So since I've recently rediscovered my passion for writing again (or typing, rather) I've decided from this day forth to write a journal of my experiences in hardcore. Sure there are many things that happened in the past 3 years that were also important to me but I'd say it's better late than never. I don't know who would be reading this in the future, but this is just another outlet one could say. So here it goes.
Thursday night (yesterday) Mike and Kyle picked me up because we had a show at the venue Anchors Up in Haverhill, MA. The bill was The Rival Mob, True Colors, Alert, Street Sweeper and Caught In A Crowd. Wolf Whistle was supposed to play but something happened and they had to drop off. So we headed out, picking up our crusty friend, Nick Pajak, along the way. Fast forward we get to the show around 7pm ish and the show hadn't started, which I was glad about since I wanted to see all of the bands. So we got there and set up our shirts, which was a second batch of the yellow ink on black shirt that Jay Jacoby had stirred up for us since the first ones got burned in an unfortunate housefire. We also had probably half a dozen 7"s left so it was cool to actually have stuff at a show for once.
So then the first band, Caught In A Crowd played and they were fucking awesome. They were way tighter live than I expected (I always say that though I don't really know what I expect to begin with) but they killed it and did a Bold cover. I just missed the first song because I was outside briefly with a couple friends. A lot of kids from Cape Cod came out to support the show which was cool too.
Second band that played was Street Sweeper. They were heavier new york style which I'm all about, but their set was a bit sloppy. Regardless I was into it and would see them again for sure. I made sure to grab one of their demos.
Next was us, Alert. This show would be our first with our new drummer, Brendan, who actually sang in the Rival Mob. We've only practiced about 3 times and they weren't very consistent at all so I was a bit nervous about how things would turn out, even though he did learn the songs extremely fast when we did practice. We opened with Find Your Way and pretty much played the whole demo except for Stay Alert. We also covered Sick Of It All and Turning Point which had cool reactions. I guess we sounded good which was cool to hear.
After us was True Colors. Let me just say that True Colors is my favorite current band in hardcore and it was fucking awesome to not only see them, but play a show on their last US tour. They were ridiculously good and it should be cool seeing them 3 more times on their tour. They covered Straight Ahead, Warzone, and Youth Of Today and you can't go wrong with that!
Last was Boston's own Rival Mob. As usual, Brendan's stage banter was hilarious and their songs were awesome. Kids were into it, though I'm extremely excited to see how RIchmond is gonna be since I heard that when they played there with Free Spirit a little while ago it was absolutely insane.
So that was the show. Kids bought shit which was cool, and I got to talk to a lot of people I haven't seen in a while. I had with my a piece of luggage with some clothes and shit and my laptop because I'd be leaving to Richmond Virginia for United Blood fest that night. I rode along with my boy Brian who sings in Caught In A Crowd and this kid John, who is also cool. We actually entered Virginia not too long ago finally after driving through the night and stopping at a Jersey rest stop for 4 hours to sleep in the car. So that's about it. In the car now rocking out to Shelter's album Mantra as we draw closer to RIchmond. Today should turn out to be pretty awesome. Peace!
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