Important Events / Shows

Sam Black Church *8 at Zootz, The Garage (old and New), and Gecko's
Tree *2 at Zootz
Polyglot Zootz 1995. I caught a 95 demo tape. But just the cassette. Someone else caught the tape. I convinced them to give it to me. Mike Small may have caught the tape. So def 95.
@ The State Theater Portland Maine: Showcase Showdown, Honkeyball, and The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones
The Rustic Overtones *A Lot, at The Yarmouth VFW, Gray Legion, Gorham High School, The State Theater, and more
@Granny Killiams Portland Maine: The Pist, Thumper, more
@The Old Garage Portland Maine: Poogus I played a tune or two
1996 @The Pavillion Portland Maine: The Pietasters, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
@Zootz Portland Maine: The Hi-Hats, Venice Shoreline Chris and Let's Go Bowling
@Zootz Portland Maine: The Skoidats
@Zootz Portland Maine: Johnny Too Bad and The Strikeouts and more
@The CT Bike Exchange Bristol CT: The Trust, Follow Through, Ensign, and Fastbreak
October 1997(??) @The Space Worcester Mass: ???, The Trust, Torn Apart, and Turmoil (I bought a Turmoil soccer jersey. What was I thinking?)
Right Brigade + others @ The Fermata Club Portland ME
The A-Team, xThe Gamex @ Worcester State College (shut down due to fireworks going off in the student center microwave ...)
Stop And Think, xThe Gamex, What Feeds The Fire, Full Contact and XfilesX @ Reflections New Bedford MA (I got the SNT grey shirt and a TFS tour demo 7" on blue)
H2O @ the Met Cafe Providence RI (FTTW era, rainy and SUPER swampy inside)
Ignite @ Lupo's '99?
Somewhere in Philly 99-01?: Bane. Rolled down in the van, max milgrim was there. Raining like crazyness. Or super swampy in the venue. I remember getting my first free Bane shirt at that show. I needed one due to being so sweaty, bane logo shirt. No stage dive rule. I stage dove some. Crowd was super chill. No one was feeling it.
6 Going on 7 @ Bill's Bar
In My Eyes, Bane, Death By Stereo, Adamantium, The Hope Conspiracy, Face Tomorrow (Aram band) @ The Palladium Summer 2k (They crashed at my house that night, and on the way there, we got pulled over because the headlights didn't work. We did get a cop escort to my house though.)
AN/Converge/THC 1st night of tour @ Met Cafe '01 (??)
Jim C. Halloween show at Fat Cats Springfield MA
In My Eyes, Good Clean Fun ... @ Some College in CT (dude in good clean fun leaned wrong and broke his leg. IME covered PX and only Joey C went off.)

October 22, 1994 @ American Legion Hall Gray, ME: Pehz, Poogus (ticket stub)
April 8 1995 @Sullivan's Gym Portland Maine: Karate, Unwound, and Fugazi
December 7, 1995 @Raoul's Portland Maine: Active Culture, and The Skatalites Dancing during sound checks
March 1, 1996 @ Sullivan Gym Portland ME: Chucklehead, Fly Spanish Fly, Rustic Overtones
May 15, 1996 @ Lewiston Civic Center Lewiston ME: Mighty, Mighty Bosstones
October 15, 1996 @Zootz Portland Maine: Earth Crisis, One King Down
December 7, 1996 @UNH Fieldhouse NH: Mighty, Mighty Bosstones & Rustic Overtones (ticket stub) (My mom wouldn't let me go due to SNOW, lots of it.)
December 23rd 1996 @Johnson Hall Gardiner Maine: The Studs (Woo-Hoo) Big Meat Hammer, and Doc Hopper
March 22th 1997 @Zootz Portland Maine: Polyglot, All Out War, Blood For Blood, Ground Zero, and Fleshold
March 29th 1997 @Zootz Portland Maine: Polyglot, The Voorhees, Crosscurrent, and Hatebreed
May 10th 1997 @Zootz Portland Maine: Havior, Polyglot (final show), and One King Down
May 16th 1997 @My High School G-NG Maine: Shit Bands, and 13 Ghosts
June 14 1997 @Zootz Portland Maine: Snapcase, Cast Iron Hike, Eventide and Ground Zero (Snapcase covered She. Hindsight: Jeff T.)
September 27 1997 @ Zootz Portland ME: Sam Black Church, ... (ticket stub)
October 10th, 1997 @ The Space Worcester Mass: The Battle Of The Network Stars, Miltown, Bane, and Piebald (Get High??)
October 11th 1997 @The Espresso Bar Worcester Mass: Shed, fortydaysrain, A Day In The Life, and V.O.D.
October 27th 1997 @Lewiston Civic Center Lewiston Maine; The Amazing Royal Crowns, Dropkick Murphys, Bim Skala Bim, and The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones
November 1st 1997 @The Space Worcester Mass: Fastbreak, Close Call, The Trust, Ten Yard Fight and In My Eyes
Novemeber 8th 1997 @Riley Commons Wpi Worcester Mass: Piebald, and Dinosaur Jr.
December 6th 1997 @Riley Commons Worcester Mass: The Nonions, Golgo, Inspector 7, and Mephiskapheles
December 13th 1997 @The Safe And Sound Rochester NH: Against All, Fault, Bane, and Ten Yard Fight
December 14th 1997 @The Melody Bar New Brunswick NJ: ???, Ten Yard Fight, Bane, and Cause For Alarm
December 15th 1997 @The 180 Club Hagerstown MD: Yuletide Hardcore Fest: Rancor, Fastbreak, Floorpunch, Rain On The Parade, Ensign, Ten Yard Fight, and Bane (Rolled with Bane. Stayed at Jon Hennessey's house the night before. Neumann tried to buy a 40oz at a gas station with a florida license. The guy wouldn't sell to him. Neumann was sxe at the time. Weird. Bought an Atari shirt, gave it to Ben. Got a wacked Fastbreak cassette. Best show.)
