was perfectly comfortable going by myself. I guess I felt weird revealing myself to her as being willing to go by myself. I have played some of their songs for her and the kids. I think she thought some of them were good. But I could tell this wouldn't be something she would want to go to. I asked. She said no. I said I'd go by myself. She said that was weird.

She is always doing things. Hey, what are your plans for Thursday? Can you handle soccer practice and dinner with the kids? I am going out with this friend or coworker or whoever. It's fine. I don't mind. More than that, it's good. I relish my time with the kids. And she and I should have our own things. My own things end up being things I do on my own like running or listening to music.

I say she's always doing things, but it's more like once or twice a month. Maybe three times. Rarely three times. It's like 1.5 times per month on average. It's great. She has friends. I don't have friends. Well, I have my friends from high school in Youngstown or college in Cincinnati or grad school and various places in Florida that if we went out for drinks would we have a great time. Or if I called them and said I needed to talk about something important, they would drop everything and call me. But I never need to talk about anything important. I get along great with my coworkers and her friends' husbands and other dads on my kids' soccer teams, but I don't hang out with them on my own. I am living the cliche I noticed my dad and the other dads around me living when I was a kid.

So she is totally supportive that I do things. If I said I am going to have dinner with a friend on a Thursday and asked if she could cover soccer practice and dinner with the kids, she would enthusiastically say yes. So I asked if she could manage soccer practice and dinner for the kids last Thursday so I could go to the 100 gecs show. And she said it was weird but said yes. So I went.

Parking at Universal is the same for theme parks as for the City Walk which is where Hard Rock Live is located. Pulling into the parking structure around 7:30p, a half hour before the opener was scheduled to go on, I was obviously arriving at a similar time to others attending the show. I chuckled to myself a few times taking the 20 or so minute walk from my car to the venue, seeing tourist families dressed as superheroes and minions walking next to gecs fans dressed as frogs and goths.

After getting through the doors, using the restroom, getting myself a $13 pre-tip large Heineken draft, I got to the main floor right at 8p as the opening act, Machine Girl, took the stage. I was a near the bar at the back, in an elevated section behind the bands' tech crew with mixing boards and whatever, in the second row of standing room folks with a good view. I had planned on navigating the place for a while before settling in, but this spot was pretty good and I ended up sticking near here.

Machine Girl was (were?) insanely loud. Glad I brought earplugs. Kept them on for the entirety of their 30 minute set. Not sure which genre you'd call their music, and scrolling through their albums on Apple Music isn't particularly helpful since each one is categorized as something else. Call them electronic non-dance if you will. They were fine. The lead singer certainly got into it, good for him, he seemed to be enjoying himself.

Gecs went on just after 9p and I was now against the railing in the front row of that standing room section, as the people in front of me vacated their spots between sets, so I stayed there for the duration. I had finished my beer before they started, so I'd thought for a moment of moving up into that crowd but decided against that because my view was so good.

Part of me going to this show--and maybe trying to go to more shows by myself if she isn't interested--is to recapture a bit of my youth if I'm being honest. I similarly tried to recapture my youth 10 years ago was with Sleigh Bells. I saw them on SNL, playing songs from their 2nd album, thinking they were original and cool. I listened to their 2 albums non-stop (already feeling late the party being one album behind and 10 years too old, with 2 young kids at home and one on the way). Less than a year later, we moved to Orlando and they released a 3rd album and we went to their show. We sat in a couch in a "VIP" area. I wished I could get up and dance but she wasn't as into it so I stayed seated. Looking back I can't believe how old I felt 10 years ago. 10 years from now I will probably feel the same looking back on myself now.

So I didn't go out into the crowd at the gecs show and dance but at least I went to the show. They played all the songs from their new album. They opened with "Dumbest Girl Alive" and "757." I thought the energy was highest for "Hollywood Baby" about midway through, they should probably close with that. "Frog on the Floor" and "I Got My Tooth Removed" were crowd favorites too. The played plenty of old stuff too, otherwise they couldn't fill an hour. I have just listened to their new album so much, I was able to identify each of those 10 songs. The latest of the new songs was "mememe," sandwiched in between a few of their older songs. I think they would have sounded better with a live band but I'm old so of course I would say that. But they only have to split the money 2 ways, so good for them.

I dunno, I'd like to start going to more shows. My ears took a few days to recover despite the earplugs. Part of me daydreamed that I'd talk to some people and start to make Orlando friends to go see live music with, but I didn't talk to anyone. I probably could have struck up some conversations with the people around me between sets. But that's when I was hit with a tinge of feeling weird, the standing there by myself as a the old guy at the show who came by himself. The going there, the getting in, that didn't feel weird. That 30 minutes between sets I felt weird standing their as the old guy. But I moved to the music when they played and even sang along to a some of my favorite lyrics. So I enjoyed myself. I probably would have drank more but I didn't want to lose my spot.

She would go with me to nearly anything if we had seats. So I need to plan accordingly on that for some of the mellower bands I like. We could get dinner first and make a date out of it. We'd both like it. She doesn't like the standing in the crowd thing. It's weird though, I think she likes dancing more than me, we just don't dance together. We used to in college. But not now. I think we'd both like to dance together more but don't know how to talk about it.

So I went to a 100 gecs concert and maybe that's the start of something.

[baradragon]

friend got to see machine girl open for 100 gecs im jealous i wanted to get fucked up in the mosh pit 

[gokartkid]

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[moss-cf]

Machine gorl

[sorryexistence]