Nightmare Before Xmas Impressions

I survived The Nightmare before Xmas. Just barely, it was kind of a nightmare. Parking at this venue is a joke. people were backed up onto the freeway for about a mile waiting to get in to the place. But, this was no surprise to me, I've been to concerts at the Great Saltair before. The place was packed. We're talking like 20,000 people, all of which is general admission. Although it was packed, we were able to find a pretty awesome spot on the balcony straight back from the stage.

At about 8:00 the first band that played was "I hate Kate." Their music was pretty good and they put on a great show. Their set lasted about 30 or 40 minutes.

Then the real problem of the show reared it's ugly head. A 45 minute wait for the next band to start playing? It was kind of a joke. It needed to be a bit more organized. By the time "DATAROCK" started playing we were pretty stoked. Too bad the show they put on sucked ass. A couple of the songs were ok, but the show pretty much consisted of four guys jumping up and down in red warm up suits. All the while one little guitar player kept pelvic thrusting his guitar. Sad.

Yet again another 45 minutes to wait. The "Shiny Toy Guns" kicked ass! They put on a good show and they sounded awesome. It was fun as hell. They played their big songs and a couple of new songs I haven't heard before. I do wish they had played a bit longer though.