Strum my guitar, baby.

So I just saw The Matches and Plus 44.

I saw The Matches at Warped Tour a couple years ago, and I wasnt impressed. They were actually alright tonight, but I'm not going to rush out to buy their CD. Their singer and their guitar player make for an interesting set, with all their running around and crazyness.

The reason I went though, was for Plus 44. I never got see Blink, but now at least I've seen 2 out of 3 of the members, and baby, 2 out of 3 ain't bad. They played the entire album, plus their christmas song. I wish the set had been longer, but what else can they do with only one CD?

Mark was hilarious and exactly what I was hoping for. He made a joke about Travis playing the whole tour with one arm, and Shane playing the whole tour with one ball. Uproarous laughter ensued. They sounded pretty incredible. Mark and Craig make a good singing duo.

So there it is, a very good show.

The Gryphon School carol service on Monday.
Can't wait.

[QUOTE=Loner;13820486]uh :/[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=9715[/url]

:sigh:

I just saw Dropping Daylight and those guys ROCK!!!! They are true musicians, who else keeps touring when their van breaks down and they only have the cloths on their backs and the band whose bus their crashing's instruments and still plays an incredible show? Huh?

[QUOTE=MattSharpIsCool;13826697]So I just saw The Matches and Plus 44.

I saw The Matches at Warped Tour a couple years ago, and I wasnt impressed. They were actually alright tonight, but I'm not going to rush out to buy their CD. Their singer and their guitar player make for an interesting set, with all their running around and crazyness.

The reason I went though, was for Plus 44. I never got see Blink, but now at least I've seen 2 out of 3 of the members, and baby, 2 out of 3 ain't bad. They played the entire album, plus their christmas song. I wish the set had been longer, but what else can they do with only one CD?

Mark was hilarious and exactly what I was hoping for. He made a joke about Travis playing the whole tour with one arm, and Shane playing the whole tour with one ball. Uproarous laughter ensued. They sounded pretty incredible. Mark and Craig make a good singing duo.

So there it is, a very good show.[/QUOTE]

Dude, The Matches >>>> Plus 44

[QUOTE=Eliminator;13823008]Are you serious?[/QUOTE]

Deadly. I'd put Fat Mike for one as one of the best bass players in the genre.

[QUOTE=hey, you're not cory!;13854337]Dude, The Matches >>>> Plus 44[/QUOTE]

yes very much so

OZ: oh for sure man

Plus 44 are alright but there riding the success of Blink and would not be anyhting close to playing to 2500 people without Blink. Im not even sure they would be signed.

The Matches are not very good. They put on a decent show, I'll give them that much, but their music is just very, very "eh". It just seems like a lot of noise thrown together at times.

And Plus 44 is a good pop punk band.

[QUOTE=MattSharpIsCool;13857991]The Matches are not very good. They put on a decent show, I'll give them that much, but their music is just very, very "eh". It just seems like a lot of noise thrown together at times.

And Plus 44 is a good pop punk band.[/QUOTE]

Yeah bands sound like that if you hear them for the first time live.

That's not the first time I've heard them, not even the first time I've heard them live. I have one of their CD's. There is just not a lot in the way of melody in their music, and that's kind of an important component of pop punk.

I dunno, The Matches are just so creative and when you say "it seems like a whole bunch of noise thrown together" is where there appeal is. I like that you can hear each members personal contributions in the music.

If it weren't for the fact that their first cd was obviously Blink influenced I'd easily say The Matches > Blink-182.

(And for the record "Decomposer" pwns AVA and +44, on top of the last 3 blink cds a ridiculously large amount.)

[B]The Starting Line/Max Bemis/The Almost
The Electric Factory in Philadelphia PA
December 28th[/B]

[u]The Almost[/u]

Only caught like 4 or 5 of their songs. They were terrible. Aaron is a poor singer and the sound quality was just not very good at all. Their songs are just not catchy and poorly constructed. No one really seemed to be into them. It was their second show ever.

[B]4/10[/B]

[u]Max Bemis of Say Anything performs an exclusive acoustic set[/u]

Alive With The Glory Of Love
Woe
This Is F[size=2]u[/size]cking Ecstasy (New Say Anything Song)
I Want To Know Your Plans
New Say Anything Song
Belt

Max played fantastic. Everyone was singing along to all the old songs and the new songs sounded amazing. Just as witty and eccentric as the old ones. Max sang perfectly on key and had his trademark goofy voice. Great set.

