Down where??

DOWNHERE!!!!

If you haven't heard of the Christian band called "Downhere" then you must go out (or on itunes) and buy an album..or two or three. We have been listening to them for years and they are really really good. We saw them a few years ago at the Soulfest and they proved to be great then..so when we saw that they were coming to a church in Manchester (for only $10) we couldn't pass up the opportunity.

On Friday a group of us (Kirsten, Mark, Shara, Jake, Shawn, Karen, Chris, Kim, Sam, Dale, Jake, Jenn, Ally and Kyndal..and of course Josh and I) headed down to Manchester..and had a great time. The thing with the band Downhere is their vocals. They have two that compliment each other incredibly...one of them, Marc has a high voice similar to Freddie Mercury (Queen) and the other one, Jason has a much deeper tone. The two together sound incredible and as a whole the band was super tight.

They came out and played the first song. I leaned over to Josh and we were talking about how amazing the sound was (being married to an awesome sound man tends to do that)...and we were impressed at how good it was. That song ended..and about two words into the next song we both looked at each other like "what happened?". Something happened...according to my husband having to do with a compressor or something that I didn't really understand completely..caused the sound to get all messy. They finished that song..and tried another..and after realizing that this was a problem they took a break to try to fix the problem.

They came back out..played a song or two with the relief of the problem being fixed...and then it happened again. I said it was because their sound was just too good for the equipment...I guess that's impossible:)

They continued with the concert..only with less on stage sound...a bit quieter with the drummer playing with brushes. It was still amazing..vocals still right on...and they were good sports about it still having a good time.















Of course...no outing of ours can be had without at least a little bit of obnoxiousness. As we left heading to the concert we decided that we would do a girls car and a guys car. The guys drove in Shawn and Karen's vehicle...and in it found a little ride on toy of Riley's. Of course, Jake and Mark were instantly on the same page, just knowing that they HAD to ride it...AND fill it with gas at the gas station....



..and it didn't stop there. As we all enjoyed our ice cream from Wendy's Jake just couldn't resist taking the ride on toy through the drive through.





I was seriously close to peeing my pants..I was laughing so hard.