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Fast Times at the University of Pittsburgh: The Academy Is... Rocks the Bigelow Bash

So, every year on the first Saturday in April, the University of Pittsburgh closes down Bigelow Blvd. between Forbes and Fifth Avenue. This serves two purposes:

Massively messing up traffic patterns through Oakland
Allowing Pitt to throw a huge party complete with a free concert

In past years, Pitt has gotten acts like Hawthorne Heights, Bif Naked, Ben Folds and Jason Mraz. And this year, they didn't disappoint because they got The Academy Is... to headline the show!

The boys opened the show with "Summer Hair = Forever Young" and then segued into songs like "Neighbors," "The Phrase That Pays," "Checkmarks" and "Everything We Had." William even talked a little bit about Pitt's super disappointing loss in the Elite Eight round of the NCAA tournament, say he had Pitt going to the Final Four. He used this as a means of introducing "His Girl Friday," so bonus points there, Billiam.

There were only really two downsides to this show, and only one of them could really have been helped. The first downside was something I really should be used to at this point: Pittsburgh weather. Despite hitting almost 70 degrees during the week, Saturday's high temperature pushed MAAAAYBE 52. Add to that the fact that it was really windy and it made for a pretty chilly day to be outside (granted, I say this now and odds are I'll be PRAYING for 52 degree weather when Warped rolls around...). However, even the chilly weather didn't stop The Butcher from taking his shirt off partway through the set (teasing the crowd by asking "Who wants the pants?")

The other disappointment was the sound quality for the vocals. This was a problem that Secondhand Serenade had when they played their set earlier in the day, and it wasn't really fixed by the time TAI... took the stage. I'm not sure what the problem was, but the volume of the vocals was really low and sometimes hard to hear even from the barrier.

But, hell, I got to see The Academy Is... for free and had one hell of a good time doing so. At which point? I'm not about to complain.

CLICK HERE for my other photos from the set!

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	The Absent-Minded Professor.: 04/05/2009 3:19 PM Oh, you lucky, you. Not only did TAI play in your city, the weather near you is over thirty degrees. I'm envious. :D
	http://nessalh.buzznet.com: 04/06/2009 8:23 AM Damn. I wish I could have gone to this with you. Your photos are great.
	breesays: 04/06/2009 11:19 AM Scenic and lovely :)
	breesays: 04/06/2009 11:47 AM Just coming back to look again... I really like the trees and the surroundings. Make for such cool pics.
	falloutatthediscoacademy: 04/06/2009 12:30 PM I didnt even know til 2 hours before the show that they were in town or I totally would have gone. Im still kinda pissed. : /
	Buzznet's Official New Age Amazon: 04/06/2009 12:41 PM falloutatthediscoacademy said: I didnt even know til 2 hours before the show that they were in town or I totally would have gone. Im still kinda pissed. : / They kept it really quiet. I actually wasn't sure until the day of that they were actually playing.
	falloutatthediscoacademy: 04/06/2009 2:28 PM newageamazon said: falloutatthediscoacademy said:I didnt even know til 2 hours before the show that they were in town or I totally would have gone. Im still kinda pissed. : /They kept it really quiet. I actually wasn't sure until the day of that they were actually playing. Yeah. I see that now. It saddens me cause I really would have liked to see them. I did know until I got on their LiveJournal and someone posted something about it. The consequences of not being in college haha.
	xletsdisco: 04/06/2009 3:52 PM I HATE THIS! I found out about this concert five hours too late and I will never forgive myself for missing this opportunity. GRR!
	jazzbrokenstump: 04/06/2009 5:28 PM commonnonsense said: Oh, you lucky, you. Not only did TAI play in your city, the weather near you is over thirty degrees. I'm envious. :D i absolutely agree
	unreachablelove7: 04/06/2009 6:51 PM hey! I was there, too. & here's my link if you want to look at the pictures! http://unreachablelove7-tai.buzznet .com/user/photos/
	dang!itsjenny: 04/06/2009 6:52 PM my friends sister went to that!
	Buzznet's Official New Age Amazon: 04/06/2009 6:52 PM unreachablelove7 said: hey! I was there, too. & here's my link if you want to look at the pictures! http://unreachablelove7-tai.buzznet .com/user/photos/ You look like you were pretty close to where I was in the crowd! The show was great, wasn't it?
	craziestchick: 04/07/2009 4:24 AM mike cut his hair :O not sure what to think of it but i love Fast Times At Barrington High XxXxXx
	Lindsay (HPfan6): 04/07/2009 10:35 AM great pics...that's to bad about the sound craziestchick said: mike cut his hair :O not sure what to think of it but i love Fast Times At Barrington High XxXxXx haha I tried to call attention to that with a poll then when I realized that polls didn't show up a journal to point out the poll, nearly 2 weeks ago from all I could tell by the poll only like 17 people saw it till I just started relinking it again but I'm not going to link it again here

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