When Enon played the Friday Night Rock scene last weekend, FNR managers said the performance was, musically, their biggest show yet. This week, they are going for their biggest show yet -- physically -- by expanding the set to cover two floors of Collis: both downstairs' Fuel Club and the mezzanine-level Collis Common Ground.
This show is made possible through a joint venture with the Programming Board, and is the first-ever collaboration between the two campus groups most known for putting on concerts.
According to Mat Brown '05, Friday Night Rock's general manager, the show started out as a conflict in which PB and FNR had scheduled shows at the same time in the same well-used student union -- and ended in collaboration between the two groups, with both working toward the same goal of providing students with interesting musical acts.
The show will consist of a combination of three performances on the two stages, as if it were Dartmouth's own mini music festival. On the Fuel stage, Acta Non Verba will start their half-hour set at 9 o'clock sharp, followed by Denver In Dallas, which will take over the club at 9:30 p.m. The excitement moves upstairs to the Common Ground at 10 p.m., when The Argument starts up the final installment of the evening.
Okay, so maybe it's not going to be the Dartmouth-equivalent of Redding/Leeds (partially because it's free as always and you don't have to call a year ahead of time for tickets), but Rome wasn't built in a day. The show is going to be a big step up, both literally and metaphorically, for FNR and hopefully, the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between two important student organizations.