October 3rd. Not only is it Mean Girls Day, but Mary and I went to the best concert! Joywave performed at the Hi-Fi in Fountain Square with Kopps and Grace Mitchell as their opening acts. The venue, a bar with a stage in the back, was intimate with a maximum occupancy of 195 people. The show was sold out.

Kopps was up first. The lead singer came out with a goblet full of who-knows-what and gold leggings. The whole band had a sports jersey thing going on with their wardrobe. I'm not quite sure what that theme was about, but it was funny to see the guitarists dance around in jerseys. They had choreography with the lead singer and everything.

They played about 8 or 9 songs, but I only knew one called "Dumb." I think it popped up on a playlist on Spotify when I was out running one day--great song to run to, by the way.



Kopps's lead singer was super energetic and interacted with the crowd--so energetic that I couldn't get a decent picture of her. At one point, she gave away a medal to whom she felt was the best dancer, which was actually just a little plastic thing you could pick up at the Dollar Store, but it was hilarious. She brought the winner up on stage and did a little booty shake on him after placing the medal on top of his head because it was too small to fit around it.

Of course, the band closed their set with "Dumb," and the crowd went crazy. I still have the tune stuck in my head.

Grace Mitchell performed next. I recognized three of her songs, "NoLo," "Raceday," and "Broken Over You"from listening to a radio station on Apple Music. I didn't know she was going to even be at the Joywave concert until we got there, but I'm sure glad she was.

Grace had a certain confidence about her, but not in an arrogant way. She sang with passion, and the lyrics were heartfelt. I could tell that she wrote the songs herself by her performances of them. She made a couple jokes--I can't remember exactly what about now, but that made her more personable and seem like she was enjoying herself.



After her set, Grace stood in the crowd to watch Joywave. She stood right next to me! I told her that her performance was awesome, and she seemed so humble about it. During the jumping up and down, we bumped into each other a couple times. As of now, she's the most famous person I've met and/or touched. That sounds kind of creepy as I'm typing it...but it's true!

Joywave was even better than when I saw them earlier this summer at the Alt103 Birthday Bash at White River State Park. Their songs are so catchy! I might not always know what their lyrics mean, but their songs just make me want to dance and jump around--which is exactly what everybody did at the concert.

Daniel, the lead singer, talked to the audience and told us a couple stories. I wish more artists did that. We were so close, I could have reached out and touched him!



Joywave played pretty much every song from their newest album, "How Do You Feel Now?" and a couple older songs from a previous record. The crowd's favorite song seemed to be "Destruction." A couple guys yelled out "Play 'Destruction' again!" after they performed it, and Daniel said something like, "We'll see what happens later." There's a break in "Tongues" after the bridge when Daniel had everyone get down low and get ready to jump up. When we jumped, the band switched to "Destruction" for the second time. It's a great song worth playing twice!

I wish I could relive that whole concert. From the venue to the performances, how close we got to the stage, and even the parking spot we found right in front of the building, everything was perfect!