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The Gwar show was a success. The Stavesacre show was not. The destroy ‘Swank’ contest was completed this weekend in a climax that involved 350 CD’s, 10 guns, 400 rounds of ammo and a small armored vehicle. Video highlights will be coming within the month. There are only 50 copies left of the ill fated CD and you can get one at our upcoming shows if you mention the secret phrase: “Dude, can I have a copy of Swank”.
Show Journal 2002-10-28
I don’t even know where to start. I loved and hated this show at the same time. I loved it because we finally met and hung out with Flatus. They have in depth knowledge of Dio as well as Digital Underground and we therefore see them as equals. Plus they rocked. Believing in June played a great set and although they were definitely not my usual thing Stavesacre put on a solid set as well. So what was the bad part? Our set. 30 minutes of torture for us and apparently the audience as well. Technically we played well but the crowd response was zero. Nil. Nothing. Nada. Literally we would finish a song and out of a room full of people I could count the number of people clapping on one hand. By the second song some people started heading towards the door. The clincher was when some dude in the front of the crowd sat down and covered his ears for the last two songs. I’m not a violent person but I have never so badly wanted to walk into the audience and just kick someone in the fucking teeth. I can’t stand kids who are too cool for punk. To lower my opinion of the show even further as we were loading out a friend of the second band said that the show was “awful” because “the other 3 bands all sucked”. Thanks asshole. To put our utter and complete lack of connection with the crowd into perspective out of 150 people we sold $2.50 worth of merch. Ten more cents and we can each buy a taco. There was one highlight though that is worth mentioning. During ‘New Song #2’ Justin fell off the front of the stage and flat on his back! Right down to the concrete! The cool thing was (and I swear this is not embellished) he continued to play the song perfectly while laying on the sanitationally unsound floor of the Meow Meow! Extra big thanks to Flatus for being cool as hell.
Show Journal 2002-10-26
I just spent the past 15 minutes attempting to scrub off a mixture of blood, semen and urine from my face and arms. This means either one of two things … I just got back from another bukkake party at Dave’s house or I just saw Gwar. Thankfully it was the latter. Seeing Gwar is a pleasure enough for me (this being my 5th time) but getting to share the bill with them totally made my day! The show tonight was very unique and very cool because there was so much happening. On the ground floor they had a small stage open for the bands and performance art groups plus an even smaller stage for go-go dancers in between acts. The second floor had the main stage for the “real” bands and the bigger performance art groups (body modification … ewww!) and two more platforms for even more go-go dancers. Since it was a Halloween show we decided to get into the act and play with zombie makeup and blood. Not quite as gory as the album cover but pretty gnarly for sure. (Did I really just say gnarly?) We kind of thought we were getting screwed for a while because we ended up having to play on the considerably smaller lower stage and at the same time as another band played upstairs on the main stage! In fact when we started our set there were maybe 30 people watching us at most. However as we kept playing more and more people kept rolling in from upstairs and by the end of our set the whole room was packed with people watching and cheering which was an amazing feeling. It’s not nice to be competitive with other bands but I gotta admit it was very heart warming to know there were more people watching us on the small stage than watching the band in the main room! I could talk at great length about how good this made us feel but this review is getting too damn long. All in all the show was fantastic. Thanks to Daria and Gustav for helping us get and stay on the bill, our Seattle posse of zombies, our Portland posse of doctors, witches and those who arrived sans-costume, Lee for the rad makeup job (again), Lyle for hanging at the merch table and of course Severina for making everything run so smoothly.
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Has anyone in Portland seen the ad for the Gwar show in the local papers? Our name is so small it’s practically indistinguishable to the human eye! Still it’s the same page as Gwar so we are very happy. Anyway, if you are coming out to the show be sure to arrive early as we are playing first. Also, for those of you who aren’t 21 we just added an all ages show at the Meow Meow for Monday the 28th.
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Thanks to all who attended tonight’s chat except for Tim because everyone hates him! Oh yeah, Swank destruction has been rescheduled for Oct. 27th.
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The new shirts and patches are in and ready for sale. We’re still working on getting some real photographs!
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This week’s headlines … 1) We get to play at the Crystal Ballroom in November. Amen. 2) Submissions for the Swank contest are over. Destruction commences on 10/13. The remaining CD’s will be taken to shows and distributed free of charge to people “in the know”. 3) We’re having another chat on 10/16. Bring your questions and insults. 4) New shirts and patches arrive soon … like next week soon.
Album Review
800 Octane has recently released their third full length album, The Return. To me it sounds like someone threw the Exploited, Misfits, some Dicators/Ramones sounding stuf, and a little bit of that newer poppier punk rock in a big blender. Seen as that’s a lot to say you might as well call them Super Rock as everyone else does. This is a new energy fill disc with harmonies and melodies. Packed up with a super unique variety of songs. “Next Exit” and “New Song 2” are on more of the melodic love song type thing, but then there is really aggressive, hardcore songs such as “Day of the Dead” and “Five Across the Eyes.” After a while I find it almost impossible not sing along to. I definetly suggest going and considering this album. 800 Octane has recently released their third full length album, The Return. To me it sounds like someone threw the Exploited, Misfits, some Dicators/Ramones sounding stuf, and a little bit of that newer poppier punk rock in a big blender. Seen as that’s a lot to say you might as well call them Super Rock as everyone else does. This is a new energy fill disc with harmonies and melodies. Packed up with a super unique variety of songs. “Next Exit” and “New Song 2” are on more of the melodic love song type thing, but then there is really aggressive, hardcore songs such as “Day of the Dead” and “Five Across the Eyes.” After a while I find it almost impossible not sing along to. I definetly suggest going and considering this album. (Tony / Punk Avenue)
Show Journal 2002-09-21
I can’t believe it had been a year and a half since our last Satyricon show. Amazingly enough there were actually people there this time. Compact 56 started out and bludgeoned everyone with rock. Loud, aggressive, in your face and just awesome. They get better with each show. The Jimmies were next offering up good, solid, catchy songs but we’ve grown to expect that from them. Up third was the Hellside Stranglers. We practice down the hall from them so it was nice to actually see them play their instruments rather than hearing them through the walls. They rocked … good vocals and awesome guitar parts … very cool. Our set was good. People stuck around and cheered which is not the Satyricon that we remember. All in all a good show. After the show things started getting a little weird. We saw some good friends get in a fight, we saw people that we don’t know get in a fight, we saw some slutty drunk girls get in a fight, we saw another set of slutty drunk girls yelling at drunk guys, then we saw someone vomit outside the club, and the grand finale was Dave witnessing someone getting a hummer in a car parked next to van … it was just a weird night. I didn’t really want to leave because I felt like I would miss something. Trying to extend the excitment Dan and I cruised around the block for a while looking for more entertainment however we quickly realized the grasping hand of excitement usually passes right by two guys who smell like the Satyricon and are listening to Slayer while rolling in a station wagon. Thanks to everyone who came out to see us … you know who you are!
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At long last we officially have a new drummer. Everyone please welcome Dan to the band! Dan has previously played with .44 Caliber Heroes, Naming Asher and Anything That’s Left. Big thanks to everyone who tried out … amazingly everyone we played with was totally cool and actually made it kind of fun. Extra special shot out’s go to Damon for driving from all the way from Montana and Josh for sacrificing his car (long story). Dan’s first “official” show will be tomorrow night at The Satyricon.
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