Friday, August 27, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 7
Night Life
Bands of the week
James Jostin, lead guitarist of Eight Degrees, plays for a packed house. The band tied for first place with Six Percent in the "Battle of the Bands" Tuesday night at The Bottlecone, 737 New Hampshire St. Photo by Eve Katz / KANSAN
A lively audience sings along with Erik Cargill, lead singer of Six Percent. The Battle of the Bands, originally slated to determine the opening band for the canceled Jayhawk Music Festival, drew a large crowd Tuesday night at the Bottleneck. Photo by Eve Katz/KANSAN
Bands duel to a tie despite axed fest
Only Eight Degrees from song to scream
By Emily Hughey writer @kansan.com Kansan staff writer
A crowd of males mills around the knee-high stage at The Bottleneck. The men nod their heads as Aaron Lambotte croons into the microphone. The tempo builds, the nodding intensifies and bodies start to jerk. Most of the women scoot back. Lambette's slow moan becomes a scream and the crowd erupts into a mosh pit, throwing, pushing and kicking until the screaming stops and the tempo slows again.
Lambotte, the lead singer of Eight Degrees, jumps around the stage while guitarist Erik Francis violently shudders, trance-like, to the music.
"We broke our backs out there."
Francis said after the show. "I'm
going to be hurting in the morning."
But he knows he'll have to recover by Monday.
Despite the Jayhawk Music Festival's cancellation, the battle of the bands continued Tuesday night at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. Instead of competing for a spot in the festival, the six bands were vying for a performance at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. Topeka band Eight Degrees tied with Six Percent for first place.
Francis and Lambotte said they thought the reason they won was because they had a unique style that they called rap-core, a style they compared to Limp Bizkit but with more singing as opposed to screaming.
"It kind of separates us." Lambotte said. "You see a lot of rap and screaming coming together but you don't often see singing coming together with rap."
- Edited by Mike Loader
Six Percent burns its way to first place
By Emily Hughey writer @kanan.com Kansan staff writer
Fish throws his right hand into the fire. With a stretch of the trombone, orange-yellow flames erupt from it and lick the ceiling. Fish shakes them from his fingers, his hand jumps through the fire again and catches the microphone mid-air.
Six Percent is competing in a battle of the bands regardless of the cancellation of Sunday's Jayhawk Music Festival. Attracting the largest crowd of any of the other competing bands, Six Percent, of Kansas City, Mo., is grateful for its fans.
good supporters, and I thank them."
"We're just happy people are out here to support live music," said Six Percent's lead singer Fish, also known as Erik Cargill, after the show Tuesday at The Bottleneck. "I'm happy they're there. They're very
Although Cargil said he thought Six Percent gave a good performance, which he filled with toe-touch jumps, he admitted that the amount of fans present impacted the votes. Why else did Six Percent win?
"Because we paid off the most people," Cargill said, laughing. "But it could've been the fire. I'll be honest. It is kind of how many fans you have. But at the same time, a lot of other bands get a lot of exposure. Everybody got some exposure tonight."
Along with Six Percent, other competing bands included Effigy,
Lushbox, Podstar and the Ravguns.
Cargill said he was disappointed in the cancellation of the Jayhawk Music Festival, but he said any chance to perform was welcome.
"We're happy either way," Cargill said. "We're kind of bummed that Jayhawk Music Festival got canceled, but we're just happy to play either way."
Meatless choices grow in Lawrence
Edited by Mike Loader
By Amber Steuver writer@kansan.com Kansas staff writer
"Probably 20 years ago, if you went out and said you were a vegetarian you'd get, 'Well, we have a salad,'" said Chuck Magerl, owner of Free State Brewery, 636 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence restaurants are offering a wider variety of animalfriendly dishes to a larger population of vegetarians, said restaurant owners and local vegetarians.
"Anymote, it's generally served as a regular part of the din
Ann Chapman, registered dietitian at Watkins Memorial Health Center, who eats very little meat, said she thought Lawrence restaurants had improved options on nutrition equipment.
"I think they do a lot better job than they did even two to three years ago," Chapman said. "I find it easy to eat out in Lawrence and get a vegetarian meal."
Lought Lawrence restaurants had improved options for vegetarian customers.
Magerl that about 25 percent of Free State's menu was vegetarian friendly, offering a variety of salads and appetizers as well as black bean quesadillas, ravioli marinara, roasted pepper focaccia, the garden burger and others.
Local restaurants of every type boast much of the same. Uno's Pizzeria, 3333 Ilu Sta., offers salads, grilled veggie wraps, and goes beyond the normal cheese pizza with choices such as spinocoli pizza, featuring spinach and broccoli.
El Mezcal, 1819 W. 23rd St., offers four vegetarian combinations including chalupas, cheese enchiladas and bean burritos.
Pachamama's, 2161 Quail Creek Dr., offers at least one vegetarian main entree for dinner and a variety of meatless salads and pastas. Pachamama's, as well as
other restaurants, said their chefs were happy to adjust their dishes to accommodate vegetarians.
"We cater to vegetarians extremely well," said John Rosanova, Pachamama's owner. "If there's a customer who has a special diet, we'll create a special meal."
For vegetarians whose restrictions go beyond meat, poultry and fish, options may be harder to find at some restaurants.
Strict vegetarians, known as vegans, exclude all animal products including meat, milk cheese and other dairy products. For vegans, a meal may be more difficult to find since a cheese pizza or egg and cheese omelette won't suffice. Chapman said that some foods such as gravy and refried beans are cooked in lard, or animal fat, which a vegan may also want to avoid.
Adrienne Graham, Lincoln,
Neb., sophomore, has been a vegetarian since she was 12 years old. However, Graham said that she has had few problems finding restaurants that cater to vegetarians and that Lawrence offered even more than other cities.
"Most places, even steak houses, have a vegetarian meal," Graham said. "I really don't have any problems at all trying to find things here."
Graham said she appreciated places such as the Glass Onion, 624 W.12th St. General manager Nicholas Beck said the Glass Onion's menu was about threequarters vegetarian. He said the Glass Onion catered to vegetarians, who represent a growing percentage of Lawrence's student population.
"Vegarians need some place to eat," Beck said. "We want to give people some options."
— Edited by Jennifer Roush