[B]9/10[/B]

[U]The Starting Line[/U]

The Drama Summer
Making Love To The Camera
Up & Go
Given The Chance
Artistic License
Inspired By The $
Photography
Ready
Hello Houston
Bedroom Talk
A Goodnight's Sleep
Surprise, Surprise
The Best Of Me

Encore:
Yule Be Sorry (Ken Vasoli, Aaron Gillespie, Max Schneider)
Rocks Tonic Juice Magic [Saves The Day cover] (Ken Vasoli, Max Bemis, Aaron Gillespie, Max Schneider)

First just Mike came out and played "The Drama Summer" on electric and Ken then came out to sing it, he even went down into the crowd. The rest of the set was just nonstop energy. Ken hit every note and even played guitar for 'Ready" surprisingly well. The two new songs they played sounded fantastic. Max came out to sing the little backing part at the end of "Ready." For the encore, Ken played guitar, some random dude named Max Schneider played bass and Aaron from Underoath/The Almost played drums for the Christmas song that Ken and Aaron wrote last Christmas called "Yule Be Sorry." Then Ken took bass, Max Schneider took guitar and Max of Say Anything came out with a guitar and they all covered "Rocks Tonic Juice Magic!" Incredible.

My only complaint was that TSL had some guy playing piano for their songs because a couple songs on the new album had piano on it. However, not only did play piano for all of their songs, but it overpowered the guitars way too much. It was kind of disenchanting to see that only Mike sang the harmonies (the guy on piano overpowered a lot of those with his harmonies too) because I was looking forward to seeing them pull of their trademark 3 part harmonies live. The sound was just off in general. The bass wasn't high enough, the guitars didn't blend too well, and the piano overpowered them and sounded cheesy. But overall, a very fun experience and a great Christmas present.

[B]8/10[/B]

Sounds awesome, Chris. Seeing Max Bemis play an acoustic set would be amazing.

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In other news, I'm seeing Hatebreed tonight. :cool:

When I saw the starting line, it was incredible, it was before their newest cd came out so they only new songs they played were Ready and Bedroom talk, and then they played every song that I wanted to hear, and the show absolutely was non stop energy. In Cheek to Cheek when he says, Try and Feel, Try and Listen, Try and think of what your missing, Try to look into my eyes, TRYYYY!!!! was probly one of the best things I´ve ever heard live.

I´ve seen a lot of really good bands, and strangly the starting line is at the very top of who put on the best show.

Sounds good cb.

I'm seeing 36 Crazyfists again soon. Can't wait.
And I MIGHT be seeing Reuben and Mostly Autumn too.

[B]2006 Concert Wrap-Up[/B]
[B]
Shows[/B]: 150 (and 3 halves)

[B]Venues[/B]: 22

[B]Different Bands[/B]: 475

[B](National) Bands Seen The Most[/B]: Forgive Durden (x4), Halifax (x4), Hellogoodbye (x4), Just Surrrender (x4)

[B](Local) Bands Seen The Most[/B]: Cute Is What We Aim For (x6), Dead Hearts (x6), Speakerfire (x6)

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[B]
Coming Up In '07[/B]

Sunday 1/7 – Kill Hannah
Friday 1/12 – battle of the bands (Terror In The Sky, etc.)
Thursday 1/18 – My America Is Watching Tigers Die
Friday 1/19 – The Queers
Saturday 1/20 - Ramallah
Sunday 1/21 – "Buffalo vs. Rochester" (NoxGoal, Achilles, etc.)
Sunday 1/21 – Beres Hammond
Thursday 1/25 – The Panic Channel
Saturday 1/27 – Standard Of Living
Monday 1/29 – A Dying Dream
Friday 2/9 – The Fall Of Troy
Saturday 2/10 – Gone By Daylight
Thursday 2/22 – Jack’s Mannequin
Friday 2/23 – Amber Pacific
Sunday 2/25 – Misery Signals
Tuesday 2/27 – The Matches
Wednesday 2/28 - Anberlin
Sunday 3/11 – Anti-Flag
Tuesday 3/13 – Cartel
Thursday 3/15 – Brand New
Saturday 3/17 – Leftover Crack
Saturday 4/14 – Mono


And possibly...

Friday 1/5 – Razbari Sumthing
Saturday 1/6 – Crime In Stereo
Wednesday 1/31 – Thursday
Sunday 2/4 – Ghost Mice
Wednesday 2/14 – Mastodon
Sunday 3/25 – The Holy Mountain


...plus many more, I'm sure.


:cool:

God, I wanna see that Thursday/fbtmof tour so bad but it's stopping like 2 hours away.

WOW! Brian I can't believe you've seen THAT many shows in 2006.
Do you often go see bands you don't even know?
Also, itsn't it very expensive?

