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We've come to see the end
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,544
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Gig Diary: Entries
Whenever any of you go to a gig you can post a diary entry about the gig, what happened what the band was like etc. It can be when you see a band or when you play. It means we can share information about good live bands and the comings and goings of our lives.
We're back in action, that above paragraph was from Wiley Willy in the original thread. Great idea, it's been slow lately but let's see if we can get this thing going. |
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We've come to see the end
Join Date: May 2001
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Here's the last review in the original thread, done by Sk8SkaNJ. I'll post it on his behalf:
==================================== Originally posted by Sk8SkaNJ October 15th BB King's, NYC - Bouncing Souls/Dillinger Four/Strike Anywhere/Avail The Soviettes - This band was horrible. All girl band with crappy vocals. Me and my friend have this on going joke about how when they were singing the word "Angela" we just like scream incoherently "Heey Yay yia" and they sounded the same. Nore More Black - Not my thing, so I just sat down. Strike Anywhere - Good as usual, but probably one of the worst set list I've seen them play. Dillinger Four - I love this band. Awesome show, funny as hell. They gave out free nachos. Avail - I'm not into them, they wouldn't be bad if they didn't have that retard always runing around on stage. Bouncing Souls - Probably one of the best setlists I've seen them play and Pete wasn't drunk tonight which is odd considering he's been drunk at the past 2 times I've seen them. Played all the good songs, plus a few golden oldies. |
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Jorge is mexican, (cool)
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Red Deer ab
Posts: 324
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( i forget there name)/wensday night heros/ the casualties
Venue- The concert was at a shifty place called the wharehouse in calgary. you had to enter threw a back alley downtown. The first band had a chick lead singer, sucked, didnt really watch. Wensday night heros - awsome band from edmonton, fast street punk, great guys. The casualties - met with everyone before they played, played a awsome set, better than the other times i had seen them play. After the show they came outside and met with fans again for about 40 min. Great show. only 13$ canadian. ps jorges hair fell down which ruined it. |
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THE BEAT GOES ON...
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Northwest
Posts: 6,077
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Wasnt that show a long time ago?
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The Boogeyman
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Washington DC
Posts: 1,666
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October 11th 9 30 Club, Washington DC – Three/Underoath/Coheed & Cambria
Three – Absolutely an amazing band. I don’t know if I would call them punk rock or any of these bands punk rock but still. Three has two drummers. On their last song both drummers soloed for about 5 minutes. It was really cool. And then they started hitting each others symbols (they were sitting next to each other). One drummer did a solo with cowbell and everyone was like “MORE COWBELL!”. Underoath – This band was a weird band. They put up a banner with a girl with an oxygen mask on. The keyboardist was annoying he would just jump up and down and try to be cool. The drummer and the lead singer shared vocals. The drummer had a high voice and the singer just screamed the whole time and I couldn’t understand what he was saying. Coheed & Cambria – During Underoath we saw Claudio (singer) on the balcony and everyone was waving at him. He looked tired/pissed but idk why. When they got on stage they were pretty good. Everyone was jumping around and stuff. Claudio is a really cool guy. Again I don’t think these bands fit into the “punk” rock category and none of these bands are AWESOME. Except maybe Three. |
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GREAT GOOGA-MOOGA!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Desolation Row, London
Posts: 16,337
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I'll just post the last show I went to:
Stiff Little Fingers - October 7th I got there just as the support band, Huron, was starting their set. Musically they were fine but they were incredibly bland. Every song sounded like a different band but they were all horribly generic even down to the title. They'll probably be the next big thing. In between sets they played this weird stuff that sounded like Devo covering classic punk songs. It was a while before SLF came on and the place filled up considerably. When they finally came on the the atmosphere was great. The band played well with Jake Burns telling little stories about each song before he played them. Before Beirut Moon he talked about a soldier who was going to Iraq he met in a pub the night before whose opinion on George Bush was "He's the dumb fucking squirrel that's gonna get us all killed." That got one of the loudest cheers. The other came from his declaration before 'Doesn't Make It Alright', "I could tell you all about how I slaved over this song getting every word perfect but I won't, because I stole it off THe Specials" and his speech about Joe Strummer before Strummerville. The guitarist sang one song but all I could remember was that he looked just like Compo from Last Of The Summer Wine. Bruce Foxton looked really old and seemed to be enjoying himself but besides Jake Burns the most entertaining one was the Drummer who seemed to have 4 extra cymbals on his kit just to make his drum solos look cooler which they did. He had a great solo before the quiet section in Barbed Wire Love where he went absolutely crazy before ending with a quiet little 'Ting' on one of the cymbals and a stupid grin on his face. They played Suspect Device and then left before 2 encores with the final one predictably being the crowd pleasing Alternative Ulster. They played great. The only annoying thing was that I could dance due to my broken collar bone. I went home with a t-shirt and a big grin on my face. |
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im black
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 2,469
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Dropkick Murphys, 10/16
From the beginning it started off great, I was walking into the venue (Granite State Room, UNH) and no one else was out there, except for the DKM guitar player "the kid" or Marc Orell, so I said hi to him. Stephanie Doherty was also out there with him. And then I went inside, the show started, I got in the front row, and it was amazing, the energy was so high and DKM gave their all. When they played "kiss me I'm ****faced" Tim Brennan took over on bass for Ken Casey and he crowd surfed, I got to hold him up. During the song "the Dirty Glass" Ken Casey forgot to start singing, so then in a later line instead of singing what he was supposed to he sang "I don't know what was going on, I must have been thinking about the game". Because the red sox are playing tonight. Then for the last song "Skinhead on the MBTA" they brought everyone up on stage, like they always do, and I got up there and was right next to James Lynch(their other guitar player) and I got one of Ken Casey's picks. As if it couldn't get any better, Scruffy Wallace (their piper) was standing right beside me at the merchindise table, so I started talking to him about Ryan Foltz and his new bands, The GC5 and Motel Blonde. So that ended, and he signed my hat. They on the way out I also saw Al Barr (their singer) and James Lynch again, and they also signed the hat. The setlist was pretty good, they were missing some of their best songs, but it was great no less. The sound was perfect as well. Loud as ****. So overall it was a **** good night. I've tried to work out the playlist, and I've got all the songs, but they aren't all in order. (opening song:foggy dew-the cheiftains) for boston workers song on the attack gonna be a blackout black velvet band buried alive heroes from our past dirty glass tessie forever bastards on parade the gauntlet good rats boston asphalt barroom hero walk away spicey mchaggis jig kiss me im ****faced (got off stage) boys on the docks skinhead on the MBTA Halloween(misfits cover) Last edited by eatyourpaisley777; 11-29-2004 at 07:37 PM. |
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THE BEAT GOES ON...
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Northwest
Posts: 6,077
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Did they play walk away? and what bands played with them?
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im black
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 2,469
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incendiarism
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: zemzem
Posts: 8,664
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Ska is Dead Tour - 10/16 @ Solid State - Portland, OR
Bands: Dan Potthast, Ted Dancin' Machine, The Planet Smashers, Mustard Plug, Catch 22.