Decemeber 29th 1997 @The Space Worcester Mass: Holdstrong, Torn Apart, Ten Yard Fight(They played a few, lacking Clevo, but with Steve Kim instead), and Bane
January 30th 1998 @The Espresso Bar Worcester Mass: Comic Book Superheroes, 7/10 Split, Big Lick, and The Toasters
January 31th 1998 @Emerson College Boston Mass: All Chrome, Reaction, The Year Of Our Lord, fortydaysrain, Days Gone, Ensign, and Endeavor
February 14th 1998 @The Safe and Sound Rochester NH: Reaction, Barrit, Holdstrong, and Bane(Aaron wasn't in a very positive mood)
February 21th 1998 @Reflections New Bedford Mass:Get High, Lynchpin, All Chrome, and Bane(Bane's 50 show, and 2 year anniversary)
March 6th, 7th, and 8th 1998 @Notre Dame VFW Wayne Michigan: (6th) Hamilton, Inept, Uranium 9 Volt, (???),Thoughts Of Ionesco, Demon Speed, Bluetip, Los Crudos (7th) Trocar, Trephine (Skinner's Mosh-Metal Band) Grade, Sarge, Young Pioneers, The Banner Trio, Quixote, Morning Again, Braid, Hot Water Music, (8th) Empire State Games, Compound Red, Harriet The Spy, Wallside, Bane and Harvest (Quick note: We showed those kids how to enlighten the no fun fest, dancing on tables and being obnoxious in every manner possible.)
March 19th 1998 @The Grind/Clark Worcester Mass: Dion Knibb and The Agitators, and The New York Ska Jazz Ensemeble
March 22th 1998 @The Middle East Boston Mass: Diecast(??), fortydaysrain, Darkest Hour, Bane and Ten Yard Fight (Note: Mike's nose busted, Free T-Shirt, Stupid Kids backflip)
March 27th 1998 @UCONN Connecticut: Time Will Tell, Bane, Follow Through, Sum Of All Fears (Bands played on the tiled floor, One of the first shows Ben Chused filled in on, plus one of the first shows where the COS cover was played, free vegan peanut butter cookies from Kim Chiz...)
April 4th 1998 @Trinity College Hartford Ct: Autumn Ruins, Bricks Without Straw, Cavein, and Boy Sets Fire
April 9th 1998 @ClarkU Worcester Mass: De La Soul
April 10th 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: Aurora, The Marshes, and Doc Hopper
April 16th 1998 @Infinitys Springfield Mass: The Year Of Our Lord, Barrit, Cavein, Pieblad, Bane, Shai Hulud, and Bloodlet
April 17th 1998 @Riley Commons WPI Worcester Mass: The Snappaheads, and The Locals (The first show, and nearly a riot)
April 18th 1998 @Infinitys Springfield Mass: Isis, Cable, Boy Sets Fire, Shadows Fall, Drowning Man, Turmoil, Grade, Coalesce, and Semi-Converge (Damon broke down with the van or something, so never made it to the show. That part sucked. Jake and Other played a noise set for 20-25 minutes that was cool.)
April 24th 1998 @Assumption College Worcester Mass: The Allstonians, hippie bands (Snuck in past many security guards, was the only Allstonians fan there).
April 24th 1998 @The Palladium Worcester Mass: The Toasters, and Less Than Jake (Another show in one night, and snuck in also. Raised the roof, and stage dove all in one night.)
April 25th 1998 @Harrington Gym, WPI Worcester Mass: Spring Heeled Jack (All I could think of was floor punching.)
April 26th 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: All Chrome, Close Call, Reach The Sky, Yum Yum Tree, Ten Yard Fight, and Bane
May 3rd 1998 @The Tune Inn New haven CT: Time Will Tell, Voice Of Reason, Rain On The Parade, Up Front, Follow Through, Fastbreak, and Tenfold reunion (It was a benefit for trash and was taped for a live comp on Revelation records. It was just another CT show except Fastbreak and ROTP played really well, and Tenfold reunion was funny.)
May 5th 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: Error: Type 11, Grade, Hot Water Music, and Converge (A good show, except Jenn's car got broken in to, and someone stole Adriann's bag and her life savings of 10 dollars)
May 8th 1998 @Reflections New Bedford Mass: Smacking Isaiah, Grade, All Chrome, and Hot Water Music (Kids moshed for HWM, enough said)
May 11th 1998 @242 Burlington VT: Shutdown, and Bane (Ten Yard Fight was supposed to play, but a riot prevented them from playing. Maddrunk kids messing with Mass kids = bloodied frat boys. No fighting for me. I played the protective friend for Kated.)
May Something 1998 @Middle East Boston Mass: Pieblad, Ann Bereta, and Avail
June Something 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: Proclamation, Reach The Sky, Ten Yard Fight and Bane
June 29, 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: 6 Going On 7, Elliot, Halobox, Garrison
June 30 1998 @34 John St Basement Worcester Mass: Skit System and More (I had more on my mind than a show, though. I missed it almost entirely. I did help with directions to food.)
July 04, 1998 @ Washington DC: Road Trip: Chillin on the mall with fireworks (Jaymo and I decided at 4am to drive to DC, him to chill with Aimee, me to chill hard)
July 15, 1998 @The Middle East Boston Mass: The Allstonians, The New York Ska Jazz Ensemble, and Laurel Aitken(He loves me, and they played a song twice.)