[QUOTE]WOW! Brian I can't believe you've seen THAT many shows in 2006.
Do you often go see bands you don't even know?
Also, itsn't it very expensive?[/QUOTE]
I'm an intern at a club around here, so I get to go to a lot of shows for free.

If I'm paying for the show, I usually know the band pretty well, but if I'm going for free, I'll go see bands I'm not familiar with.

I'm going to see +44 1st Feb, Yay!

Gigs coming up: Bloc Party, Brand New.

Killswitch Engage, Nightmare of You, Blood Brothers, Brand New, Senses Fail, Alexisonfire, Cursive.

I'm going to the NME Rave Tour soon. Not too big on the bands that are playing but it'll be fun anyway.

i'm going to see The Bouncing Souls next month.

Mostly local stuff,although I went to Taste of Chaos and saw

Silverstein
AILD (hate)
Atreyu (hate)
Deftones
and other good local bands who played there and last but not least
Thrice!

yeah i saw it in london, ont bro

Time to bring this thread back to life.

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I've been to a handful of shows so far this year:

Kill Hannah / The Pink Spiders / Love Arcade
My American Is Watching Tigers Die / Morning For The Masses
The Queers / The Heart Attacks / The Riptides
Achilles / NoxGoal / Borrowed Time
Beres Hammond / Marcia Griffiths / Leon & The Peoples
Thursday / Fear Before The March Of Flames / Murder By Death
The Fold / Sound The Alarm / The Graduate
The Fall Of Troy / Damiera / Portugal The Man / Tera Melos
The Apples In Stereo / Casper & The Cookies

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And this week I'm seeing:

Mastodon / Converge / Priestess
Lovedrug (acoustic set) / +locals
The New Amsterdams / +locals
Under the Influence Of Giants / +locals
Olympia / Dance Gavin Dance

:D

I'll be seeing Sonic Youth on Thursday and maybe Gwen Stefani in May.

So, last night I traveled an hour to see the [B]West Coast Winter Tour[/B], featuring Jack's Mannequin, Head Automatica, The Audition, and We Are The Fury. The show sold out about a month in advance, so the room was completely packed.


[B]We Are The Fury[/B] kicked off the show, which came as a surprise, because no had even mentioned them being on the show. Either way, their set was fun, and thy seemed to get everyone excited for the night ahead, even though I don't think most people knew who they were.


[B]The Audition[/B] played second. I like them on CD, but they weren't great live. The singer claimed he was sick, so I suppose that could have been why. The crowd seemed to have a pretty split reaction.


[B]Head Automatica[/B] played third, and as usual, they were great. They played a decent mix of new and old songs, and they had a lot of energy. You could Daryl had been playing shows with Glassjaw prior to this tour, because he was screaming a lot more than usual.

The only part of their set that was disappointing was that no one seemed to be into it, which was kind of strange. I've seen Head Automatica three times now, and they usually get a great reception.


By the time [B]Jack's Mannequin[/B] came on, everyone was thoroughly excited. Most every was there to see them, and the whole room was packed.

[U]Setlist[/U]:

"Holiday From Real"
"I'm Ready"
"Kill The Messenger"
"Miss Delaney"
"Last Straw"
"Mixed Tape"
"Lonely For Her"
"Rescued"
"Dark Blue"
"She Paints Me Blue"
"Punk Rock Princess"
"Bruised"
"Into The Airwaves"

Encore:

"La La Lie (West Coast Winter)"
"Message In A Bottle" (The Police cover)
"Made For Each Other"

The set started with "Holiday From Real" playing over the sound system, without the band actually playing. The band hit the stage part way through the song, to one of the loudest receptions I've ever heard (mainly girls screaming for Andrew). They finished out "Holiday From Real", and then went on to play "I'm Ready", "Kill The Messenger", and "Miss Delaney" from their album, [I]Everything In Transit[/I].

Andrew then spent a little bit of time talking about the world's current state, and how everyone needed to revert back to peace and love. He followed this by explaining the story behind, and playing the b-side, "Last Straw". For a b-side, everyone seemed to know the words.

The band then went on to play a handful of songs off of the album, including "Mixed Tape", "Lonely For Her", "Rescued", and "Dark Blue". Andrew then began to talk about his past, and how he had no regrets about anything in it. At this point, I had chills running through my body in anticipation of what I thought was about to happen, and... it did.

Andrew proceeded to play two songs from his Something Coporate days: "She Paints Me Blue", which he called the predecessor to "Dark Blue", and "Punk Rock Princess". It was amazing. I don't think I've ever seen a crowd so excited about any two songs, either.

The band finished their 'main set' with "Bruised" and "Into the Airwaves", before leaving the stage, knowing full well they would be enthusiastically brought back for an encore.

