The first stagediver didn't make it. Three bands into the night, the crowd hadn't really started going off yet. This was, after all, a Wednesday-night show in a non-packed club when the bill didn't have any local bands, and that's the type of situation where a crowd isn't necessarily primed to go nuts. When the great Wilkes-Barre melodic hardcore band One Step Closer launched into "The Reach," the fiery singalong that they use to end every set, things changed very quickly. The band got maybe two seconds into the song -- like, a riff and a half -- before someone launched himself from the stage and landed, as far as I could tell, on his head. The band stopped playing immediately, and people huddled around this poor unfortunate stagediver, helping him get to his feet. When it was clear that he wasn't dead, One Step Closer singer Ryan Savitsky reminded us to all take care of each other, and that was it. They never got around to playing the rest of "The Reach."