July 16 1998 @The Met Cafe Providence RI: Speak 714, Battery, In My Eyes, and Better Than A Thousand (Rad show, Rev tour)
July 18 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: Fragment, Wrath, Countervail, Diecast, Barrit, The Year Of Our Lord, fortydaysrain, and Bane (The longest show in existence, 2 to 9. Sheist sheisted us.)
July 19 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: Tipping Canoe (Free but we were too late for the rest)
August 8 1998 @The Palladium Worcester Mass: H2O (Sk8 98, for free)
August 15 1998 @The Palladium Worcester Mass: AFI, Good Riddance, Snapcase (It was ok, and free.)
August 16 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: Saves The Day, Barrit, Harvest, The Sheist, Bane (Out of control amazing.)
August 23 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: My Lai (Wonderful kids, interesting band.)
August 28 1998 @Riley Commons WPI Worcester Mass: Regatta 69, Metrostylee, Skinnerbox (Free, but slightly crazed out. Regatta 69 was the best band of the evening.)
September 4 1998 @The Church Boston Mass: Open Up, Reach The Sky, Fastbreak, Bane, Ten Yard Fight
September 5 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: Emil Beaulieau, Laurence Cook Disaster Unit, and Borbetomagus (Noise, baby, Noise)
September 9, 1998 @ Billy Willy's CT: Bane, Reach The Sky, Fear Tomorrow, Trial (weird show, Trial was supposed to play elsewhere in CT that night, but the show got cancelled and Trial played at Billy Willy's instead. This may or may not have been the same show where Fear Tomorrow played, and Craig Mack was wearing a gas mask and throwing stools. Also, I had just stolen a Trial sweatshirt from Dalbec and wore it to the show. I was almost that dude, except I had a sweet Iron Maiden shirt to wear. WAY too small though, but free from the dryer. Yes, the dryer.)
September 23 1998 @The Grind ClarkU Worcester Mass: Frank Black
September 24 1998 @Games And Lanes Agawam Mass: Fahrenheit 451, Bane, Blood For Blood, and Underdog (Well played show, but no energy. Premiere of Zach's new song, good as hell.)
September 25 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: Johnny Too Bad and The Strikeouts, Green Island, The Locals (We played well, and had fun. This was the show where Green Island "skins" were dropped off by their mom in a minivan. It sparked a little beef with what became the A-Team due to a XMBX post.)
September 26 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: Grief, Black Army Jacket, and Converge (It was all right, then all the new "Boston" kids came over.)
October 10 1998 @Greek American Club Boston Mass: BTSJ II: Death Threat, Reach The Sky, Floorpunch, In My Eyes, and Hatebreed (Rad show, for sure. IME played the Difference Between from start to finish.)
October 22 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: Shyness Clinic, Karate, 6 Going On 7 (I can officially say that the Shyness Clinic is the worst band ever.)
October 23 1998 @The Space Worcester Mass: Saves The Day, Piecemeal, Endeavor, and Bane
October 31 1998 @The Church Cambridge Mass: The Never Never, Fastbreak, Jejune, and Piebald (Diverse crowd, lots of costumes. More women that the averages show. Fastbreak dressed as G'N'R', Tre with handlebar moustache ...)
November 14 1998 @The Church Cambridge Mass: Right Brigade, Grade, In My Eyes, Converge, and H2O (Fantastic)
November 28 1998 @The Gym Clinton Mass: Ten Yard Fight, Shutdown, Ensign and Sick Of It All (Fantastic, started small, got larger)
December 5 1998 @Masonic Lodge Cambridge Mass: The Explosion, Fastbreak, Blood For Blood, Bane, Madball (Yeah baby, Madball)
December 13, 1998 @ The Space Worcester Mass: Bane, Reach The Sky, Fastbreak, Get High, The Enkindels (did this happen?)
January ** 1999 @Club 198 Providence RI: Capture The Flag, Camera Obscura, Time Flies, Ten Yard Fight, Piebald (Piebald is getting on my nerves, no stage)
January 17 1999 @The Space Worcester Mass: Kid Dynamite, Saves The Day, Piebald (Slow, but Yo-yo)
February 13 1999 @YWCA Cambridge Mass: Garrison, Shyness Clinic, Reach The Sky, Battery, Bane, Piebald (Crippled Youth record from Max Milgrim, and mad stage dives, none for Piebald)
February 14 1999 @Space Worcester Mass: Garrison, Jazz June, 6 Going On 7, Hot Water Music (Jazz June rocked, Punk Rock Prom, v-day.)
February 25, 1999 @The Grind Clark Univ Worcester Mass: Karate, The Mean Reds, ... (Jordan's band, Pat Farley's dude)
April 3, 1999 @ Wallingford Skate Park CT : H2O, Fastbreak, KYI(??)
April 3, 1999 @ The Old store, Palmer MA : Bane, Time Flies, Open up, All i can, Havoc (is this date right, or is the previous one wrong?)
April 10, 1999 @ Wallingford Skate Park CT : Leeway, Bulldoze, Ignite, Follow Through (reunion)
April 24 1999 @ The Old Store Palmer Mass: Converge, Reach the Sky, Daltonic, & Piecemeal
May 1, 1999 @ Higgins Gym WPI Worcester Mass: Liz Phair (Cushman and I nonchalantly bum rushed the ticket booth, chilled with Melissa, plus Bedard and Nicole ...)
