Welcome Week Bands

The First Year Experience Office (FYEO) has just announced that the two headlining bands for this year's Welcome Week are Alexisonfire and the Arkells! The Alexisonfire concert is free for everyone who buys a MacPass, and the Arkells concert is free for all students.

I will definately be at the Arkells concert as I've heard they are amazing live and they're originally from Hamilton. Anyone else planning on going?

Would you guys recommend buying the MacPass?

YES! It's your ticket to an awesome week! And I think you need it to participate in some of the Welcome Week Activities. I bought one last year... and I was glad I did!

YOU DEFINITELY NEED TO BUY A MACPASS!!!!!!!!!!!!

And yes Krista, I am sure I will make my way there!

boo alexisonfire. arkells are good though. i was hoping for metric (they were invited too), there were also rumours all summer of kesha and k-naan.

alexisonfire was the headlining band at my first frosh week, at, um, that other university...:S
The concert wasn't fantastic, but that may have been cause I had strep throat...

Also, I'm surprised Metric would have been invited. They were at Mac's frosh a couple of years ago, and apparently they came out late, drunk, and only performed a few songs before leaving. Mind you, I've been a long time Metric fan, and I've seen them several times, and I must admit, they are often quite buzzed, to say the least.

And buy a MacPASS!! I know they are/seem expensive, but you get a lot for your money. It includes your meals for pretty much the WHOLE WEEK! that means NO COOKING! and you get to delay getting sick of food from commons for a WHOLE WEEK

And there's concerts, clothes ( i got 4 shirts from WW last year), swag, and a pretty stylin wristband too.

I bought my MacPass a few weeks ago...and I'm not even able to go to Alexisonfire (I'm going to be in Toronto seeing Vampire Weekend that night .) but I saw them in Toronto this past March, and they're pretty flippen awesome live.

get a macpass, definitely. also, isci needs a band...

An iBand would be cool

lol we can call ourselves The Scientists and perform in lab coats (different from the ones we use in labs, ofcourse), not to reinforce stereotypes or anything =P. lol on a serious note, i can play bass, and some guitar. im actually interested in starting a band, anyone thoughts?

Percussion all the way right here lol
also some bass

Yesss!!!! iSci band does sound sick!!!
i play drum and piano/keyboard....

haha what kind of music would we play?

would it be some science song? or regular song?
haha that would be funny all wearing labcoat...haha

p.s. im much much comfortable with drum

Darn, this is one of those moments where I wish I had some musical talent.

If anyone wants to try mixing a flute into this band, I could give it a shot... =P

But I don't promise anything. Even though I've been playing all summer, I still haven't gotten back what I had in high school.

I can whistle...

i'm sure we can steal kieran back to isci so we can have a singer in our band!

I am offended by the idea that all scientists are experimental scientists! Representation for theoretical scientists!

Aight James, we can have 2 drummers in this band...
OR WE CAN HAVE A DRUM OFF TO THE DEATH MUAHAHAHA
also scot...lab coats make everything more badass. Everything.

aha true true....come on you need drummers in any band. It will sound a bit empty without it
I have to agree with with Alex. It looks too professional !!

so we just need vocals. and possibly a tambourine. every band needs tambourine. krista, can you do tambourine? =P

I'd offer to do vocals...but I don't think you guys want this band to fail quite that badly.

I respectfully vote "no" to Solomon singing. I also vote "yes" to him juggling apples on stage.

Ooh!! And I'm stellar at tamborine.

For the 2014s, you will find out why Krista chose to put apples and Solomon in the same sentence next year

anybody ever seen revenge of the nerds?

this is a slightly relevant scene from it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMgG6KyhGXQ2

also, i can sing