Whoa!

Man, we're only halfway though this last set and my energy's definitely flagging, but I just had to come blog something about how intense those two bands just were.

Please Step Out of the Vehicle is a six piece Portland all-star band, featuring members of The Snuggle Ups and Prime Meridian making a hell of a lot of noise on: flute, guitar, keyboards, trombone, and dueling drum kits (at least I think there were six of them, it could've been more). Their set featured the first mosh pit I've ever seen made up of mostly 16 year old girls. The band responded by winging water balloons at the crowd, which cooled them off, but didn't seem to calm them down much.

Siren's Echo, a live-instrument hip-hop six piece fronted by three female singers/mcs didn't give the crowd much chance to rest, opening their blistering set with a hard rocking hip-hop version of The White Stripes' Seven Nation Army and not slowing down one bit through the rest of their set.

Old Time Relijun is starting to soundcheck now (they just announced their recent move to Portland from Olympia to the crowd, which was greeted with much cheering). I'm going to head back out there. . .I'll come back once more for a recap at the end of the night, I promise.