Boys Like Girls was the headliner for the Soundtrack of Your Summer Tour, and many overly anxious kids awaited them to take the stage. Flocks of young girls surrounded the Good Charlotte tour bus, in hopes of catching a glimpse of one of the band members. I found myself sitting and singing along to the “intermission” music, which was Death Cab for Cutie’s album Plans. Suddenly the music was dramatically cut off in the middle of a song, and there was a loud ear-piercing sound coming from the stage. Initially I thought it was feedback, but apparently it was supposed to be the sound of static.
We then heard a voice say “You are about to witness a high fidelity music experience,” and the drums to Hero/Heroine kicked in. Screams of delight escalated as the rest of the band kicked in and began to play their opening tune.The band played a few more songs back to back, including “5 minutes To Midnight.” It was about this time that I really started noticing that the sound wasn’t as great as one would expect. I heard moments of feedback, and the vocals weren’t great, either. Still, the band carried on and played more tracks from their 2006 self titled album.An unfamiliar version of “Learning to Fall,” began and lead singer Martin Bennett introduced it as the remix version. It was followed up by “Dance Hall Drug” and “Broken Man.” Before the next song, Martin spoke some more, telling the crowd that the next song was written when he was 18 years old, sprawled across the living room floor, and dreaming of playing “on a stage like this,
in front of a crowd like this.” That was well received by the young fans. With that, he asked everyone to hold their cell phones up in the air, along with lighters or cameras. He continued “This song is the first song to ever be put together by Boys Like Girls, as a band….it’s called Thunder.” As had been requested of them, the crowd lifted their cell phones up in the air, and they sang along.The band picked up the pace a bit after that song, and continued to pump out songs from their one and only album. Never once was there mention of an upcoming release.
The band was established in 2005, and their record was released in 2006. It’s 2008 and I’m yet to see any news of a new album. In my eyes, their sophomore album is over-due.The young pop punk band from Boston, Massachusetts closed the evening with “The Great Escape.” It was a fun, energetic way to close out the night, but again, it sounded to me like there were vocal issues, but I couldn’t pinpoint who was at fault….the sound engineer or the vocalist.The evening was very energetic, but you could absolutely tell the difference in confidence levels between this band and Good Charlotte. Good Charlotte is a seasoned band who is no stranger to the stage, and Boys Like Girls have a little more growing up to do, in order to get there. I was disappointed by the sound at times, and I was also disappointed to not hear an encore. I assumed the main reason why there wasn’t one was because they played almost all the songs off their 2006 album, and nothing else. Did they even have anything else? Who knows….either way, it left a little more to be desired.
Boys Like Girls was the headliner for the Soundtrack of Your Summer Tour, and many overly anxious kids awaited them to take the stage. Flocks of young girls surrounded the Good Charlotte tour bus, in hopes of catching a glimpse of one of the band members. I found myself sitting and singing along to the “intermission” music, which was Death Cab for Cutie’s album Plans. Suddenly the music was dramatically cut off in the middle of a song, and there was a loud ear-piercing sound coming from the stage. Initially I thought it was feedback, but apparently it was supposed to be the sound of static.
We then heard a voice say “You are about to witness a high fidelity music experience,” and the drums to Hero/Heroine kicked in. Screams of delight escalated as the rest of the band kicked in and began to play their opening tune.The band played a few more songs back to back, including “5 minutes To Midnight.” It was about this time that I really started noticing that the sound wasn’t as great as one would expect. I heard moments of feedback, and the vocals weren’t great, either. Still, the band carried on and played more tracks from their 2006 self titled album.An unfamiliar version of “Learning to Fall,” began and lead singer Martin Bennett introduced it as the remix version. It was followed up by “Dance Hall Drug” and “Broken Man.” Before the next song, Martin spoke some more, telling the crowd that the next song was written when he was 18 years old, sprawled across the living room floor, and dreaming of playing “on a stage like this,
in front of a crowd like this.” That was well received by the young fans. With that, he asked everyone to hold their cell phones up in the air, along with lighters or cameras. He continued “This song is the first song to ever be put together by Boys Like Girls, as a band….it’s called Thunder.” As had been requested of them, the crowd lifted their cell phones up in the air, and they sang along.The band picked up the pace a bit after that song, and continued to pump out songs from their one and only album. Never once was there mention of an upcoming release. 
The band was established in 2005, and their record was released in 2006. It’s 2008 and I’m yet to see any news of a new album. In my eyes, their sophomore album is over-due.The young pop punk band from Boston, Massachusetts closed the evening with “The Great Escape.” It was a fun, energetic way to close out the night, but again, it sounded to me like there were vocal issues, but I couldn’t pinpoint who was at fault….the sound engineer or the vocalist.The evening was very energetic, but you could absolutely tell the difference in confidence levels between this band and Good Charlotte. Good Charlotte is a seasoned band who is no stranger to the stage, and Boys Like Girls have a little more growing up to do, in order to get there. I was disappointed by the sound at times, and I was also disappointed to not hear an encore. I assumed the main reason why there wasn’t one was because they played almost all the songs off their 2006 album, and nothing else. Did they even have anything else? Who knows….either way, it left a little more to be desired.
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