May 1 1999 @ The Palladium Worcester Mass: New England Metal & Hardcore Fest: Buried Alive, Converge, Cavein, Bane(??), Madball(??), Earth Crisis (??) ... way too many
May 7 1999 @ Universal Unitarian Church Quincy Mass: Truth Set, Make It Last, Days Ahead, Open Up, The Trust, Fastbreak, Ten Yard Fight (Last time Ten Yard Fight played song ... . Four piece, no Clevo. JLX on bass. First time I heard Pat say "Get Sexy.")
May 12 1999 @ The Middle East Upstairs: Kill Holiday, Mid Carson July, The Warren Commission (Melissa and I went celebrating my 20th bday. KH laughed when I yelled "Cold Shoulder." Clevo probably did too.)
June 4 1999 @ Wallingford: Sick Of It All, Right Brigade (rolled with Mike & AJ)
June 7 1999 @ The Space Worcester Mass: Bane, Ten Yard Fight, The Swarm, Adamantium, Embrace Today ("The sooner more people get naked, the sooner we play again." Zach)
June 10 1999 @ Mcternan's Studio in DC: Bane backups for Give Blood
June 11 1999 @ Providence RI: H2O, In My Eyes, Right Brigade, The Explosion (chilled with Mike, AJ and Jen Walker)
June 17 1999 @ Portland ME: Reach The Sky
June 26 1999 @ some venue Syracuse NY: Hellfest: Ten Yard Fight, Fastbreak, Buried Alive, Piebald, Grade, ... (Great show. Venue was changed 40 times. We stayed at Heather's in Oneida. I met One Ball, and apologized.)
June 27 (??) 1999 @The Space Worcester Mass: 6 Going On 7, Bluetip, Shiner
July 1 1999 @ Lupo's Providence RI: Sick Of It All, Good Riddance, In My Eyes, Kid Dynamite
July 2 1999 @ ?? : Moeser, Buried Alive ...
Last week in July, 1999 @ Cali road trip with Lou & AJ (42 hours from MA to SF. First day was cold and grey. Lou tried to get a free fleece jacket. No such luck. Hung with Mannix and Robin. No luck getting tickets to opening night of The Blair Witch Project. Picked up a classic auto in Petaluma. Saw Blair Witch the next day in LA with Lou's sister. This was after a free lunch at Armani. The ride home was rocky. The classic car almost didn't make it over the rockies. I gambled 1 quarter at a slot machine in Vegas or maybe Reno. We slept IN the car in Kearney NB. AJ slept across the broad trunk. The car died in Ohio. AJ and I rode back to Mass in a tow truck. I had to call my boss and let her know I wouldn't be into work as I was riding slow. I called Melissa once on this trip. Bad boyfriend move. And it was only to let her know I'd be home late. Like 3 days late.)
August 11 1999 @ ?? : Cause For Alarm, The Authority, Kid Dynamite, Blood For Blood
August 14 1999 @ Firehall Red Brick NJ: Breakdown
August 27 1999 @ Merrimack College North Andover Mass: Bane, Garrison, Errortype:11, Mid Carson July, Little Dipper (No stage diving allowed. Shanna did a torpedo dive, trying to shut down the show -- not intentionally. Then AJ shut it down with his dive. Fuck, it took me forever to find this information. Sadly, it was on garrisonrocks.com the whole time. I just happened to be looking for the wrong college - community instead of $$$)
September 24, 1999 @ Notre Dame Center Boston Mass: Dropkick Murphy's, Reach The Sky & Blood For Blood (Standhard was working the door, "Worcester's in the house" Then he let us in for free. Left before Dropkicks.)
September 25 1999 @ Hynes Convention Center Boston Mass: Collegefest: Face To Face + Jerry Springer
October 10 1999 @ Boston: Buried Alive
October 15 1999 @ ?? : Hatebreed
October 17, 1999 @Karma Club Boston Mass: Edge Day: Reach The Sky, Bane, In My Eyes, final Ten Yard Fight show (amazing)
October 18 - 25 1999 Trip to New Orleans
October 26 1999 Road a train then took forever driving a Ford escort back from Lancaster PA
October 30 1999 @ The Palladium Upstairs Worcester Mass: Bane (record release), Reach The Sky ...
December 11, 1999 @ Riley Commons, WPI Worcester MA Bane, Buried Alive, Reach The Sky (we booked this. Was supposed to be The Swarm, but they canceled. Barrit too, but they broke up. Ian turned the gig into a benefit for the Worcester Fire Department. Shit ton of snow so attendance was low in the beginning.)
February 11, 2000 @Presumpscott Grange Hall Portland ME: In My Eyes, Right Brigade, American Nightmare (first show, Boston Invasion Weekend), Lowlife, Conscious Youth (long drive, but worth it. I was one of 3-4 kids dancing for AN, as I had got the demo earlier, Op Ivy cover)
February 25, 2000 @Hanover House Meriden CT: In My Eyes, Right Brigade ...
March 5, 2000 @Manville Elks Lodge Manville NJ: Matt Fest Day 2: AF, Hatebreed (near riot, Pete Chilton moshing), Bane, Vision, Ensign, ... (Nick Storch appearance)
May 5, 2000 @Dungeon (??) Portland ME: Jersey, Grade, American Nightmare, Reach The Sky (AJ took the LONG route and we got there late. Missed all of AN, saw RTS. Dalbec was there as there was a girl in Jersey he was macking on)
May 21, 2000 @ CBGBs NYC NY: The Final Mosh: Floorpunch, Cro-Mags, Breakdown, ...
