2005
WORD OF MOUTH
AWARDS
Venue We’ll Miss the Most: The Staircase
Most Camouflaged Venue: The Waterfront in Plains
Hardest Venue to find (or worst directions to a venue): Tie between The Blue Star in
Lancaster and Green Wave Pub in Larksville
BANDS

Best Near-Death and Recovery - Tony of TruckStopLoveChild
Best Random singing off stage - RJ of The Drama Club, for “Wind Beneath My Wings”
Best Use of Fire Onstage - 27 Piece Punch Set
Best Explanation of Songs - September Sky
Best Rockstar Pose - tie between Nate of The Drama Club and Jay of TruckStopLoveChild
Best banter between songs - Last Tuesday
Most Chloraseptic Throat Spray Ingested While on Stage - I Dare You
Best amp-riding antics at a show - TruckStopLoveChild
Funniest stories at a show - Jon, The Drama Club
Best "Jumping on Top of a Piano During a Song" - Pick an Exit
Best Impressions: Panacea for their impression of Sean Connery & Napolean Dynomite and for
their rendition of Space Balls
Best Appearance by a Band that Wasn’t Performing at the Show - September Sky
Best Sound check - As Each Day Dies
Best Wrestling Match - The Drama Club & Sound the Alarm @ Pepper's
SONGS/SHOWS:
WORD OF MOUTH:
Best fuel for a Deaf by Sunday tour - Red Bull
Best “Deaf by Sunday” tour -  July 27 - 30, 2005 A Romance At Short Notice, Pocket Full of Wood, Hate
to Have to Go Back, A Step Behind, The Arsenal, The 2nd Ward, Arsenal Mayhem, Moonbagg, I.M.
Everything,
Panacea, Okay Paddy, Pistola Amore, The Drama Club, The Stand In, Texas Pete & The
Revolutions, Haymaker, Truck Stop Love Child   4 days, 5 shows, 17 bands.
Best winning tickets on the radio - Traci’s score of four tickets to the Stegmaier Brew Bash at The
Woodlands.
Best WOM Contest - Raffle of autographed As Each Day Dies t-shirt
Best Death Threat - Red Eyes for Blue Skies in our Guestbook!
Biggest mistake in a review - Tonia calling Absolution “death metal” (Once again, I’M SORRY!)
Best mention of WOM while on stage - A Romance At Short Notice (Thanks, guys!)
Best interview - tie between Torn Perfection at Crocodile Rock (in our own "VIP" section, we got to talk
to the nicest guys!) and
A Romance At Short Notice at their “CD Release Show” at Cardinal Brennan
(huddled together outside in the rain, being interrupted by a kid trying to cook Ramen)
MISCELLANEOUS:
Best Lead Singer of Hoobastank look-alike - Brad aka “The Reason”
Band that we’ll miss the most - Joyful Rage
Best Mohawk - tie between Tony Deppen and that really cute little boy we saw at The Strand
Biggest Mosh Pit - Cyphilis
Best "Stealing Our Hearts After Just One Note" - City Sleeps
Best Hair - Tie between Chris of Motionless in White and Andrew of As Each Day Dies
Band so cute you want to take them home with you: Tie between Sound the Alarm and Livingston
Creepiest creepy drunk guy - Sean Connery at Pine Lanes
Best injury - Spraining a finger climbing a fence to see MCR at the Warped Tour
Best reference to “twins” - Bill
Coolest guys in Shamokin - Andy and Tony
If you didn't win an award, don't be discouraged. There's always next year! ...and
it's not like you actually get anything with these so-called "awards," anyway.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!


Venues:
Best Intro - Nothing Sakred
Best Cover song - The Switch performing the theme to Full House
Best performance of a video game theme - “Super Mario Bros.” performed by Thom McCarthy
Best Acoustic Show - Nick Coyle, Halloween, Greenwave Pub
Best Song Based on a Literary Work - “The Lottery” by Climb Across a Wire
Best "Breaking the Rules of a Battle of the Bands Contest to Play WOM's Favorite Song" -
Haymaker
Best show in a garage - Lietzel’s garage show in Ashland
Best CD Release Show - Panacea’s “Anodyne”
Best Mud Wrestling Show - 2nd St. Pub
Traveled Farthest Just to Play for Us - Aneuretical (from Minnesota!
Best "No-Show" - Cold
Most Breath-Taking Crowded Pit - The Killers @ the Electric Factory
Most People in One Tiny Room - The Mendur Show
Most Equipment Broken at one show - Rising Descent at Pine Lanes
Best benefit show - Rock 4 Relief at The Staircase