2008 Woodie Awards
'Take Action Tour' Raises Money For Suicide Prevention In March
Chris Wilcock
Issue date: 4/15/05 Section: Entertainment
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The show opened with an energetic set by up-and-comers, Anberlin. Playing mostly songs from their most recent album, Never Take Friendship Personal, the band won the place over in no time, eliciting a great response and warming up the crowd for the rest of the night's activities.
Almost no time after Anberlin finished, Hawthorne Heights hit the stage, immediately ripping into material from The Silence in Black and White, a phenomenon of an album which brought this band from being completely unknown to the hottest around. The album continues to sell in huge numbers, baffling even industry vets who have never seen a band take off like this. Members of the crowd obviously picked up a copies themselves because from the start to finish they ate up every word and every note of the band's triple guitar assault. When they launched into their breakout hit, "Ohio is for Lovers", the venue exploded into a sea of crowd surfers and scream-alongs loud enough to drown out even the house P.A. system.
The evening's final band, Sugarcult, managed to steal the show with a set-list full of hits and endless amounts of energy. The band wasted no time getting things started, opening with crowd favorite "Stuck in America" and leading right into their current single "She's the Blade." The band played a fine mix of songs from their debut album Start Static and their latest, Palm Trees and Power Lines, all the while never missing a beat. Judging by the cheers and screams of the crowd, the highlight of the night came when it was time to play "Memory", Sugarcult's biggest hit to date. Singer Tim Pagota and guitarist Marko 72 flew around the stage, whipping the already excited crowd into a frenzy. As the final notes of "Bouncing Off the Walls" rang out through the venue and the crowd made its way back through the doors into the New Jersey winter night, there was a lot of money raised for a great cause.
- For more information on the take Action tour please visit, www.takeactiontour.com on the web. The National Hopeline Network can be reached by calling (800)-Suicide and the recently launched teen crisis support Youth America Hotline can be reached at (877)-Youthline.