Cake!

Not the food, the band.

Last night was one more concert for the year... one we seemingly planned for since we knew about it for months. But all that changed quickly... it went from being downtown at The Lawn, to up in Noblesville at Deer Creek. We were going to meet some other friends either before or after (or both, but with us having to drive to Noblesville now, that wouldn't happen. So why all the change? A storm.

We knew a storm was coming - it was talked about for days. That's why they moved the show up to Deer Creek, under the pavilion. Why they didn't do it until the morning of, I don't know - made for some chaotic last minute planning. But we all still managed to make it up there and meet up (there was a group of us). We got into the venue as the opening, opening act was finishing up, but you could see the storm was looming.

So official showtime approaches, and instead of a band walking on stage, it was the MC from he local radio station for the concert. They were going to delay until the storm passed, and we could go wait in our cars or stay under the pavilion. We stayed.

Then the storm blew in. And boy did it blow in! Leaves were swirling around, rain was blowing under parts of the pavilion, and the temperature dropped! And it rained!! Torrential downpour for about an hour (at least!). REports were coming back from downtown Indy that there was flooding everywhere because it came down so fast - gushing up through the storm inlets! But we stuck it out.

Finally, the first band, Metric, took the stage around 9:45pm. They played for about an hour, and then we debated amongst ourselves whether or not Cake would play past the 11pm curfew as they broke down Metric's stage. I said yes, without a doubt. Other people had doubts. But by the time Cake took the stage, it was nearly 11pm! And they did, indeed, play well after the curfew, wrapping up around midnight.

Made for a long night,but isn't half the concert experience just that - the experience? This will be one remembered for the storm.