July 2 2000 @ The Booker T. Washington Center Auburn, NY: Hellfest 2000: Bane, Hope Conspiracy, Reach The Sky, Death By Stereo (giant flips from the stacks during this band), adamantium, Good Clean Fun, ...
Summer 2000 @VFW Saco ME (across from Funtown): American Nightmare, Right Brigade, Good Clean Fun, Lowlife, Miles Between Us, pre Backstabbers Inc. (No love at the funtwon go carts, turned around at the gates, first night AN sold the first ep, Mullet and internet sluts)
Summer/Fall 2000 @some gym on Penn. Ave, Framingham Mass: Shep's "Final IME" show: In My Eyes, Proclamation, Days Ahead ... (this was not the real last show)
August 8, 2000 @ Lupo's Providence R: Madball, H2O, Reach The Sky, Ignite, American Nightmare
September 2000 @ Framingham Mass: BTSJ IV: Reach The Sky, Hatebreed, VOD, American Nightmare, Right Brigade (Sick of it All and H2O cancelled)
October 21, 2000 @ American Legion Haverhill Mass: Edge Day 2k: Shark Attack (two songs), Killing Flame, Mouthpiece, Bane, In My Eyes (last show), Ten Yard Fight (5 songs), SXE Revenge w/ Porcell
November 2, 2000 @ The Palladium (upstairs) Worcester Mass: Rockstock: Around The World, 6 Going on 7, Rival Schools (??) ... (Melissa and I walked in during the middle of someone's set and had to scoot across the stage. Coldest it has ever been in the palladium. Did we watch Rival Schools?)
January 7, 2001 @ Lupo's Providence RI: Madball, Reach The Sky (Pike busted his knee this day, NOT mosh related)
March 03, 2001 @ Lupo's Providence RI: Bane, Shadows Fall, Candiria (used Melissa as a hostage in order to find Zach for free entrance. Mitch, Julia, Seth and NO ONE else)
March 6, 2001 @ SUNY RACC Albany NY: Weezer, The Get Up Kids, Ozma (Crazy snow storm that day, ["biggest snow storm in years"] we nearly didn't go. Small crowd, GUK stole the show even with keyboardist of Coalesce.)
March 30, 2001 @ The Met Cafe Providence RI: Bane, Death Threat, OMDB, xThe Gamex(the game's first show, where the beef began)
April 4, 2001 @Boston Mass 420 Fest: American Nightmare, Bane, Right Brigade (Scabby), Carry On, Late Night Revenge (AJ's home made stage, Carry On EPs with pot leaves, tie dyed LNR gear, ...)
April 7, 2001 @ The Palladium Worcester Mass: Bane, OMDB ... (did I go to this one? I can't imagine not going)
May 11, 2001 @ KOC Middleboro Mass: xThe Gamex, The A-Team (I got a ticket on the way to this show)
May 30, 2001 @ CBGBs NYC: Burn (reunion), The Cro-Mags, American Nightmare & Frontline (Frontline opened with what seemed like the longest set ever to a crowd that just wasn't into it. Burn was amazing. Before they played, there was an immense feeling of anticipation in the air. I stood next to Bedard for a minute and he was almost gleeful in anticipation of Burn. Then everything was a moshing blur.)
June 2001 @ Mass Art Boston Mass: Stop And Think (first show), AN, Shark Attack, Panic
July 12, 2001 @ The Well Portland ME: xThe Gamex, Knockdown/Full Contact, No Warning, Anything Goes, No Apologies
July 21, 2001 @Function Fest Dover Mass: Bane, American Nightmare, Kill Your Idols, a million other bands (super long day, Dalbec got smacked in the head by Zach's guitar, ie bane's set was cut short) (pic1, pic2, pic3)
July 28, 2001 @ Suffolk Downs Boston Mass: Blink-182 (Despite being 22 years old, I felt like a grandpa at this show. Also, the line out front was stupid long, I deftly navigated to the front gate and just walked right in. Melissa wasn't so psyched on that. Best part of Blink-182's performance was the flaming "Fuck You" sign.)
August 23, 2001 @ Axis Boston Mass: Good Riddance, Stop And Think, Death By Stereo, Hope Conspiracy
September 8, 2001 @The Palladium Worcester Mass: Sk8 Fest: Ink Cartridge Funeral, Piebald, Thursday (singer passed out from heat), Death Threat, No Warning (dudes psyched on my The Killing shirt), ...
