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In fact, before Bowling For Soup even start playing, when the band ar-
rive on stage, Jaret jokes to the audience that it’s weird, they didn’t know
everyone was going to show up. “Damn, I’m glad we added this show. It’s
great to see you guys”. Rest assured Jaret, we, the crowd, are even more
glad you added the show. After Jaret comically sings a couple of lines of
‘Torn’, a song that was played over the speakers before the band came on
stage, the Texan band launch into ‘My Hometown’, which sees the frontman
sing ‘I hope that you're back up if you've ever been down’. The one thing
Bowling For Soup love to do is make the audience feel good, and if ever a
band is able to do that, it’s Bowling For Soup. ‘High School Never Ends’,
‘The Bitch Song’ and co. sound as fab as always, while new song ‘I Wanna
Be Brad Pitt’, is another treat.
As the show continues, there are lots of jokes, and the band even have
a joke competition where they each say one and the level of audience ap-
plause reveals the winner. Drummer Gary Wiseman wins, although we per-
sonally would have crowned guitarist Chris Burney the winner.

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