Tailing MAE, personL and Barcelona in Orlando

Wednesday night I saw MAE/personL/Barcelona at the Social here in Orlando. This is probably the best show that I have seen this year. First of all, I’ve been looking forward to seeing this show since earlier this year when dates were announced.

I would like to say 2 things: Dave Elkins and Kenny Vasoli are two of the most genuinely kind people in the scene, and are two of the most approachable people I have had the pleasure of talking with. Dave does a great job of connecting with his fans. He actually called me out on this very website back when the new version of Embers came out. I had voiced displeasure with the removal of the Christian themed lyrics in the song, and he explained to me on AIM why the changes were happening.

We stayed in touch for a few weeks and I have TONS of respect for that dude. Just such a quality human being. Anyway, I was really looking forward to meeting Dave and got the opportunity to do so for about 30 minutes. Very approachable, easy to talk to musician. We discussed LOST (Dave is a big LOST fan) for all you Losties reading my blog, and just talked about Mae’s plans for the future.

I asked Dave about maybe having K-Murda sing on Suspension on the tour. He said Mae wants him to do it, but they haven’t had time to discuss it yet. He also mentioned something about re-recording The Fisherman’s song with someone else doing vocals (he mentioned he’d love to have Aaron Marsh or Kenny Vasoli do them). So we’ll see.

I truly admire what MAE is doing right now. They announced they’ve raised over $34,000 for the Rhonda House. I am completely 110% in support of what this band is standing for, and I just feel so alive to be a part of all of it.

Dave and I after the acoustic benefit show:

Fun times!

Anyway, enough of my personal sentiments for this band. On with the review!

A band called Tokyo opened the show up, and I was pretty impressed actually. They’re from Virginia Beach and put on a great live show. For fans of Augustana/House of Heroes/Edison Glass.

Barcelona put on a good show. They played a decent set, probably 6 or 7 songs. Definitely played these:

Falling Out Of Trees

It’s About Time

Lesser Things

First Floor People

personL was absolutely amazing! First of all, I FINALLY after all these years got to meet Kenny Vasoli. Dude is SUCH a nice guy. Really funny and straight up approachable. I bought a new personL shirt (the one with the rubix cube on it, i love that design) and I bought a copy of the Initial EP which he graciously signed:

I also thanked Kenny for answering my question about the TSL DVD on the ap net chat last week, and he was all “oh, that was you?! awesome man! Thanks so much for being a part of it!” Quality dude.

personL played a great set:

2 new songs to start

canyon lands

born in the rainy days of may

untitled

storms

help yourself

wooden soldiers

goodness gracious

I shot video of  Wooden Soldiers and a BRAND NEW SONG that they hadn’t played live yet called The New Sensation. :

Wooden Soldiers

The New Sensation (NEW SONG)

Here’s a few photos of k-murda himself:

So MAE came out and played a GREAT setlist for the main show. I also attended the acoustic benefit show afterward ($5, all proceeds go to Habitat For Humanity) which I recorded and you all get to watch!

Mae’s visual set-up on this tour is fantastic. 2 22″ Dell monitors playing their movie-set-to-music backdrop and a huge projector screen (with 2 songs in 3D at the end of the set). The two songs they’re doing in 3D are Anything and A Melody, The Memory. It’s a really cool concept for the fans, and everyone REALLY seemed to be enjoying themselves Wednesday night. Here is what Mae played:

Not in exact order after Painless, but still all those songs were played.

Embers And Envelopes (new version)

Suspension

The House That Fire Built

Someone Else’s Arms

Painless

Crazy 8′s (demo)

Just Let Go

The Ocean

Breakdown

Summertime

Boomerang

Two Birds

Anything

A Melody, A Memory

Encore

Sun (Acoustic)

Night/Day

Here is Mae playing “Sun” live:

Here are some photos from the MAE set I took:

Mae Acoustic Benefit Set

Ready And Waiting To Fall

Soundtrack For Our Movie

Mistakes We Knew We Were Making

Tisbury Lane

The Everglow

Each video is available in HQ on youtube, and I recommend watching them in that format.

Enjoy the set!

Ready and Waiting To Fall

Soundtrack For Our Movie

Mistakes We Knew We Were Making

Tisbury Lane

The Everglow

I HIGHLY recommend seeing this if it comes to your town. Good times with good people.

You can support Mae and donate to their cause at their website.

Also, Habitat For Humanity is at these shows!! Please help them out and sign up in your community to bring the same kind of hope that Mae is for Rhonda and her family!

I work for Best Buy and have helped Habitat For Humanity several times in the past in my community back home in South Carolina. Great organization.

I hope you enjoyed reading this recap and the multimedia contained within!

Thanks to Mae/personL for making my week!