Knightmare Tour!

(Knight School's EL GOLD blogs about tour on her iPhone as My Teenage Stride sound checks)

My friend Kevin was in town this past Thursday with his new band, KNIGHT SCHOOL...they were on tour with another indiepop band from Brooklyn called MY TEENAGE STRIDE. We met them at the CALEDONIA LOUNGE during their sound check and then stuck around to see them play...



Kevin, Lisa, and Chris of Knight School opened up the show with their garage-y pop sound

KNIGHTMARE 5539 from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

Local hip hop crew FUTURE APE TAPES filled the next spot on the bill with freestyle rhymes and disjointed beats...



Afterwards, MY TEENAGE STRIDE expertly commandeered the stage and got things hopping with their raucous style of pop...

Untitled from Raoul de la Cruz on Vimeo.

At the end of the night, Jed from My Teenage Stride, and Kevin took a quick breather before loading up the van and finding places to stay for the night. Kevin and Lisa from Knight School ended coming over to RANCHO COCOA...Nilla was excited to have company and showed off by rolling around on our dining room table, being utterly cute...Lisa took photos of Nilla for her tour blog, BANDS ON THE RUN







I took Friday off work so I could hang out for a little bit longer with Kevin and Lisa. We ended up at THE GRIT for breakfast, where we were served more food than we could possibly finish. After loading up on food, I took Lisa and Kevin to meet up with the rest of their tour mates...they loaded up their cramped mini van and away they went on their way to a house show in Virginia...