At The Over The James Festival, Avail Took Me To The River

There's an experience that I'd like to recommend. It seems pretty logistically difficult to replicate this specific thing, and it will take a lot of timing and luck on your part, but if you can make it happen, you should. First, you need to be at an outdoor show that gets evacuated because of lightning. Then, you need to find a bar where you can hang out with friends and get just a smidge of beer-buzz going. If it was disgustingly, inhumanly hot before the thunder, that'll help. Then, when you get the notification that the show is back on again, head back with your friends. It'll suddenly be beautiful out, and you'll feel a whole lot better than you would've if you'd just been at an uneventful outdoor gig all day. And when you're walking back through the cool twilight, make sure the Gaslight Anthem are onstage. That's the key.