The first Turn Up The Good event brought FSU a brand new genre of music that intro­duced Ferris stu­dents to a whole new musi­cal experience.

Wink Arena was packed with stu­dents last Thursday who turned out to see The Glitch Mob, Virtual Boy, Item9, and Ferris’ own Keaton Kidder. 1,548 stu­dents, com­mu­nity mem­bers, and even fac­ulty bought tick­ets and attended the performance.

The response from stu­dents was over­whelm­ingly positive.

Freshman in the pre-pharmacy pro­gram Shane Link thought the con­cert was awe­some and “intense.”

“The lady twirling around the silk ropes was my favorite part,” said Linke. “Especially since she was wear­ing prac­ti­cally nothing.”

“I heard eight out of my top 10 favorite songs tonight,” said Ryan Schmich, sopho­more in the pre-pharmacy pro­gram. “Virtual Boy played an obscure remix that I’ve only ever heard like once, but it was the best thing ever.”

Sophomore in the pre-pharmacy pro­gram Jack Hermann was intro­duced to music at the con­cert that he now con­sid­ers to be some of his favorite.

“I didn’t know it, but Virtual Boy was the rea­son I came here tonight,” said Hermann at the con­cert. “The best thing was the Harry Potter remix.”

Katie Milbourne, sopho­more in the adver­tis­ing and inte­grated mar­ket­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­gram, said, “They did an excel­lent job putting on the show. I know I had a lot of fun and it was great to see how many peo­ple came out to see the bands.”

Dave Kalaf, senior in the engi­neer­ing com­puter net­work sys­tems pro­gram, put it sim­ply by say­ing, “It was a rage of epic proportions.”

“It was a cool idea,” said Melanie Ronquillo, fresh­man in the graphic design pro­gram. “It wasn’t some­thing I would have done if it wasn’t already here. My favorite part about the whole thing was the atmos­phere of the concert.”

Not only did the peo­ple who attended the con­cert have a great time, the bands also enjoyed and appre­ci­ated the energy and atmos­phere they were pre­sented with at FSU.

“It was very cool per­form­ing here. Very unex­pected, but in a cool way,” said Virtual Boy mem­ber Preston Walker. “You guys have a dif­fer­ent out­look on elec­tronic music here. You’re all super down, super cool, and super happy.”

“Absolutely incred­i­ble. Off the chain,” said Glitch Mob mem­ber edIT when asked how it was per­form­ing at FSU. “Small towns are always the funnest shows. People are always excited and it’s always a big deal. We had a blast.”

The peo­ple and groups involved with cre­at­ing this event were also pleased.

“Five months ago all of this was just an idea. Because of the hard work of sev­eral key peo­ple, money allo­cated to us, and the sup­port from every­one who believed in it, our idea became a real­ity,” said Lauren Perry, Music Industry Management Association president.

Alex Gohl, MIMA and Entertainment Unlimited mem­ber, said, “We had an effi­cient and enjoy­able show, and of the ticket sales, over 75 per­cent of them were Ferris stu­dents.” n