One Girl, Two Coasts: Boston Calling 2014: Day 2

Saturday: Day 2

Magic Man, Walk Off the Earth, the Neighbourhood, and Death Cab for Cutie

On Saturday, Edlyn and I woke up around 9 am. I was rather surprised with myself; I’m a morning person, so I’m almost always up and about by 8 or 8:30 at the latest. Anyways, we got ready and were out the door by around 10 o’clock.

We decided to find some nourishment first before anything else, so we walked over to Quincy Market, which was only a few blocks away. It was crowded, even though it was still so early on in the day…I guess tourists are out and about 24/7. Edlyn ordered a breakfast burrito with eggs, bacon, and cheese while I tried a Hawaiian style pizza bagel (pineapple, ham, pizza sauce, and cheese on an Asiago cheese bagel) that was utterly delicious. Have you ever tried a pizza bagel? Well you should. It was a true breakfast of champions. We also each got some passion fruit juice, then went to eat our meal on a bench outside.

The smells of the desserts and sweets baking in that market were too enticing, so we indulged our sweet teeth as well; I got a slice of decadent Black Forest cake and Edlyn had a Red Velvet Whoopie Pie. We go hard.

Afterwards, we headed for the City Hall. The doors hadn’t opened yet, so we waited outside with the rest of the impatient crowd. After finally getting into the concert, we immediately ran for the Red Stage, where Magic Man would be starting off this lovely Saturday. They were to go on around 11:15. A few of the band members were already out there getting equipment and instruments ready.

When they began performing, Magic Man was absolutely amazing! They’re a local band from Boston, and their music is just awesome. It’s so energetic and the lead singer has such a great voice. I of course took a video of “Paris”, my favorite song by them.

The next band that we listened to on the Red Stage was Walk Off the Earth, who put on such an entertaining show. They became famous from their YouTube account where they did a lot of covers, and Edlyn had showed me a few of their original songs when we had done the Walk for Hunger. I really liked their performance; they had a lot of crowd interaction and their singing was also reaaaally good.

It got super hot and sunny that day, which was both a blessing and a curse. For one thing, we were finally able to feel warm and also get our tan on (jokes, I'm still white as snow). However, it also made the crowd super sweaty and disgusting and that was no fun.

It was also annoying to have about thirty or forty beach balls from sponsor JetBlue flying around and bonking you on the head at random intervals. There was a puddle right where we were standing, and a bunch of them accumulated there because no one wanted to touch them. It's a sad life for wet beach balls.

After waiting with much anticipation, we were finally rewarded with the amazing voice and music of Jesse Rutherford and the other Neighbourhood band members. They were honestly so good-- definitely one of my favorite bands there, and we were basically in the front row for their show! Ah...their whole vibe is so unique. It's hard to describe, but I'd say it's rather dark, haunting, rebellious, and sexy. I've been listening to their whole album on repeat ever since. Jesse is such a god.

After the Neighbourhood finished with a wonderful "Sweater Weather", Edlyn and I BOOKED it out of there...it was so crowded and hot! Plus, we'd been standing for upwards of 5 hours, so we wanted food and shelter and comfy chairs for our sad little legs. It was fun though- there were some friends that we made while standing in the crowd, who were actually impressed with our UCLA/McGill status! Whaaat? We're still so dysfunctional :(

Let's see...we went to get lunch/dinner back at Quincy Market. It ended up being a huge Hawaiian-style salad (lettuce, pineapple slices, tomatoes, honey BBQ sauce, and other vegetables that our bodies were thankful for after a day of all carbs basically) for both of us.

It actually started raining really hard on Saturday night; I ran into a Starbucks along with a bunch of other people and got a Chocolate Chai Tea to warm up a bit again. We walked back to our hotel room for awhile because it was so wet and we needed rest.

After sprawling luxuriously on our bed for awhile, we summoned our strength and saw it wasn't raining anymore when we went back outside. We walked around a bit, then listened to a few minutes Death Cab for Cutie. If you're a die-hard Death Cab fan, you might hate me for this, but it was absolutely packed there, I'm not really familiar with their music, and I really just wanted to be able to say that I saw them.

So we left the concert and hit up our local Tedeschi shop for some snacks. We picked up sparkling water, Funyuns, Oreos, Nutter Butters, Muddy Buddies, and Honey BBQ Frito's for a relaxing night in with our lovely TV. From there, it was a calming night of Food Network (mainly Cutthroat Kitchen) and fooood :)

A long day once again, but absolutely worth it; there were a ton of annoying concert-goers that we had to deal with (even moms who stood in the crowd with their children...seriously?) and we had a lot of issues with tall people (I'm so jealous of y'all) standing right in front of us. But I'd do it again any day...anything for you, Jesse.