2022-11.14 The Menzingers @ The National (Richmond, VA) | [FULL SET] 

iRCHVST 0097: The Menzingers @ The National (Richmond, VA)
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Screaming Females and Touché Amoré opened for The Menzingers. You can find their videos here:
Screaming Females: • 2022-11.14 Screaming F...
Touché Amoré: • 2022-11.14 Touché Amor...
My other Menzingers video are here:
2022-10.29: • 2022-10.29 The Menzing...
2022.10.28: • 2022-10.28 The Menzing...
Third time's a charm, right? My FEST videos of The Menzingers had security folks in front of me so deep that I was lucky to catch the band in between them. Having known Tom and Greg tend to gravitate stage right (my left), I positioned myself there to get good shots of them. This paid off when two mic stands in front of me validated my planning.
I shot at an angle so I could get the span of the stage and get all band members. I mostly wanted to capture Tom and Greg as they traded vocal duties with their respective songs. I accomplished this task but when a heavy crowd surfing presence arrived, security guards started lining in front of me. I started getting FEST shot vibes again but it wasn't bad. This video is far better than the previous two I shot, hands down.
The sound was amazing--two hanging speaker arrays flanking both sides of the stage along with speakers facing the audience that were behind the stage monitors ensured I got good sound. Vocals were loud compared to when I shot Touché Amoré and Screaming Females, where I felt the stage speakers weren't even used, resulting in some weaker vocals captured.
Because there were three bands, I opted for my SmallRig set up where I velcroed a MagSafe charger to give me continuous battery power throughout the night. When the night was over, I still had over 80% juice left to my phone! My Shure MV88+ was mounted via cold shoe mount to the left of my phone where I also used it as a handle to guide my footage.
Despite security making a heavy presence towards the second half of this video, I'm fairly happy with what I captured on video.
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