So I get there and it is packed, then again it was a really small venue. Portland's ska scene is better than I thought, seeing as the past two ska shows I've been to have had 70-120 people each show. Ok, so after about ten minutes Dan Potthast (MU330 lead singer) comes out with his acoustic guitar. This guy is really cool and funny, and since he's a one mand band he goes out in the middle of the crowd and starts talking to us and playing. He works really well with the crowd and plays greatly, I really wish I could've seen him with MU330 when they came two or three months ago. He played two MU330 songs and some other random songs he wrote, one about his Catholic teacher-nun-thingy that said girls get pregnant if they're out when the streetlights are on and one about his 90 year old neighbor in St. Louis that tried to kill himself. His set wasn't very long but it was funny and entertaining. After Dan TDM made their way through the crowd, that being my third time seeing them, and it was just as good or better than the other two times I've seen them. During the first song I was on the edge of the pit then I got kind of bumped among them so I started skankin with them, then moshed with all these tall dudes during the harder part of the song. I did that for two more songs then got a little tired so I stood towards the back for the rest of the set. Good set as usual, always a pleasure seeing them live. Next comes The Planet Smashers. Starts off really good with Life of the Party, everyone's skanking. Their set just keeps getting better, despite the fact that it was ****ing hot and I was covered in sweat, whether it was mine or the people next to me I don't know. The best part was when they were playing Surfing in Tofino and got everyone to sit down, then we all counted up from one to ten and jumped up together. ****ing awesome. This was definitely the best band of the night, and I'd love to see them again. Oh yeah, during one of their songs I went outside because I was extremely hot and sweaty, and two guys were talking to me about my Link 80 shirt, they were pretty surprised because they said that's the first time they've ever seen someone witha Link 80 shirt. Yay Portland Link 80 fans I could have sworn the Smashers said Catch 22 were after them but it was Mustard Plug. I wasn't expecting much from them because the songs I've listened to weren't that good. But what do I know, they were actually good live! I really liked the first song, very good skankin music. They were really good with the crowd, lots of shouting in unison and just general stuff that makes a band really good live. I was really hot and tired again so I went outside as the started a Specials cover, Too Much Too Young. I was right outside the door so I could hear it pretty well and it was an excellent cover. Unfortunately I had to leave over half way through their set but the show was the best show I've been to and totally worht the 12 dollars. What's even cooler about the show was that there was no stage. |
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it's not funny
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hamilton, On
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Nagasaki Wetdreams
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Chatham, Ontario
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I would post the show I went to on Friday.. But I bet you guys couldn't care less about KMFDM
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it's not funny
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hamilton, On
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incendiarism
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: zemzem
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Including Violence
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 4,688
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From First To Last/Rise Against/Bad Religion
Probably the least favorite one I went to this month, but a good show nonetheless.
From First To Last Heh, when I heard they would be opening, I knew that they would be harrassed to say the least. Not the right venue at all. I don't like this band at all, but unlike others there, I had the common courtesy not to call them gay or fag or something like that. I thought they were alright live. And they dealt with the audience's comments very well in my opinion. After a bad response after one emo song, the vocalist said they would do it up more emo for the next song (which they did) since the audience enjoyed it so much. And on their last song, he said they had 15 more left, then all the drunk emo-haters went crazy and started screaming and it was pretty **** funny. Rise Against The main reason I came. They are one of my new favorite bands. I saw them at Warped Tour and this time around, their performance was a lot better. The vocalist actually played some guitar on a few songs this time around. They are excellent live and got the crowd going. The only complaint from me is that their set seemed really really short. I think it was considering the time alotted for Bad Religion which I will talk about............................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .........now Bad Religion These guys' set was 2 and a half hours long. I guess that's what you get when you see a band that has been around so long. First time I had ever seen them live and I was not disappointed. I never really got into Bad Religion, but seeing them live was something else. They covered their career pretty evenly I would say. Of course they played "LA is Burning" and a few other new ones, but they evened out their old stuff and their new. All in all it was a pretty good show. I recommend it fully to fans of Rise Against or Bad Religion. From First to Last fans were singled out almost as much as the band itself, so I would wait for them to come around some other time. |
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ALL GO NO SLOW
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Philly, PA
Posts: 6,954
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2 and a half hours? i really wish i was going to that show now.
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God
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Gumnut Cottage
Posts: 1,287
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Thank you God! Also I maybe getting a ride with some girls in my grade. Score!
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You need a mortician baby
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: beautiful boquet pennsylvania
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Including Violence
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 4,688
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I don't like it, but I don't try to look cool by harrassing the emo bands. I make fun of every type of music really. But only to my friends and whatnot.
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