Emo Night Brooklyn: Four Year Anniversary
I’ve been wanting to go to Emo Night Brooklyn for years to compare it to Emo Nite LA. Of course, my first experience with it was the Four Year Anniversary party at Irving Plaza. And I might’ve accidentally gotten too drunk to be able to accurately compare the two.
The first important thing to note: It started at midnight and went until 3am. Uhhh… what?! ENLA goes from 9pm to 2am generally. It’s a longer time to party, and starts earlier so you’re not too exhausted by the time you even go in the venue. I was not happy about that at all. Points for ENLA.
Then there was also the fact that it took at least 45 minutes to get through the coatcheck line. What a mess. It was NUTS and not organized well at all. Maybe that’s just a New York thing that I need to start getting used to now that I live here, but that left about two hours to party.
Then there was also the fact that we had been drinking before going in the venue. If I didn’t leave my house by 9pm, I wasn’t leaving my house, so I met my friend Niki and her friend Mike at a bar across the street from Irving first. I only had two ciders there, but when we actually got to Irving, Mike kept buying us whiskey and… well, it was a lot of whiskey. Hence why I can’t accurately describe how the night actually went.
Things I do know: Will Pugh of Cartel was performing acoustic when we eventually made it in the venue, and Derek Sanders of Mayday Parade DJ’ed.
I guess people weren’t allowed onstage? It looks like there was a barricade. That’s weird.
The music was great, obviously. But I don’t have enough to say because alcohol unfortunately. Although I do think my bias is gonna make me say ENLA > ENB regardless. Sorry not sorry?
“If you don’t see the grave, it’s not our rave.”
We did get a cute picture taken of us that I don’t remember, though.
I’ve been out of college for five years, but for some reason, even drunk out my mind, sorority squatting when I see a camera is still a force of habit.
Photo credit: Nick Karp (except for the selfie, obviously)
