United Blood day 1 was pretty fun. We got there and there was already a line. I saw a bunch of people I knew which was cool and then stood in line. The only interesting thing about waiting in line was some drunk homeless guy calling someone (not sure if this person existed) a "faggot" and that he wanted to fight them. So fast forward we get inside and I decide to get the True Colors merchrun out of the way. We played with them the night before but I didn't really get anything then and wanted to get stuff people they over crowded with people (which didn't really happen) but I got this sweet basebell jacket among other things. Let me just say this now I do like a lot of current hardcore bands as there aren't many bands I don't like, but on the real I mostly went to United Blood to see True Colors as many times as possible on their tour and see a bunch of friends that I would only see at fests. With that said I didn't really watch Dry Spell much though from what I heard they sounded pretty damn sweet. Donnybrook really isn't my thing but some of their songs I was really feeling. Backtrack was fucking awesome and they are everything I imagine when it comes to current bands doing the NYHC thing. True Colors has an amazing reaction as there were a lot more kids here than Haverhill and I'm fucking stoked for them. Awesome set as usual and tons of kids were into it, stagediving, piling up and singing along. My friend Easy from Virginia, who was originally supposed to drive up to Haverhill for the show and drive back bringing me, also missed True Colors here because he got stuck in thick DC traffic. After True Colors me Brian, John, and Cendrowski headed to this falafel place and man was it delicious. We were there talking almost 3 hours and didn't even realizing it and we missed Swamp Thing, Naysayer, Alpha & Omega, Dead End Path's suprise set, and probably one band I'm forgetting. Oh well. I missed Title Fight's set too but it was because Mr. Taylor Steele of Four Wall Falling fame found me and me him and my friend Joey were talking outside about 80s hardcore which was pretty cool. I'm kinda forgetful of what happened but Easy finally arrived and he was bummed to miss True Colors. I ended up checking out the Triple B table to learn yet another Floorpunch show was gonna happen in June which I got stoked on.
So Paint It Black blew me away and I missed Death Threat. I'm not big into really crowded shows. After the show we followed Eric back to the hotel, which was farther away from the venue than we had imagined. It was also a pretty sweet hotel called Hillton and there were 8 of us in a room booked for 2. They ended up being really cool dudes so it was cool. The conversations they were having were pretty insane too. But anyway we went to sleep around 1:30 or so instead of going to Econolodge where everyone else I knew just so happened to be staying. And that ended day 1 of United Blood.
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