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Flashback: This World Fair at Varsity Theater (27 May 2007)

Courtesy of aristake.com This World Fair Setlist Can't Stop Falling Drama San Francisco No Someone Amy Count to 10 7 Letters This is All Don't Make Me Wait The Supporting Actor This Morning Read More This World Fair Since the last time I saw This World Fair, Chris now sport a semi-beard. Toward the end of the set, they took it down a notch and lit candles and did two songs in acoustic style (no heavy drums). One of the …

“The Unknown Order” is the name of the sold-out show organized by singer/songwriter Ari Herstand. Since then, he moved to Los Angeles and became an actor (appearing in 2 Broke Girls and Mad Men and others) and is the CEO of the music business education and artist advocacy company Ari's Take.

The Unknown Order literally meant the bands did not know their play order, as their names would be drawn out of a hat. So, Ari Herstand and His Band started first, followed by White Light Riot, The Alarmists and ending with This World Fair.

Herstand remembers:

If you’re trying to get a reviewer to write a show preview for a local show then you have to make it an event. I once organized a show in Minneapolis called The Unknown Order featuring 4 buzzing bands. No band had sold out the 800 cap Varsity Theater on its own prior to this show. The concept of the show was that the order of bands wouldn’t be announced and 10 minutes before each set the emcee would pick the name out of a hat. I wanted to move away from the concept of headliners and openers.

The show was so buzzed about that it sold out 10 minutes after doors opened and 200 people got turned away.

We garnered major press for it and every band’s visibility amongst the local media community was heightened.

Make sure every event you pitch a reviewer is newsworthy and not just a local 4-band bill on a Wednesday night. Why does your story merit bumping every other music story off the cover? What makes your event unique?

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Since the last time I saw This World Fair, Chris now sport a semi-beard.

Toward the end of the set, they took it down a notch and lit candles and did two songs in acoustic style (no heavy drums). One of the acoustic song was that Disturbia song, "Don't Make Me Wait".

Touring was good for them, and listening to Zach (the guitarist) telling about how they loved playing in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

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Ari Herstand photo by Staciaann   White Light Riot photo by Staciaann   The Alarmists photo by Staciaann   This World Fair photo by Vu

This World Fair at Varsity Theater (27 May 2007) photo by Vu

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Some Concert Reviews (May 2007)

This World Fair at the Varsity Chris Kalgren (5/26/2007) This World Fair (5/26/2007) Setlist (5/26/2007)

THIS WORLD FAIR - VARSITY THEATER, MINNEAPOLIS 5/26/2007

This World Fair - This Morning

Since the last time I saw This World Fair, Chris now sport a semi-beard.

Toward the end of the set, they took it down a notch and lit candles and did two songs in acoustic style (no heavy drums). One of the acoustic song was that Disturbia song, "Don't Make Me Wait".

Touring was good for them, and listening to Zach (the guitarist) telling about how they loved playing in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Here are some other long-overdue concert reviews:

JET - HOUSE OF BLUES, CHICAGO 5/2/2007

Jet Setlist - 5/2/2007

 

Jet - House of Blues

I'm going to assume everybody know about this Australia rock band called Jet, so I'll skip the introduction.

This was a sold-out show. The security was INSANE, they had metal detectors scanning your body for cameras and recording devices, but I managed to sneak in my camera. Which I don't really understand because they let people in with camera-phones :/

They did a cover song, it's an old number, like from the 60s. I couldn't really tell you which song it was - maybe someone can take a look at their setlist and tell me.

The "Are You Gonna be my Girl" song set the audience into a frenzy, obviously.

By the way, I thought the drummer was really impressive. He can really drum, and he also sings on certain songs, this guy is amazing.

The Kooks at the Metro The Kooks (5/5/2007) The Kooks (5/5/2007) Setlist (5/5/2007)

THE KOOKS - THE METRO, CHICAGO 5/5/2007

The Kooks - Eddie's Gun

These guy are from Brighton, and they stole their name from a David Bowie song. They've only have one release Inside In/Inside Out (Jan 2006), but they are well loved by their fans.

Nothing really stood out at this show, the lead singer did some crowd surfing (which the venue have a strict policy against crowd surfing and stage diving with their signage as you enter the venue!)

I saw about three other people from Minneapolis (which basically means that the Kooks decided to skip Minneapolis in favor of Chicago.)

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This World Fair - This Morning

 

 

This World Fair - This Morning

 

 

 

 

This World Fair - Setlist 4-24-2007

This World Fair, you have heard a song from these guys, if you went to see the Dreamworks movie, Disturbia.

The story behind "Don't Make Me Wait" was it was an instrumental song by Geoff Zanelli. The director wanted to have vocals on the track for the movie, so they brought in This World Fair to co-write the song. You can listen (or watch the video) to the track on the Disturbia myspace page).

Since I'm on a Soundtrack-onetrack state lately, I'm not going to include that song for your consumption. Instead, this is off their EP sampler, "This Morning". The song has a catchy:

This morning isn't like any other morning.

I'm also including a scan of their setlist from last night's show at The Varsity Theater .

DISCOGRAPHY [2003] Home (released under "Kalgren") [2005] So Is Death & Love EP [2007] Sampler #1 [2007] This Wold Fair [2007] This Wold Fair EP (also available on iTunes) [2007] Disturbia Original Soundtrack discography courtesy of wikipedia.org

 

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