September 12, 2001 @Mass Art Boston Mass: Small Brown Bike, End It, Moment, The Ames Curve (Melissa's b-day, somber day all around)
October 13 2001 @KOC Wallingford, CT: Carry On, Stop And Think, No Warning, Sworn Enemy (Carry On was supporting their new LP)
October 31, 2001 @ VFW Western Mass: The A-Team, Red Reaction, ... (I met Amanda P at this show, she rolled with Shanna)
November 2, 2001 @Mass Art Boston Mass: Bane (record release), Reach The Sky, Suicide File (first show), Stop and Think (glasseater cancelled due to van troubles, I was into the Suicide File demo so went off, and a Fear cover)
November 11, 2001 @Met Cafe Providence RI: Bane (record release), Reach The Sky, Death Threat, Glasseater (Saves The Day was playing Lupos that night)
December 30, 2001 @Trance Buddha Shrewsbury Mass: Bane, My Revenge, What Feeds The Fire, (The A-Team, The Fright) ... (Cramped joint, real small. Seth sang Out Of Step cover with WFTF, lots of old Bane jams. Jim C booked this show)
February 6 2002 @ Worcester Mass: Got first piece of Dicky Cummings record collection
February 2002 @Riley Commons WPI Worcester Mass: Joe Hawk Benefit: A-Team, R'N'R, Say Goodbye, Suicide File (I missed most of the show, did a crossword with AJT Review)
February 15, 2002 @The Berwick Roxbury Mass: Striking Distance, Panic
March 15, 2002 @The Palladium Worcester Mass: Some Kind of hate, Horror Show, Count me Out, Panic, and American Nightmare
April 6, 2002 @Suffolk Univ Boston Mass: Stop And Think, Suicide File, A-Team (record release), Mental (first official show) (dave bought the giant sundae. I bet a dude couldn't eat a whole tub of marshmallow. He couldn't)
April 26, 2002 @The Palladium Worcester Mass: Say Goodbye, The Suicide File, There Were Wires, The Hope Conspiracy, The Dedication
May 24, 2002 @ KOC Wallingford CT: Busted, the Hiest, Carry The Torch, Say Goodbye, The First Step , Champion, What Feeds The Fire
June 2, 2002 @ The Berwick Roxbury Mass: Say Goodbye, Mental, The Curse, Champion (left before SD and DT, missed Say Goodbye because I stepped out to piss Review)
June 8, 2002 @ The Berwick Roxbury Mass: Suicide File, Stop and Think, Knives Out, In Control, Dragnet, Think I Care (Review)
June 29, 2002 @The Hideaway Boston Mass: Bane, Strike Anywhere, Panic
July 07, 2002 @ The Met Providence RI: Some Kind of Hate, The Suicide File, What Feeds The Fire, The Cro-Mags
July 12, 2002 @ Syracuse? NY Hellfest 02: Bane (Road in with Al Barkley and Robb Woods. They were actually just driving through. Bane was amazing. Jim C, Big Bob, Nick Storch, ... amamzingness. Probably my best day of stage diving ever. Even bedard was impressed. Supposedly, I won two free passes to Hellfest 2003. I am still waiting for them to arrive. Weak)
July 20, 2002 @The Hideaway Cambridge Mass: Bridge9 Fest Day 1: American Nightmare, Embrace Today,
July 21, 2002 @ The Hideaway Cambridge Mass: Bridge9 Fest Day 2: Mental, Panic, Suicide File, American Nightmare, Knives Out, Sworn In (Date recalled by Clevo as Weinberg sung happy bday to Clevo)
August 03, 2002 @ The Hideaway Cambridge Mass: Slapshot (Toxic Narcotic, Kill Your Idols, Poison Idea) (Review)
September 13, 2002 @Regeneration Roxbury Mass: Mental, R'N'R, Reaching Forward, So Be It, Think I Care, XFilesX, Fit For Abuse
September 15, 2002 @The Palladium Mass: American Nightmare, Hope Conspiracy, Count Me Out and Panic (Wes held a controvserially worded piece of cardboard before the set. Never saw what it said)
October 4, 2002 @Riley Commons WPI Worcester Mass: Red Reaction, Mental, Cut the Shit, Youth Attack (owen HYPED the hell out of YxA, greg made a long speech about how fucked up eating meat is. Review)
October 17, 2002 @ Edge Day 02: back up vocals for Stop And Think Demo II (party mosh wasn't party enough and was scrapped. Azy yelled "LOBSTER!")
October 20, 2002 @The Palladium Worcester Mass: Billy Music, Closecall, R'N'R, The Suicide File, Bane (Review)
October 26, 2002 @Framingham City Hall Framingham Mass: BTSJ VI: Blood For Blood, Slapshot, Stars and Stripes, Converge, Reach The Sky, Panic, No Warning, Count Me Out, Fit For Abuse, Impact, Some Kind Of Hate (first drunk Geoff sighting. He air drummed his way off a table.)
November 1, 2002 @The Palladium Worcester Mass: New Found Glory, Something Corporate, Finch (Zach got us VIP passes)
January 24 2003 @Riley Commons WPI Worcester Mass: Close Call, Brace, My Revenge, John Brown's Army, Blackout, Youth Attack (Did My Revenge and Brace play? No. Review)
January 25, 2003 @ICC Alston Mass: Mental (1.25.03, AYKTM!!), Suicide File (LP record release), Stop And Think, Think I Care, Striking Distance, American Nightmare (AN was special guest, they retired the first two EPs, rasta EPs from Mental Review)
January 30 2003 @Riley Commons WPI Worcester Mass: KRS-One
February 9 2003 @ The Palladium Downstairs Worcester Mass: Bane, Reach The Sky, Terror, Most Precious Blood, The Promise, Some Kind Of Hate (The last Reach the Sky show. Jesus, was this a good show Review)
February 22, 2003 @ Riley Commons WPI Worcester Mass: The First Step, My Revenge, Youth Attack, Sex Positions, Verse (Matt Dude sang for Verse, Spencer moshed with a chair)
March 08, 2003 @El N Gee New London CT: Hands Tied (reunion), Damage Control, The First Step, Desperate Measures(??), Not A Chance (last show)
March 2003: Paris France: chilling, Louvre, Eiffel Tower, hotel room with a cool balcony, crazy old man at hole in the wall vegan joint (that was sold out of EVERYTHING just about) ...
March 28, 2003 @ WPI Riley Commons Worcester Mass: Close Call, The A-Team, Punch In The Face, The Prowl, Sick And Tired, Three Fifteen (did 315 play?)
April 20, 2003 (Easter Sunday) @ Axis Boston Mass: Madball, Death Threat & Unearth (Unearth was VERY bad, Freddy reminded people about jesus, Larrabee may have been a little tipsy.)
