Musink Festival - Costa Mesa 2009

Costa Mesa, CA, USA
21st February 2009
Musink Festival Crafts Itself a Musical: Story of the Year, Atreyu

ATREYU has been around for sometime always getting the audience hyped and ready to rock out to their selection of tunes they can dish out in an instant. Their loyal fan base have always been there and always will be at their sidelines supporting their music no matter what because the sound of the music is what matters most to the fan at heart. Well as STORY OF THE YEAR has the same style and similar fan wave link their presents on the stage and live performance atmosphere brings out the total rock and roller inside of you keeping that high flying energy at full speed keeping the music running throughout your body letting you become one with the music.

The second annual Musink Tattoo and Arts Festival took place this past weekend spitting out 3 full non-stop jammed pack days of absolute fun and excitement everywhere you looked. I was lucky enough to attend the second day festivities and the main rooms were swarming with booth after booth after booth of tattoo artists far and wide some experts and some very talented ones, all crafting out their creativity as best as possible. While as other booths set up contain band merch that you would likely run across at your local rock shop while others sold the festival merchandise and the outdoor atmosphere was just as peachy. Having the same set up except little more food surroundings than the main area did. Having popcorn stands with cotton candy flying around soda and beer all around. The Musink Festival was highly underway but the second main addition to this festival was the performances which was done by several musical talents such as FAR who rocked out the stage getting the crowd hyped up with total excitement for the acts that were about to come. Scott Russo of UNWRITTEN LAW continued to entertain the crowd of high energy folk jumping up and down and singing along to the musical tunes blasting out of the sound system through their heavy entertaining set ups.


Story of the Year

St. Louis is known for various things but those things can be thrown away in an instant after being blown away but this rock and rolling heavy metal sensation known only as STORY OF THE YEAR. The act formally known as BIG BLUE MONKEY changed their name to STORY OF THE YEAR and it’s stuck with them ever since. Releasing a live CD/DVD and three studio albums thus far into their musical career span has made these guys known all over the world getting fans everywhere they look. The recent release of their latest instalment ‘The Black Swan’, has indeed made the band more noticeable having a more mature style and sound that keeps the music more fun and just as exciting to listen in on.



Music & Performance:
Once UNWRITTEN LAW left the stage the main bands wrapped it all up having St. Louis very own STORY OF THE YEAR break the stage jumping and shouting until their lungs were sore and bleeding from the inside out. These heavy rockers rocked out a 30 minute set bouncing out the new and old tunes such as ‘Wake Up’, ‘Falling Down’, ‘In The Shadows’, and ‘Until the Day I Die’, which got the crowd dancing and moving instantly not wanting to drop the beat.

Setlist
01. And the Hero Will Drown
02. Falling Down
03. Antidote
04. Wake Up
05. In the Shadows
06. Until the Day I Die
07. Fate