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Once in a lifetime fursuiting with Beats Antique
13 years ago
I was sitting at work, doing my thing and checking twitter every now and then when I noticed a tweet from one of my favorite bands, beats antique. They announced that they were doing a contest to get people up on stage for their halloween shows and one of the stipulations was that they wanted you to be dressed as animals. About 10 minutes after seeing the announcement my cell started to ring as text flooded in from Dire and Wolphy saying we should do this as we have a super legit shot at it. The contest was short, and we only had two days to get things done so we got to work quickly.
The rules were simple, animal costumes, clapping, ninja punches and jumping. All we had to do was get some footage of us dancing and rocking out to their song catskillz, put it together and submit it. Easy right? We all gathered at Triggurs house, myself, Dire, Wolphy and a local Cheetah who had just got a new fursuit. We spent the remainder of the night shooting us dancing from various angles with instruments, without, smooking hookah and just being silly. After a night of shooting I took the hours of footage and trimmed it down to make this video. It took me a good 4 hours of editing and shooting to get it all put together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgLz.....ure=plpp_video
I posted the video up on their facebook and waited. The feeling that we may actually win made me nervous, especially since there are so many other good dancer furs out there that could easily upstage us. Later in the day I got emails from the band as well as their manager. You guys were awesome, we want you on stage with is and bring your hookah!
The excitement leading up to the show was intense, I couldn't think about anything else as the hours ticked by slowly. Finally the moment had arrived, we had our tickets in paw and we were at the venue. It took a few phone calls and some confused wandering around but we finally made it to where we needed to be. We got our artist badges and went up to the green room to meet everyone and see what we needed to do. The band had not yet arrived in full, but we got to talk to Zoe and she told us where we could change and store our suits after we had explained who we were and why we were in the green room with them. After we returned with the suits we got to meet the rest of the band and the manager. They told us how much the loved our video (and had even reposted it on their facebook which they didn't do for anyone else) and how we were exactly what they were looking for. The chat was brief as they were getting ready for the show, but they told us what they wanted us to do and when to be back to get ready. We were going to be on for the encore ^^
With that we all headed back and enjoyed the concert, watching Lynx, Minnesota, and Zion-I do their thing. It was a fantastic night and everyone was performing on top of their game. Beats antique came out and just set the place on fire. Their show is just fantastic, a hippy gwar as Zoe had later described it. Each of their songs had a different stage performance than the last and they executed flawlessly. Eventually it was time for us to go and get ready. We gave ourselves plenty of time to get ready for the show, making sure that nothing was going to go wrong. We found ourselves watching the last few songs from the side of the stage in suit waiting.
At last it was time. We stood on the side of the stage, with the crowd going nuts, cheering for Beats Antique to come back out. Soon the duck was on stage and that was our cue! We made our way out dancing and rocking out. The energy was amazing. There was over 3200 people, which was the largest show they had ever headlined ever, cheering and going nuts as they played catskillz. We danced and bounced around stage, playing with the giant squid trying to save the band members as they got caught up in the tentacles. It was all over so quick and drenched in sweat I exited the stage and headed back up to the green room. We shared in the excitement with the rest of the band with how well the show went. They showered us with praise telling us how awesome we were, and how they would love to get us out for their other shows in Colorado. I had so many wags, I couldn't contain myself at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5sVfPXznU0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8OBMNcl9No
The band invited us to hang out for a while so we set up the hookah and smoked with them, talking about the tour and things like that. They were awesome to hang out and talk with and were very down to earth people. The manager put on my head and they look pictures of him doing hookah with it. It was awesome! Conversations were very random and just went in every direction as we we were all riding the high of the night. At the end of the night they had to head out a little early as they had a show to do the next day. They thanked us for everything we did soon parted having now experienced a once in a life time event.
Looking back this was just so awesome. Getting to be on stage, getting to perform in front of 3200 people and getting to meet such an amazing band and have them be so awesome. It was just incredible.
The rules were simple, animal costumes, clapping, ninja punches and jumping. All we had to do was get some footage of us dancing and rocking out to their song catskillz, put it together and submit it. Easy right? We all gathered at Triggurs house, myself, Dire, Wolphy and a local Cheetah who had just got a new fursuit. We spent the remainder of the night shooting us dancing from various angles with instruments, without, smooking hookah and just being silly. After a night of shooting I took the hours of footage and trimmed it down to make this video. It took me a good 4 hours of editing and shooting to get it all put together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgLz.....ure=plpp_video
I posted the video up on their facebook and waited. The feeling that we may actually win made me nervous, especially since there are so many other good dancer furs out there that could easily upstage us. Later in the day I got emails from the band as well as their manager. You guys were awesome, we want you on stage with is and bring your hookah!
The excitement leading up to the show was intense, I couldn't think about anything else as the hours ticked by slowly. Finally the moment had arrived, we had our tickets in paw and we were at the venue. It took a few phone calls and some confused wandering around but we finally made it to where we needed to be. We got our artist badges and went up to the green room to meet everyone and see what we needed to do. The band had not yet arrived in full, but we got to talk to Zoe and she told us where we could change and store our suits after we had explained who we were and why we were in the green room with them. After we returned with the suits we got to meet the rest of the band and the manager. They told us how much the loved our video (and had even reposted it on their facebook which they didn't do for anyone else) and how we were exactly what they were looking for. The chat was brief as they were getting ready for the show, but they told us what they wanted us to do and when to be back to get ready. We were going to be on for the encore ^^
With that we all headed back and enjoyed the concert, watching Lynx, Minnesota, and Zion-I do their thing. It was a fantastic night and everyone was performing on top of their game. Beats antique came out and just set the place on fire. Their show is just fantastic, a hippy gwar as Zoe had later described it. Each of their songs had a different stage performance than the last and they executed flawlessly. Eventually it was time for us to go and get ready. We gave ourselves plenty of time to get ready for the show, making sure that nothing was going to go wrong. We found ourselves watching the last few songs from the side of the stage in suit waiting.
At last it was time. We stood on the side of the stage, with the crowd going nuts, cheering for Beats Antique to come back out. Soon the duck was on stage and that was our cue! We made our way out dancing and rocking out. The energy was amazing. There was over 3200 people, which was the largest show they had ever headlined ever, cheering and going nuts as they played catskillz. We danced and bounced around stage, playing with the giant squid trying to save the band members as they got caught up in the tentacles. It was all over so quick and drenched in sweat I exited the stage and headed back up to the green room. We shared in the excitement with the rest of the band with how well the show went. They showered us with praise telling us how awesome we were, and how they would love to get us out for their other shows in Colorado. I had so many wags, I couldn't contain myself at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5sVfPXznU0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8OBMNcl9No
The band invited us to hang out for a while so we set up the hookah and smoked with them, talking about the tour and things like that. They were awesome to hang out and talk with and were very down to earth people. The manager put on my head and they look pictures of him doing hookah with it. It was awesome! Conversations were very random and just went in every direction as we we were all riding the high of the night. At the end of the night they had to head out a little early as they had a show to do the next day. They thanked us for everything we did soon parted having now experienced a once in a life time event.
Looking back this was just so awesome. Getting to be on stage, getting to perform in front of 3200 people and getting to meet such an amazing band and have them be so awesome. It was just incredible.
I quit... *flips table, walks out*
Good show mang! So awesome to see stuff like this.
The best part was when they said to their manager "Make sure these guys are at our Denver shows every time, I don't care how just make it happen."