2008 Woodie Awards
The Queues cues up new album
Jonathan Hohensee
Issue date: 7/24/08 Section: Variety
Local Orlando band The Queues celebrated the release of their new album Noisemaker in front of an audience of Denny's patrons enjoying meals of omelets and the All-American Slam.
The idea of playing inside the restaurant was a concept originally conceived by the store's manager, Kevin Boyd, who was looking for a way to increase sales for the store's late-night shift.
"We had originally signed up for an online battle of the bands for dennysallnighter.com and we got third place but then we got a message on our MySpace asking us if we wanted to play at a Denny's," said The Queues member Rob Wintour, who is an English major at UCF.
July 19 was the first time ever Denny's allowed a band to perform at the restaurant.
"It's just something different, we did not just want to put on another show, we wanted to accomplish something different with it and we seem to have a fixation on breakfast establishments, I suppose," said bassist Ronnie Brannan.
The Queues began during winter 2006, after members of the band Stilettos Brannan and Wintour joined up with the members of The Ruppets to form a new band.
During many of the band's performances a golden giraffe was brought onto stage, a statue that Rob Wintour stole from a house he used to live in.
Local stand-up comedian Eric Felling was scheduled to be the emcee of the event, however the performers where forced to begin their sets without him after Felling was pulled over by police officers for a traffic violation.
The opening act was Sterling Schroeder, a 2006 UCF graduate who majored in creative writing, played a set that he describes as being "acoustic horror rock."
In addition to doing live shows, Schroeder also helped write and voice the theme song to Stratorous Rex, a television pilot about a band of time-traveling dinosaurs for Cartoon Network's late-night Adult Swim.
Following Sterling Schroeder was Triscult, a local independent dance troupe that was started last October.
The idea of playing inside the restaurant was a concept originally conceived by the store's manager, Kevin Boyd, who was looking for a way to increase sales for the store's late-night shift.
"We had originally signed up for an online battle of the bands for dennysallnighter.com and we got third place but then we got a message on our MySpace asking us if we wanted to play at a Denny's," said The Queues member Rob Wintour, who is an English major at UCF.
July 19 was the first time ever Denny's allowed a band to perform at the restaurant.
"It's just something different, we did not just want to put on another show, we wanted to accomplish something different with it and we seem to have a fixation on breakfast establishments, I suppose," said bassist Ronnie Brannan.
The Queues began during winter 2006, after members of the band Stilettos Brannan and Wintour joined up with the members of The Ruppets to form a new band.
During many of the band's performances a golden giraffe was brought onto stage, a statue that Rob Wintour stole from a house he used to live in.
Local stand-up comedian Eric Felling was scheduled to be the emcee of the event, however the performers where forced to begin their sets without him after Felling was pulled over by police officers for a traffic violation.
The opening act was Sterling Schroeder, a 2006 UCF graduate who majored in creative writing, played a set that he describes as being "acoustic horror rock."
In addition to doing live shows, Schroeder also helped write and voice the theme song to Stratorous Rex, a television pilot about a band of time-traveling dinosaurs for Cartoon Network's late-night Adult Swim.
Following Sterling Schroeder was Triscult, a local independent dance troupe that was started last October.