Getting our Teenage Dirtbag On - Wheatus Play at Highlight

Now that the University year is back in full swing there are a lot of gigs and concerts on all around Portsmouth. Highlight holds a lot of them which is unreal for us because we get to see them regardless of whether we're working or not. One of the bands that were scheduled to play at Highlight was Wheatus, one of those bands that to most if not all people were a one hit wonder back in the late nineties/early naughties, but that one song, 'Teenage Dirtbag' was awesome, especially when you were thirteen and just heading into puberty and therefore hitting a grungy stage. There were spare tickets so when Vinnie, Nick, Evans and I were scheduled to have a night off we decided we'd get in touch with our inner early teen and go along. Jamie, Ross and some of the other crew from Yates's and the Lyberry joined us, plus some of Ty's friends and then Robyn got knocked off around nine so we had a pretty good team to go with!

We didn't pay much attention to the band that played before Wheatus, and to be fair we didn't give Wheatus our full attention throughout their set either. But we did enjoy ourselves. Robyn and I made the most of it and had a bit of a dance, she actually knew the words to other songs, I was so impressed. Everyone was just hanging out for 'Teenage Dirtbag' to come on. Wheatus knew this and were pretty good sports about it, as they kept saying at the end of each song, "Yeh we know you all want to hear the 'dirtbag' song, we'll play it soon." When it did finally come on though it went off, everyone was jumping around, singing along. They even remixed it and had one of the band members freestyle rap in the middle of it which was cool. Was a really good way to end the set and did leave a good impression.

After the set we all got to meet the band, and Mr. Wheatus as we called the lead singer. It was his birthday so he was giving everyone cupcakes with 'Wheatus' written in icing on the top. Naturally icing ended up all over everyones clothes and in their hair but when we did manage to actually taste some they were really yummy! We got a few photos with Mr. Wheatus then once the place started clearing out we headed down to Guild Hall to have a few drinks at the Lyberry.

The Lyberry was pumping as usual, there was a huge girl fight in the bathrooms at one point and I had to run and find the bouncers, it was crazy! Added a bit of excitement to the night I guess...luckily no major injuries I think. All in all it was a really good night, never would have made the effort to go and see Wheatus had they not conveniently been playing at our club but I'm glad I got to see them it was fun.