We’re you guys and we’re giving you the music.” “The Press Club will always be home,” said Leonardo. Those live experiences in Sacramento take place at Holy Diver, but the monthly night is staying right where it is at The Press Club. The Seafloor Cinema will be joining the Emo Night Tour up in Portland and Seattle on their next outing. They also have local bands join them including the Seafloor Cinema, Vinnie Guidera and the Dead Birds and Eugene Ugly.
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When on tour, it’s more than some Panic! at the Disco being belted out through a club’s sound system the tour is a full-on show with the Emo Night Tour Band, which consists of Leonardo on vocals, Stephen Hendry of Drop Dead Red on guitar, Casey Sims on bass and Clay Wolery on drums doing a set full of covers. Leonardo has expanded the brand to become the Emo Night Tour, which he takes up and down the West Coast.
But there’s also the live music aspect of the night that has come into play more recently. Sure, if you go to The Press Club on the last Wednesday of the month, you’re going to hear “Welcome to the Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance. That knowledge of the fanbase and experience in the early aughts emo heyday has helped Leonardo catapult his own Emo Night into its second birthday.Īnother factor that contributes to Emo Night’s success in Sacramento is Leonardo’s ability to keep from becoming monotonous. Leonardo says he grew up in the emo scene when he lived in Los Angeles, having been in bands like Roses for Ophelia and going out on Warped Tour filling in on vocals for Scary Kids Scaring Kids. That’s why Sacramento is lucky to have Leonardo, an emo veteran, and his co-creator Jenna Roberts. For these events to last, they needed someone who was and still is deeply embedded in the scene and music. However, these nostalgia nights don’t always have the most longevity. It seemed like it was a matter of time before emo and indie rock had their own club nights that started to pack bars. Nostalgia has been a huge success for clubs and bars for years with events in Sacramento catering to fans of ‘80s pop, Motown and even “OG” reggae and rocksteady. You can have those concert vibes and still dance.” “All of this music has a pop sensibility to it.
“It’s this thing that takes you back,” said Leonardo. Sad as Fuck Sundays was a weekly night at Bottle and Barlow that played the same music in high school that got you labeled as a “scene kid.” Marcus Leonardo wanted to start a similar night and found a pretty easy way to get around the emo controversy-he changed the name. Long story short, the courts ruled that those people could not trademark the name of an entire genre, they have an event called “Emo Nite” and other emo nights across the country go on in peace and harmony.
It wasn’t all that long ago when there was a possible court battle looming over promoters across the country putting on their own “Emo Night.” Some folks in Los Angeles decided to trademark the word “emo” and essentially corner the market on club nights that play pop-punk and post-hardcore from the early aughts.
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