April 28, 2003 @ Central Sq. Elks: Think I Care, XFilesX, So Be It, Shot Dead, Dumptruck (A chair was thrown at the Lockinout table during So Be It. I was 2 inches from getting clobbered by it.)
May 5, 2003 @The Asylum Maine: Bane, AF, Some Kind Of Hate ... (yelled at for stage diving)
May 25, 2003 @Met Cafe Providence RI: Bane, Terror, Most Precious Blood
June 28 2003 @ Central Sq. Elks Cambridge Mass: Mental, Knife Fight, Crunchtime, ...
July 2003 @ Homebase Wilkes-Barre PA: Posi Numbers Fest: Bane ... (I flew in. Pete picked me up. Chilled with Casali.)
July 26, 2003 @The Palladium Worcester Mass: Team Neale show: Silent Drive, others (only saw Silent Drive)
July 27, 2003 @The Palladium Worcester Mass: Team Neale show: Bane, Hatebreed, Barrit, Hope Con, Ringworm, What Feeds The Fire (last show), Most Precious Blood (WFTF sent out a GB cover to me, then made fun of my bad stage diving. Perfect.)
August 4, 2003 @ Bill's Bar Boston Mass: Madball, Death Threat & Think I Care (chilled with Tang.)
September 13, 2003 @ICC Alston Mass: Bane, Comeback Kid, Mental, The Promise
November 09, 2003 @ TT The Bears, Cambridge Mass: alias, sole, odd nosdam (rolled with AJ. Show started SUPER late -- doors at 830, first group was around 10 or 11, I think. Pretty busted)
January 01, 2004 @ The Palladium Worcester Mass: Bane, Champion, Modern Life Is War, Outbreak (Colin Of Arabia) (I rolled up AFTER COA, not sure how that happened. Must have been rolling with Bob Chipman. Oh whut? Yes. Champion smoked and MLIW played a decent set, even if I'm no fan. Bane opened with a new track. Kids were confused. Mosh began on second song. Good times.)
February 13, 2004 @Cambridge VFW Cambridge Mass: Righteous Jams, R'N'R, The Wrong Side, Rampage, Jaguarz... (almost hit by a chair thrown at Lockin Out table, Review)
February 14, 2004 @The Palladium Worcester Mass: H2O (With Honor, Stretch Armstrong) (Missed both openers. Show was stupid weird. Review)
March 7 2004 @The Palladium Worcester Mass: Bane, Mental, Modern Life Is War, The Distance (Review
March 12, 2004 @Elks Club Cambridge Mass: Police Beat record release: Say Goodbye, Police Beat, To Hell And Back, Tarpit, Time To Pay, maybe 1 more
March 28 2004 @ Avalon Boston Mass: Liz Phair, Wheat (Wheat was VERY bad)
May 13, 2004 @The Living Room Providence RI: Bane, Mental, Verse, Think I Care, Charge (Review)
June 25, 2004 @The Living Room Providence RI: Insted (reunion), The First Step, Mental and Say Goodbye (Review)
June 27 2004 @Lowell Civic Center Lowell Mass: Civic Tour: Dashboard Confessional and Get Up Kids (guest list + one, Review)
July 2004 @ Homebase Wilkes-Barre PA: Posi Numbers Fest: DM, Mental, RJ, Dumptruck Army, Death Threat, Breakthrough, Our Turn, ... (chilling outside in the tent, Review)
July 22, 2004 @ICC Alston Mass: Champion, Comeback Kid, Some Kind Of Hate, Stand Accused (first show) (traded sneakers with Pike, Aram tried to convince me that 7 Einhorn had WACK porn)
July 23, 2004 @KOC Wallingford CT: Bane, The Hope Con, Only Crime, FC5 (Big Bob had a lot of moolah, "wish I was packing". Met Jeff T.)
July 31, 2004 @The Palladium, Worcester Mass: Bane, Only Crime, Silent Drive, FC5 (Zach was on point as a front man, much funny shit. Chilled at Nick Cartridge's house afterward.)
August 20, 2004 @Cambridge Elks Lodge Cambridge Mass: Mental Record Release: Mental, Desperate Measures, Righteous Jams, Justice, Lights Out, Have Heart (Review)
September 12, 2004 @Uxbridge Mass: wedding
October 15, 2004 @Purple Haze Long Island NY: Bane, RJ, ... (got lost horribly, saw 15 minutes of Bane)
October 16, 2004 @Jackson Mann School Boston Mass: Bane, Mental, RJ, Some Kind Of Hate, Stand Accused
November 13, 2004 @Riley Commons WPI Worcester Mass: Silent Drive, the midget who stole gods map of the universe, ... (Oh wait. This show got cancelled. Stupid WPI.)
Jan 1, 2005 @ The Palladium Upstairs Worcester Mass: Bane, Champion, Modern Life Is Warfare, Outbreak, (Colin of Arabia) (top notch show, bane opened with a new song, kids went crazy for outbreak, champion and bane. Took Bobby Chipman.)
January 14, 2005 @ The Palladium Upstairs Worcester Mass: Stretch Armstrong, H2O (Weirdest show ever. The crowd is what did it in. Half empty, no one knew the first H2O album, James Garvey was the hardest mosher, the band tried to do multiple encore songs but realized the new guitarist only knew 2, ...)
February 8-14 2005 @ Rekjavik, Iceland: Chilling, more chilling, Geysir, Gullfoss, A Naestu Grosum x3, Grenn Kostur, Laugavegur, land of Diesel jeans, ...
February 25 2005 @ American Legion Auburn ME: Bane, With Honor, Outbreak, ... (Rolled with Mike and Rod. We showed ups as Outbreak ended. With Honor got a sick reaction. Bane was on. New songs are great. No stage. Sigh.)
