For the video they had a smaller stage with big construction lights and their gear set up on the roof of Phoenix Plaza which is this big amphitheater on the roof of this parking structure in downtown Pontiac. I heard there was also going to be a helicopter flying over to act like they were breaking up a riot in the video.
After flying we took off and headed flyer in downtown Royal Oak and at some of the malls in the area. While putting stuff up we noticed that people had already put some posters and flyers in places that we were going. It's a cool feeling to see that people other than your street team care about shows that you are putting on and help promote the shows. While on this adventure we stopped at a couple Hot Topics because they are sponsors for the Emarosa tour that we have in October. Now I remember Hot Topic being very dark and almost gothic from when I used to frequent the mall in high school and what not with my friends, now Hot Topic has some pretty cool stuff in there, tons of shirts of some awesome bands, they have a music section with an awesome mix of bands and they even carry some vinyl. They also are cool with people hanging up concert posters and have place for local flyers and what not. We met a guy there who knew about us and our shows and was all about helping us out.
After running around putting up stuff we headed back to Pontiac to check out the rest of the video shoot and see if anymore kids were there that we could promote to. We got back and all the kids were on the roof and not many more had shown up. So we just ended up hanging out and watching some of the shoot. The kids who were there were going crazy and stage diving and singing along. They really picked the perfect day for the shoot, not a cloud in the sky and the sunset was amazing. At night they kicked the lights on and they even paid a guy off at a building near buy to use his huge spot light to back light the band, from the front it looked awesome. It was getting kind of cold and nothing was really going on so we decided to take off.
On our way back to the car we ran in to our friend Chad from Manna & Quail and formally the frontman of the band Heirs (which I miss terribly). They happened to be practicing at the building right in front of where we parked so we went in and hung out for awhile while they were setting up and just hung out and talked about music and art stuff. After hanging out they were about to practice and we were ready to head home to we took off. After a long day running around promoting we got back and I headed home from Nate's, stopping at Scott's to give him some posters. Now here I am writing this blog that probably was total shinfo to you. I will post some crappy cell phone pictures to make it a little more fun.
P.S. Although I am not a big Chiodos fan I wish I would have taken a camera with me, it would have been awesome to shoot some photos there tonight.
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