For bands David Costa and Aurora Sky, Eastern was the groups first college venue while Flying Just Below Radar has played a few.

The three bands jammed for students at the Grand Ballroom in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Ballroom Friday night at University Board’s Late Night at the Union Part Deux.

“The show was awesome,” said UB mainstage coordinator Pat Lamorte.

Many students filtered in out of the Grand Ballroom all night with the peak at about 25 people for the bands.

“I feel bad for anyone who didn’t come. It was the coolest line-up ever,” said Jaime Aguirre, guitar player for the Below Radar.

“For those who didn’t come it’s there loss,” Lamorte said. “They (the bands) played like it was for 1,000.”

Although college audiences are fairly new to all three bands, each group enjoyed its stay at Eastern.

Below Radar is an indie rock group from Chicago and performed for Eastern last year. The band does not do a lot of college shows but were glad to play at Eastern again and see returning fans.

The show went well and it was especially cool to see that some students came out to see the show again, said Betina Gozo, vocals and bass player for the band.

Kyle Harvey, junior chemistry major, saw the band last year and has also seen them over the summer.

“I think they get better each time they perform,” he said. “They all rock.”

What Harvey likes most about the band is their sound.

“I love their lyrics,” he said. “They’re a hard sounding band.”

Of the bands performance, Gozo’s gunslinger was a crowd pleaser along with its music.

“You just kind of throw and it’s here,” she said about how she throws the bass guitar around her shoulder.

Eastern’s Friday night show for Below Radar was the first show on its tour with Costa and both have 15 shows in 21 days left.

For Costa, a hip hop/rap group from Indiana, performing at Eastern with his newly formed band was a good opportunity and their first college show.

“I thought it was awesome. It was pretty cool to play for (people) who don’t know us,” he said.

Jacob Bough on drums and John Antecki on bass joined Costa and have been a group for eight months.

They had a natural stage presence, said Dan Rohrmayer, junior psychology major.

The band plays all original music because Costa was once in a cover band and prefers to write his own message in songs.

“I was in a cover band in high school, and I guess I grew out of that,” he said. “(The) message is, don’t let anyone tell you how to live your life.”

Rohrmayer liked the originality that Costa brought to his “angry” music.

“They surprised me,” he said. “I like how they mixed rock and rap together. They were original.”

The band is signed with Skeleton Crew Records based out of New Jersey and the owner is Frank Iero, the guitar player for My Chemical Romance.

Liz Smith, vocals for Aurora Sky, also liked playing at Eastern and liked how there were other activities going on for students.

“I really like the atmosphere,” she said. “It was actually pretty cool.”

Aurora Sky is 5-piece alternative rock group from Antioch that has been together since January of last year.

On Friday, they played original music including a song they have never played for an audience.

The song, which has no name yet, is about when things go wrong in life and then there is a moment of peace, “a break in the clouds,” Smith said.

“It’s kind of a song to inspire people,” she said. “I think it did pretty good (at Eastern).”

Joe Amato, freshman music education major, liked Aurora Sky and came specifically to see them along with Emily Miller, freshman vocal music major.

“I enjoyed it,” Amato said. “The music was very good.”

Although he liked the band, Amato saw room for improvement.

“The vocals were a little lacking,” he said.

Miller agreed with Amato adding that “they were trying to hard” but “it wasn’t bad.”

“I think we did really good,” Smith said. “Nothing can be perfect.”