The encore started off with a slightly different version of "La La Lie", which Andrew said was the original, 'West Coast Winter' version. He then went on to say that they would be playing a cover of a song called "Message in a Bottle", but instead of saying who it was a cover of, he said that anyone who didn't know needed to 'do their reading'. (I had to ask my dad :-\, it ended up being the Police).

The night ended with the band playing "Made For Each Other". Halfway through the song, the lead singer of The Audition joined Andrew on stage to sing. At this point, Andrew dove into the crowd, knocking a camera from the security guard's hand, and began 'swimming' toward the back. He must have gone over a patch of girls, because he ended up falling on to the floor, where he continued to sing the song.

Once he got back on stage, Andrew introduced his band, letting each member do a solo. They then went on to finished the song, at the end of which, Andrew stood on top of his piano, bowed and said good night.


Overall, it was possibly the best set I've ever seen. Andrew's voice was spot-on, the band was amazing, Andrew interacted well with the crowd, they played every song off their album, and the set was never once boring. Oh, and seeing Andrew play two Something Corporate songs was more than I ever imagined. The thought had crossed my mind before the show, but I never thought it would actually happen.

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So, it was well worth the hour drive out to Rochester, the hellacious ride home (snow was insane, couldn't see the road, etc.)


Oh, and just a note: My dad ended up being closer to the stage than I was, because he got invited up to the VIP balcony about halfway through the show, by the promoter of the show (who we've gotten to know pretty well). I was jealous.


And, one more think. I'm already calling Jack's Mannequin for best live performance of the year. Incredible.


:D :D :D :D

jacks mannequin is effing sweet live i seen videos and shi

JM are incredible live. Andrew is quite the performance artist. I love when he ends the set by like stomping on the piano and s[size=2]h[/size]it. "Made For Each Other" is such an awesome closer. Did he walk around with the video camera onstage and film the audience?

They didn't play Kill The Messenger????? I love that song. I want to go see JM live so bad I was going to this month but it fell through.

[QUOTE]They didn't play Kill The Messenger?????[/QUOTE]
Haha, I accidently left it off the list. :p

i went to a primus concert a few months ago it was so awesome, a girl flashed him in the middle of jerry was a racecar driver and he was like dog will hunt! and then it went back into the song. the whole room was hotboxed and i smoked 2 fat joints it was awesome

[QUOTE=Mute Print;14270681]Haha, I accidently left it off the list. :p[/QUOTE]

Ahhh okay good good.

I went to see [b]Reuben[/b] last night. And it was an awesome night.

The doors opened late, and we got seriously cold, but who cares, it was going to be awesome, I got ticket 69 so blatently. And my friend bought her ticket on the day, and it was only ticket 114, so not many people were going evidently, was the Ski Lodge in Yeovil, and capacity is only 300 odd, but this was going to be a quiet gig. We got to the front barrier, and stayed there throughout the first two bands.

The first support band came on, the bassist was awesome, well he had a lovely bass, and the best shoes and trousers, I was in awe. And he was japanese, and sang in tune. heh laura funni. They had a keyboardist too, had a Roland keyboard, shame it sounded like a guitar, oh well. I thought they were awesome, loads of singing and lovely tunes. They did become samy after a while, but they were good, wish I knew who they were.

Then the other support band came on, after much waiting. [b]Sucioperro[/b]. I had never heard of them, but they were pretty good, reminded me of Sigur Ros mixed with some punk band I'd heard. They were scottish and weird, couldn't understand what they were saying between songs, the sound man screwed up and the mics weren't working at the beginning, and the singer was a moody bastard, but he could play intricate stuff whilst singing so it was pretty good. I liked them in any case.

Then [b]Reuben[/b] graced the stage, the drummer was so cute with lovely new tattoos. The bassist looked lovely. But what could be said for the singer, well he was wearing a hospital throw gown thing, with only boxers underneath, not so hot. But it was funny. They played an awesome set, were really nice guys, and I got pushed back into the pit. They didn't play Freddy Kreuger or Stux, but oh well, they played stuff off the new album, racecar is racecar backwards, which in all honesty was the only one I'd heard before hand, really. I got a few elbows in the kidneys in the pit, and got headbutted in the process too. But was really fun. They were very very good, was an awesome night.


Brian, I am very jealous you get to see Converge and Mastodon in one gig. Man that would have been awesome. But I may be seeing them in July. :o

[QUOTE=Firecracker;14273372]
Brian, I am very jealous you get to see Converge and Mastodon in one gig. Man that would have been awesome. But I may be seeing them in July. :o[/QUOTE]
The show ended up cancelling due to snow. :(

I think they're trying to reschedule though.

Oh my! They better. I would be so upset if that happened to me.