it's been a few months since i've updated this. i wish i had an excuse but im just fucking lazy. who cares. i'll try to update more often though
anyways! so just looking at the title, you could guess there was way too many fucking bands playing this gig. but it's all good. there's a couple i didn't watch cuz i needed to snack and get a cold drink and shit but i'll do my best to review this. off we go... oh yeah, go check out pics of the gig on Future Breed.
so heather and i got to the venue around 7:15, the show was supposed to start around 6 so i was kinda illin' cuz i figured we'd be late. i also thought we were lost + didnt end up at the right spot but when i saw people walk around with guitar heads i figured we were at the right place. we got inside and stick together was setting up cuz some of the bands from DC were late or something. i had time to say what's up to some buds and shoot the shit with everyone for a bit before it started so that was cool.
so stick together kicked it off with X treatment, and everyone got moving quick. i still had my jacket on but made the wise decision to chuck it halfway thru the first song. i might retire from varsity jacket moshing unless it's at edge day. anyways, i don't really have much to say about their set except the banter between songs was funny as usual, everyone moshed and everyone had a good time. most people knew the words to both the demo and 7" songs so it was a pretty constant sing along up front. they covered ssd - glue and side by side - living a lie. word. and of course they had some ill merch.
mob mentality played after, i never heard of em but i thought they were pretty cool. i was hanging out on the side cuz i was already winded and it was hot as fuck in that place. + the fact that i didn't have water and ate like crap before the show didn't help things much. anyway i thought their set was pretty cool, a couple kids were moving around too but i think the heat was alredy starting to suck everyone's energy out. i dunno how to describe them but check em out, it's worth a listen.
give got up on stage after, for those who haven't heard them, keith summed it up as "if swiz and supertouch had a baby". i can't help but agree. for their whole set everyone was just chillin' in front of the stage bobbing heads and having a good time. i can't say i'm very familiar with their material but last night was definately a good incentive to check em out in more detail. i caught word that theyre playing with Mindset in toronto in the spring, so im gonna try to go out there and check that gig out.
after their set me and a couple others decided to go where the concession machines were in some other building, and basically it was a pain in the ass to get our shit cuz one machine didnt work at all but gave change (basically spit out dimes and nickels), one other machine didnt work either, one was fine and the last one only had diet coke left... but after figuring out logistics i managed to walk away with my bag of nacho cheese doritos and a bottle of diet coke. drinking something felt good. we all just hung out there for a while, shooting the shit, talking about sneakers and other random stuff which caused me to miss the two next bands.
when i went back to the venue vaccine was just wrapping up their set and coke bust were about to play. im not usually a fan of really fast shit but they do it right and they were fucking cool last night. not a band i'm very familiar with but they had some cool songs, i was just hanging out on the side watching. people got into them and shit so that was cool.
free spirit played after, it was basically what i came to expect and a bit more. good songs, people moshed, everyone had a good time. they played a Rampage cover, that was fuckin cool. they played the intro from the demo which i was stoked on. asides from that it was a blend of demo and 7" songs. again, a good time.
rival mob wrapped up the night and i was chillin on the side of the stage for the first half of the set trying to recoup from what was a pretty hot/long night. i did end up in the pit after tho. anyway, unless youve had your head up your ass for the past two years you know what the fuck they sound like. it was a average rival mob set: funny shit being said between songs, jabs being taken on BOLD*, people going off hard and the band being mad tight. nothing else to say about this. awesome as usual.
so after a long night of pitting, snacking, singing along and some other things we picked up, said goodbye to our buds and left. we put in denny's in her gps but i guess her thing is outdated cuz we ended up at a pub 99, which was closed. with no dennys in the immediate vicinity we settled on burger king. i was a bit skeptical at first cuz the veggie burger in canada is mediocre to okay, but the one in the states is made with a morning star patty. it was probably the best veggie burger ive had in a while so i was stoked on it. we put gas in the car, i got a gatorade and we hit the road, back to her house. i crashed immediately.
p.s. stay away from McDonalds Ice Cream.
p.p.s. *i love BOLD
p.s. stay away from McDonalds Ice Cream.
p.p.s. *i love BOLD
burger king rules.
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