Show Journal 2004-08-14
Another late night and strangely action packed evening at Reid’s. Malignant was up first and sounded pretty good with the full volume of Reid’s at their disposal. Much heavier sounding than the Astoria show last month. I missed the second band because I went for food at Wendy’s and 10 minutes later paid the price in the Safeway bathroom. During this time I got a call from This Day’s End who’s van had broken down a few miles from Longview with most of their gear in it. Jim wound up having to drive our van over to them, pick up all their stuff and haul it back over to Reid’s. Because of the vehicle mishap BXF ended up having to play 3rd. It was Kellee’s last show singing for them and we were all admittedly a little sad to see her go as we’ve played a lot of shows with them over the past year or two. It was a pretty solid send off and definitely the best show I’ve seen them play yet. This Day’s End set up next and played a pretty frantic and energetic set of screamy hardcore. It’s gotta be tough concentrating on playing when you have no idea how you are going to get home. We were up next and I think this could have quite possibly been the most fun I’ve had playing this year. Not the biggest show we’ve ever had in Longview but definitely one of the most enthusiastic. There were people all over the stage, moving around in and out of the crowd and it seemed like a ton of people knew the words. It was hot, loud, a little rowdy and totally fun. Thank you Longview. Eyekon was up last and surprised me. Why? Normally if you asked me to watch white rappers from Longview I’d just smile and say “no thanks”. I took a chance and seriously I thought they were pretty damn entertaining. Who knew? Thanks to TJ for the show hookup and all who stayed late.
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