People Noise

Originally I wanted to go from Firestone straight to The Lodge backlot to catch Orlando’s own The Sugar Oaks, but after parking for the second time closer to downtown and getting through the crowded alley way enroot to the backlot, realized that they were no where near playing yet. An entire half hour behind schedule!

I was now officially way behind schedule; evidently this would be a theme throughout the rest of the night, and not just for me.  I headed over to The Social to catch what I could of People Noise, a band whom I’ve grown fond of via a little bit of research on their myspace page prior to the festival.  Their tunes are rich and thick with melodies and guitar fuzz that are the perfect magic carpet ride for lead singer Zeke Buck’s grand and gallant vocals to steer around.  They make me feel like I’m floating around on a cloud, kind of like I felt the first time I heard A Storm in Heaven by The Verve.

However, I don’t know if the crowd in the Social got that, if they were expecting something more like Zeke’s old band VHS or Beta, or if they were just too cool to visibly express the type of body language that would’ve suggested they were into it.  There was a fair amount of applause after each song, and Zeke even stated that it was one of their best shows ever in Orlando, but I’m not sure if he was being sarcastic because for a second, he thought he was playing Back Booth and not the Social.