So the show went suprisingly well for us.

The night before we were practicing late, and we decided on "the Epilogue" for our name. We then realized that we didn't know if anyone was actually coming to the show besides about 8 friends. So saturday morning good brother Jim called everyone in existance for me while we cleaned out matts basement for the show.

5pm, me Paul and Joel started practicing, and run into trouble with "geralds daydream"... just can't get that synth solo to flow right for some reason.. grrr... Brian Jackson shows up and starts setting up his array of equipment. No sign of Brice yet though... we begin to perspire.

5:30pm We get very frustrated with geralds daydream and almost decide not to play it. Jeff still has not shown up. Cameron does. We stop practicing. Cam sets up his drool worthy dj equipment/noise makers. (and hooks us up to the PA system, which was wonderfully loud.)

6pm People begin to show up, Emily, Beth, Cori, Kate, Matt, Sean and the Twenty Ps gang, and then, more and more people. Jim, Sam, Ben (looking like he had just taken some speed), Chrystal and such. Still no sign of my parents. Will they catch Ju-jajuba? Laughing and talking fills the basement as Cameron unleashes a torrent of hip-hop and bizzare indie rock.

6:30pm Brice shows up! He convinces us to keep "geralds daydream" in the setlist, (he didn't hear the touble we having previously, thank God.

7pm The place is absolutely packed. I start to get butterflys. I go to the bathroom for the 5th time, recite the entire Ju-jajuba song, and then go downstairs. Everyone was there, it was wonderful, I get John to get on the drums, I don the guitar and me and Cori perform as Ju-Jajuba for the first time. I ask into the microphone if my parents are here yet. They aren't. I stall... then finally decide to start the song. It went wonderfully, probably due to the fact that everyone was very amused that me and Cori started a band, and that we were'nt kidding. Or were we? Thanks to everyone who sang along, that made it alot easier. My parents show up while we're playing. Hooray!

7:45 Me and Brian finally manage to get Twenty PS's stuff all sounding decent. And their set begins. I had never seen them play before, and was very exited. They really took me back to highschool with their Dashboard meets Indie rock triple guitar melody laden songs. Adam is a really good frontman for them, commanding the attention of the room with bleeding heart sincerity. Jake added some nice acoustic backup melodies for adam, and Matt stole my attention the entire time by laying down some nice sounding solos on the electric guitar the entire time. Sean does what only he can and picked up, slapped, and revamped some of the songs with new energy on the drums. It was very nice. In between songs everyone was shouting nice things at them, which really helped start things off in a very loving way. Thats what was so great about having all of our friends there. There was alot of love between everyone. I was smiling ear to ear for most of the night.

8:30ish It was time for us to get on stage, so we all started setting up, and tuning and attempting to calm down. I must say that Jeff and Brian are two of the most chill looking people to play with, I just had to look at them and I realized that everything was fine. I was very nervous about remembering alot of the lyrics, and was saying them over and over out loud while doing a sound check. Finally we were ready. I really tried to make sure the atmosphere was loose, and shared a little about the story, and then started playing our first song. The whole set went like a dream, and we were showered with applause in between songs like anything. Some highlights were Paul's newfound double bass talents being unlocked live. He absolutely destroyed some of our songs like he never has in practice. It was awe inspiring. I nearly put down my guitar because he drums starting talking at some point I swear. Brice also held it down on the bass like only he can. Despite not practicing with us at all recently he played every song beautifully. I couldn't hear Brian or myself very well on the guitar but I think we did fine... Joel nailed the songs on the keyboard/synth end. And despite some odd vocal moments by me, the songs played well, and everyone had a really good time. I really didn't know if anyone would like it that much, because while I like all of our songs, they don't really have choruses, or extremely catchy one liners, or bouncy energy... so I didn't know how they would come off in a live setting. Everyone sat down, and listened intently, which turns out is the best way to hear us I suppose. Like your listening to a story.

That makes me a little nervous about playing bars, mainly because the people there would not be our friends, and also because its not as homey as matt's basement. But none the less, I think we will sometime...

9ish Me and John and JJ and Phil take the "stage" as Alethie's Metanoia, and for some reason despite a good and funny soundcheck song, our songs comepletely fell apart on us. Which was VERY frustrating, because we played them FINE at practice. I think that there was a lot of nerves, and whatever else. We also didn't get to practice since Sunday, so that didn't help. So after a VERY frustrating four songs, I layed down on the floor, while they played an instrumental and a piano based song that came out wonderfully. Whew! finally the night was over! and I could relax..

Cameron played late into the night... mixing all sorts of funky things, he is definelty the BESTdj I have ever heard. It was heaven just to sit and watch him do his thing. You can watch for any shows he might DJ at over at the A/V. His moniker is Dummy Destroy.

Thank you so much to everyone who came and watched us play. That was very nice of you all. We may have to do it again sometime. For those who are curious about the story, some lyrics may be found here.

Also, it turns out the Epilogue is the name of about four bands on Purevolume.com alone, so we may need another name... suggestions are encouraged. I like: O Gentle Doves, Sing! Tree! Sing!, or The Forest League, The Singing Tree, Trail of Embers, Giving Ends. Sudden Leaves, Tiny Embers...a giving end. Thoughts?