Well it’s the night that everyone has been waiting for, the Get Happy Tour 2007 has reached Nottingham’s Rock City, and what a night it is set to be. First up onto the stage is the fantastic Army Of Freshmen, it’s great to see these guys back in the UK and playing to a packed and chanting crowd. They open their set with the brilliant and bouncy ‘Get Em Up’ which sees the crowd go wild and they really do get em up. “Nottingham” shouts front man Chris Jay “How is everybody doing out there?” the crowd cheer to signal that they indeed having a great time, “It’s great to be back at Rock City”. “Everybody tells me that Rock City is the best place to party, is that true” This of course is very true and the crowd let him know that. They blast out the brilliant ’10,000 years’ which sees keyboard player Dan jumping around on stage with his keyboard in his arms.

All of these guys have a fantastic stage presence and huge amount of energy, “Ladies and Gentlemen” shouts Chris, “Is everybody excited to be seeing Zebrahead, The Bloodhound Gang and Bowling For Soup?” the crowd cheer “Ladies and gentlemen I cant tell you how excited we are to be back in Nottingham again”, “Ok everybody, 1 hand up” he shouts “And 2 hands up”, “And clap” the whole room has there hands in the air clapping as they play ‘Wrinkle In Time’ then straight into a track from their album ‘Under The Radar’ which already a huge hit. These guys play such an enthusiastic set you would think they were the headline act

“Nottingham, how are we doing out there” asks Chris, the crowd scream back at him, “I love you guys”, “Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for some rock and roll?” with that they play the awesome ‘End Of The Day’ which gets a huge cheer from the crowd. Half way through this track Jaret from Bowling For Soup comes out to sing with them which makes the crowd scream. “Nottingham Rock City” shouts Chris, “Guys we are going to be going to be going down to the basement after this and we have some t-shirts and CD’s for sale”, “Let me hear you say Hell Yes” Hell Yes scream the crowd.

“Ok I want everyone in the building to give the person next to them a hi 5” which the crowd all do. “Ok we got two songs to go” exclaims Chris Jay” “Were going to throw some fuckin rock and roll your way”, “Can you help us” the crowd scream yes, “I said can you help us?” a louder scream of yes can be heard across the room. They then play ‘Paradise’ which the crowd sing along to. “Ok this is our last song and I want to see this whole place go up”, “Are you ready?” Their final track is the popular ‘Juliet’. “Ladies and gentlemen” Chris shouts after the track “Here comes the rock and roll” they fly into some death metal style guitar playing with Chris Jay screaming into his mic. During their set we saw Chris go over the barriers and into the crowd twice, he is well known for this and the loyal crowd love this interaction even more than Chris enjoys getting all up close and personal with their adoring fans. View Gallery >>>

After a quick sound check from Zebrahead and lots of chanting of Zebrahead from the crowd the show continues. “What the fuck is up Nottingham” yells the Zebrahead front man Ali Tabatabaee “I wanna see everyone going off right now”, “Are you ready?” “We are Zebrahead” they play the great ‘Rescue Me’ “Put your fuckin devil horns in the air” he shouts keeping the crowd rockin, straight into ‘Here’s To You’

“Ok” he shouts, “we are going to do something now and you gotta trust us ok”, “I want everybody to take three steps backward”, “Three large steps come on” the crowd all move backwards. “Ok now I want everyone to sit down where they are”, “Come on, we will wait here until you have all done it”, the crowd do as they are told and the whole room is sitting on the floor, which is quite a sight to see at a gig. “Ok now on three I want you to all jump and dont stop until the end of this song, are you ready?” “1,2,3, jump, ” the whole crowd jump to there feet and keep jumping up and down in the air, and they do for the whole of the song ‘Jag Off’. “Nottingham”, “Fuck that was amazing”, “I want you all to sing along to this next track and jump around” they play ‘Postcards From Hell’ which the crowd sing and jump to.

“Ok”, “Today is our drummer Ed’s birthday so if you see him later buy him a beer”, “Right now we are going to sing happy birthday to him” and with that the band and the crowd sing happy birthday to drummer Ed. “Ok guys his next track is “Hello Tomorrow” the crowd go wild to this, They then go straight into the fantastic ‘Anthem’ which the crowd love. “Ok make some noise for the amazing Army Of Freshmen, Bloodhound Gang and Bowling For Soup”, “This is our last song”, “Before we go I wanna see a huge circle pit in here”, “from the front to the back and the left to the right” they finish with ‘The Set Up’ which the crowd keep the circle pit going for. “Thanks you guys were amazing” they shout as they leave the stage. View Gallery >>>

The Bloodhound Gang have their video screens playing as they arrive on stage to a huge cheer from the crowd, as they start the chant with the crowd “The roof the roof the roof is on fire” which the crowd love, smoke jets blast smoke into the air from the front of the stage. “Thanks”, “Have you guys enjoyed our friends Army Of Freshmen, and Zebrahead?” the crowd scream “This song goes out to them”, then follows the chant Jimmy Pop is gay as instigated by guitarist Jared followed by the chants “Fuck Bush” and “Fuck America”. “We were here in 1999 and in 2000 and in 2005”, says Jared and this place was filled with cigarette smoke and now they took that away from you”, “they took that away from us in the USA 10 years ago, I feel bad for you guys”, “now you are as bad as America” the crowd all boo. Then follows a 1940’s cigarette commercial on the screens as the band leave the stage to go outside for a cigarette break.

