If you go
› What: Rock & Worship Roadshow.› When: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10 (VIP check-in, 4 p.m.; VIP doors open, 4:30 p.m.; VIP Q&A, 5:15 p.m.; general-admission doors open, 5:45 p.m.; preshow, 6:15 p.m.).› Where: UTC’s McKenzie Arena, 720 E. Fourth St.› Admission: $10 general admission (pay at the door); $50 VIP Experience, $100 Newsboys Experience (buy online).› Website: theroadshowtour.com.
When the guys in Family Force 5 take the stage, they are out to connect with everyone in the audience. Specifically, though, they want to reach that one kid who maybe gets picked on for being different. Band members wear outlandish clothes, jump around like waterbugs in hot oil and generally dance like nobody is watching.
“We [band members] come from all sorts of backgrounds, but the one thing we all have in common is we were made fun of at some point,” says drummer Teddy “Hollywood” Boldt.
The group takes its musical direction from hip-hop, rock, pop and R&B.
“The big thing for us is that we love relating to the little weirder kids that don’t have cool friends,” he says. “Whether people think we are cool or not, we want to help that kid.