It was a cold evening outside, a regular Tuesday with winds and low temperatures on the streets of Boston, the only warm though that night was what to expect at club lido. Beyond our wildest expectation, a herd of sweaty bodies inside the club were grooving and rocking to the music. With the unique FLUTTR sound, and their unusual fusion of guitar, cello and electric marimba, our first thought was “the beginning looks promising”, and the public agreed with us: they were rewarded as the very best band of the night! Congratulations! But, just as expected, the talent of Boston bands kept on rolling on. Then LAST DAY AWAKENING took the stage and kept those bodies in the audience rocking. Afterwards VIBEWISE and their mesmerizing reggae went on: the band’s technical skill and “feel” in this case was mixing with the ability from the band’s frontman to keep the audience in the “palm of his hand” and the sheer stage presence was guaranteeing a good show for those sweaty (and very pleased I must add) bodies. In the end, the were the third band. then with NIGHT STALKER, PUBLIC (that gained the fourth position) and SILENCIO the audience was by then hyped and serious about their powerful rock. As the evening unfolded you could swear you were in a dream where the show was just getting better and better. The chilly weather was now definitely forgotten, outside that door the world did not exhist, for the time being. Inside, the “happy fluid” was being consumed (let’s not kid ourselves, the alcohol was flowing….and rightly so) as the perfect partner for tonight’s event. It was now COLDREAD’s turn to take centrestage. The band opened their set with one on their strongest numbers and they were showing us that the evening was not about to slow down. The DOGTAG, the closing band, was not about to be outdone by the previous boys (…sorry, MEN) and so their set was as good as the bands that walked on the same stage just before. Being the last band on stage the pressure of closing was all on them but their confidence and catchy hooks did make them look like seasoned stage animals: in the end, the public voted them the second band of the night. The First Night of the USA Emergenza Festival has been a successful one. The bands rocked, the audience grooved, the sound was perfect and the turnout was fantastic. Those “poor souls” that just hours before were outside in the streets of Boston being exposed to a very cold day, were later treated to a HOT event that evening! That alone was enough to make them forget for a few hours how chilly it was and how warm an Emergenza evening could be. Click here for a complete schedule of the Festival, the concert dates & the order of bands playing each night.