A night (to try) to remember

Last night was the very last ever Khaki Snack, Monday night show. Khaki Snack is a band from here at Queen's with 3 guys in it. Derek (Burpee) and Dave who both play accoustic guitars, and Chris (Provan) who plays the harmonica, base guitar, triangle, cow bell, and of course, the gong. They're not you're average band. They do mostly songs that they make up the night of, and are 100% hilarious. Some of their regular repetoire includes songs like My Mom Had Sex with Robby Alomar, 3 Types of Pimps, Movie Review (where they review movies they saw that week), Stereotypes (a song where they make fun of stereotypes of different groups with some favorites being french ppl, italian and greeks), and of course their big hit (which i don't know the actual name of), but is about how one of them got dumped on xmas eve a few years ago by a girlfriend over icq). Most of the show like i said before is improv and they're definately really good at it.

Anyways, they've been doing a countdown the past few weeks to this show. I worked the second last show (i'm a bouncer at Clark Hall Pub) and the place was jammed pretty much right from when we opened the doors so we all knew that the final night was going to be just crazy...and it was.

I had Bryce over to my place for a few beers and stuff at around 8 and Brad (the new manager) came by the place too. It was cool hanging out like that because me and Bryce are both leaving at the end of the year so we wont' get the chance to hang out like that probably ever again. We headed over to the pub around 9:30 and the place was PACKED. The doors always open at 9 and apparently their had been a line up since 8. We went in backdoor (perks of the job) and started out the night strong with a vodka/Red Bull. Great for the old ticker for sure.

The Starving Artists (two brothers playing guitar and bongos) opened the show and about 10 minutes into their set the lights went out. Apparently it was a blackout right across campus. We all defiantely thought at first that this night that we'd all been looking forward to for such a long time was gonna be over right then. Jordan was senior that night and made a great call by getting everyone to shut up and let everyone know that we could stay for awhile to see if the lights came back on, but if they didn't in the next little bit everyone would have to leave. There were SOOOO many staff there drinking last night anyways, so there weren't any worries bout things getting outta control (Clark's a pretty small place and only holds 160 ppl at capacity including usually 5 ppl working). So us staff that were there positioned ourselves at the exits and everything was good. Khaki Snack decided to jump up on stage at this point with the Starving Artists and they went into a classic song (accoustic guitars so you could still hear them), Down by the Bay. It was awesome. 160 drunk university kids, drinking beer in the dark, and absolutely everyone belting out Down by the Bay together. It was the kinda thing that just doesn't happene and the sort of thing you definately can't plan. I have goosebumps right now just remembering it. And then at the part that goes "have you ever...?", ppl would yell out random verses. It was wicked. "Have you ever been to Clark and drank beers in the dark??? Down by the bay!"

The lights finally came on and everyone went nuts. The blackout definately made the night even more memorable. Well, i guess cause that's really all i can remember. Next thing i know i'm waking up at home and its daylight. Guess i had a bit too much to drink. I've heard from other ppl though that i was there right till the end and partied like a superstar. Glad to hear i represented....haha.

Anyways, that's it. What a night.