Upon returning Jared continues “But America did give you one good thing Nottingham”, “They gave you the Simpsons” which the crowd cheer at. They play their next track with the simpsons showing on the screens. “I met a girl today” exclaims front man Jimmy “It is her 18’th birthday today so I thought I would sing happy birthday to her on stage”, “Then I thought she’s 18, I will just fuck her in the ass backstage later” to which the crowd erupt into laughs and cheers. During the next track the screens show comments like “People from Derby eat rats” which has the crowd laughing.

“Ok im going to show you are going to talk about forever” says Jared, he then proceeds to pull out his cock and attatch a chain to it which is attached to a large wheeled unit onstage and he pulls it along. “That’s not what I was talking about though” he says. He then downs a jug of Jagermeister to the chants of Chug chug from the crowd. Upon emptying the jug he then throws up back into the jug and then downs that. Definitely something that people were not expecting to see tonight. During the next track ‘Bad Touch’ he continues to throw up and spray it over the back of front man Jimmy. A highly entertaining set that included all the things that they are best known for. View Gallery >>>

Bowling For Soup come onstage to the loudest cheer of the night, and straight into the popular ‘My Hometown’ which the crowd go wild to, they play straight into the next great track ‘Emily’.”Nottingham Rock City” shouts Jaret “Let me see your hands in the air”, “This song is about being happy”, “This song is called Im Gay” the crowd erupt and sing along with the band. “You guys are fuckin awesome” exclaims Jaret, “You guys are great singers”, “Give yourselves a round of applause”. “You are an attractive crowd” says Chris, “I want you all to sing along to this next track”, “It’s called Almost” the crowd once again goes mad and sings the track with the band.

“Thank you guys” says Jaret “Lets have a round of applause for Army Of Freshmen, Zebrahead and the Bloodhound Gang”, “Let’s have a round of applause for us for turning up too”. “This next track goes out to all of the bands that have played here tonight” says Jaret, “This song is called The Last Rock Show” after the song Jaret says “Im really sober tonight” to which the crowd boo “Im booing myself inside too” he says, then Chris says “Im so sober right now I want to make love to everyone in the audience” to which the crowd cheer. “Ok everyone” shouts Jaret “I want to see you all put your rock and roll horns in the air”, “This song is called Punk Rock 101” half way through the song they stop and Jaret announces “Now here is the chance for a quick alcohol break and photo opportunity” as the band pose on stage as the crowd take pictures, then they finish off the song.

“Ok this is a song I wrote about Eric’s mum” says Jaret, “Its called The Bitch Song” the crowd sing along much to Chris’s delight who exclaims after the song “You guys are lovely, the best crowd ever”, “Now we are going to take it back down a notch” he says, “That’s why we need the blue lights” asks Jaret as the stage if flooded by blue light. “I don’t want to look like a smurf” says Chris, the crowd shout out and Jaret gets them into a chant of “Get your tits out for the lads” they then play the great track ‘Come Back To Texas’ which sees the guys from Army Of Freshmen take to the stage to sing the second half whilst playing Bowing For Soups guitars. “Who the hell was that” asks Jaret after the song “some skinny guys up here singing our shit” he continues.

“This next song is called 1985” he states, Jaret gets the crowd to sing the chorus which they do word perfect. Then follows the heartfelt new single ‘When We Die’ which the crowd love. “I have got to say” says Jaret “This is the best show ever”, “We should take you guys on tour so you can sing that boobies song”, “How does it go again?” to which the crowd sing again “Get your tits out” Next follows the track ‘Girl All The Bad Guys Want’ the band interaction with the crowd makes this a show that nobody else could beat for fun and laughter with excellent music too. The next track is ‘High School Never Ends’ another favourite with the excited crowd. “We love you guys” exclaims Jaret after the track “We will see you real soon”. The band leave the stage and the crowd chant “BFS BFS BFS” the guys return to the stage and sing a great cover of ‘Ring of fire’ and then the show really is over. A fantastic show that has made a lot of Bowling For Soup fans including us very happy. View Gallery >>>