When people think about going to concerts, most seem less willing to consider going to a show on a Monday night. However, that was not the case for fans of pop rock band Waterparks. More than three hours before the doors of the Tabernacle opened that evening, there was already a line wrapped all the way around the building. Hundreds of people braved the windy Atlanta afternoon to get a good spot for the show.
Waterparks was originally formed in 2011 in Houston, Texas. Since its start, the band has released five studio albums, with their most recent album, “Intellectual Property,” having come out nearly a year ago. Currently, the group consists of Geoff Wigington (backing vocals and lead guitar), Otto Wood (backing vocals and drums) and Awsten Knight (lead vocals and rhythm guitar). Though Knight is the only founding member of Waterparks remaining, the other two joined only a year later.
The Tabernacle venue is located directly behind SkyView Atlanta in a converted church building, which is ironic considering the name of Waterparks’s current tour: “the Sneaking out of Heaven Tour.” At 6 p.m., the doors opened, and fans began to fill both the ground floor and upper balcony levels excitedly.
The first band took the stage around an hour afterward. One of two openers, “bubble grunge” group Pollyanna immediately brought the room’s energy up, putting on a show that was the perfect match for Waterparks fans with their dynamic stage presence and lead singer’s glowing green hair and equally vibrant outfit.
Following Pollyanna was the pop-punk duo Loveless, featuring vocalist and producer Julian Comeau and “multi-instrumentalist” Dylan Tirapelli-Jamail. The group went viral several years ago by posting “What if ______ was pop punk” videos — reimagined covers of popular songs — on TikTok. Later, they moved on to posting original music, which was met with the same love. During their set, they performed an unreleased song, “I Love It…
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