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Last night was the second annual fundraiser event in SF known as Ümloud! It’s a charity fundraiser geared around Rockband 2, whose goal is to raise money for the prestigious Child’s Play org started by the venerable Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade. (If you want to know more about either of the two groups check out their sites, http://www.umloud.org and http://www.childsplaycharity.org)

It was a BLAST! Entry was free, but there was a “suggested” $10 donation. Everyone recieved two raffle tickets for their amazing series of prizes, (well amazing if you ignore the three copies of Tony Hawk Ride they gave away). Bands could register to play on stage for $35, or for $120 get the full “Ultimate Band” treatment with recorded video and a band photo. There was also a silent auction for some amazing stuff, such as one of the much desired Eddie Riggs statues and one of the coveted $1000+ Uncharted 2 special editions.

We rocked it at one of my favorite venues here in town, DNA Lounge, which conveniently enough is rather close to my house as well. There is a live stream that was fed over justin.tv and is still archived, however sadly the audio sometimes falls out of synch, and there are a few gaps, for example, my entire band set has only audio and about 10 seconds of video :\ Still it’s worth a look for some of the more memorable moments! http://www.justin.tv/dnalounge/archive Some of the best highlights was the Broasis show.. although I think it was better when I was drunk, and my personal favorite was going up on stage as part of King Friday and the Awesomettes, playing I Was Wrong by Social Distortion.

Our apartment kind of made out like bandits too. In the vein of true irony, Wedge’s boyfriend, Witwix, won one of the two pairs of Astro A40s. Quite hilarious since one of our other roommates works at Astro and has been trying to score him a pair for a while now. Also Clarence won the Uncharted 2 special edition, as well as the final raffle item, the ION Drum set. He already has one however, plus I have my own in storage, so not sure what he plans to do with this new one!

Over all I had a blast, and got to hung out with a metric fuck-ton of industry friends from around the Bay. The night was awesome enough that I didn’t make it into work until noon today! I am interested to see what was raised once the numbers are tallied, hopefully its a hot number.

A big thanks to Chris Kohler, John Seggerson and Joe Market for making this all happen for the second year in a row, as well as their army of volunteers. Child’s Play is one of the few charities I really have a strong feeling about, and something I take quite seriously. Anything that benefits it makes me happy