February 26 2005 @ AS220 Providence RI: Bane, With Honor, Verse, Have Heart, Learn (Have Heart was real impressive. With Honor got another great reaction. Bane was sick, as usual. Good stage for diving. Bad stage for being a 5 piece band.)
March 05, 2005 @ ICC Cambridge Mass: Bane, Silent Drive, Comeback Kid, With Honor (Melissa and Jaime rolled. Sound guy yelled at me for this [Note: cushman, morgado, & twomz]. Bane played Every Effort Made, ridic. CBK got a crazy response. Most dudes stared blankly at Silent Drive.)
April 17, 2005 @ CBGBs NYC: Bold, Mental, Have Heart, Triple Threat, Flame Still Burns (good shit, all around. Two CY songs. Shut it down. Rolled with Pete, CC, Mitch.)
April 21, 2005 @ Meehan Center Brown Univ Providence RI: The Shins, Talib Kweli, The Brunettes (Brunettes were super weird, Talib was over bassy and undecipherable, crowd was also super white, Shins were dope)
April 22, 2005 @ The Palladium Worcester Mass: Metal Fest: Unearth (only band I watched, good times, chilling with Nick Storch was better)
April 23, 2005 @ The Palladium Worcester Mass: Metal Fest: Danzig & Doyle (only watched the Danzig songs and misfits songs. Misfits songs were stellar. Chilling with Pike)
May 20, 2005 @ The Shelter Albany NY: Bane, Weerd Science, With Honor ... (ate at Bombers with Jason and Cush. Julia thinks I got "too rowdy" during Swan Song)
May 21, 2005 @ The Palladium Upstairs Worcester Mass: Bane, Suicide File, Weerd Science, ... (Suicide File killed that show. Bane played great. Definitely into it.) pic1
May 22, 2005 @ CBGBs NYC: Bane, Suicide File (I wasn't there, I watched online. WEAK!)
May 26, 2005 @ The Living Room Providence RI: Bane, Weerd Science, Goat Island, Colin Of Arabia, Blue Bloods (Solo mission. Blue Bloods were the odd band out. Colin started the set by saying, "We're the Suicide File. Let's go!" 15 kids ran from the back, got to the pit and were super BUMMED. Goat Island had fog machines and strobes. Nuff said. Kids nodded to WS. Bane was good, but lack of crowd made stage diving close to impossible. I sat on the drum riser. Seated mosh. Not one person was there taking pictures.)
May 28, 2005 @ The ICC Allston Mass: Bane, Suicide File, Weerd Science, Bad Business (kids moshed for Bad Business, nodded for WS. Hot as hell. SF was discussed as headlining, but they played next. Started strong with Standhard intro and silly string. Kids killed each other. Then Bane. So hot, some kids left. Still awesome times. Big Bob in the house. Opened with Every Effort Made. Shit. Morgado told me he was done going to shows.)
May 29, 2005 @ North Six Brooklyn NY: Slumlords, Uppercut, Killing Time (Rolled with Jeremy, Sweet Pete and Melissa. Met up with Rod, Mike, Sarah Anne and Jaime. Semi scare because Melissa forgot her license. Slumlords have good music, cheesy topics and AWESOME banter. Uppercut was all right. Killing Time was crazy. No stage dive rule sucked. Anthony was HUGE. Saw Morgado. He told me "it's a special occasion." Later after moshing his ass off, he said, "I lied. I love hardcore.")
June 20, 2005 @ The Paradise Allston Mass: Liz Phair (beginning of her acoustic tour. Amazing. Good crowd interaction.)
June 25, 2005 @ The Palladium Downstairs Worcester Mass: Get Up Kids (Final Tour) (showed up as they played the first song, gashed my foot, rocked out, got bummed on stupid in song clapping by avg. 16 year old kid)
July 17, 2005 @ 1761 Old Mill Westminster Mass: Tobin 70th bday (I wore patent sneakers. Awesome.)
July 29-31, 2005 @ Wyoming Valley Sportsdome Wilkes-Barre, PA: Posi Numbers 2005
Friday July 29th
music started at 5pm
Murphy's Law
Modern Life Is War
Down To Nothing
Think I Care
Lion Of Judah
RNR
Some Kind Of Hate (didn't play due to Ryan's torn ACL)
Mind Eraser
Betrayed
Riff Raff

Saturday July 30th
music started at 12:30
Bold
Underdog
Kill Your Idols
Mental
Internal Affairs
One Up
Iron Boots
Charge
Paint It Black
Crime In Stereo
Slumlords
Justice
Triple Threat
War Hungry

Sunday July 31st
music started at 12:30
Killing Time (didn't play due to fight)
Champion (didn't play due to fight)
Blacklisted (didn't play due to fight)
Outbreak (didn't play due to fight)
The Wrong Side(last show, didn't play due to fight)
Righteous Jams (didn't play due to fight)
Cold World (last show)
Drug Test
Final Word
86 Mentality
Have Heart
Set To Explode
Ceremony
August 14, 2005 @ CBGBs NYC: Gorilla Biscuits, Black Train Jack, The First Step (Cushman and I chilled outside all day. Ran to take a shit before GB. Got back and just missed Civ invite EVERYONE inside. Rich Hall said, "Sorry, sold out.")
August 15, 2005 @ Tri County Fair Grounds Northampton Mass: Warped Tour: Bane (stupid muddy, weird stage with a barrier and 4 security guards. 40 kids going off, 150 staring. Julia and Ian Incite.)
August 20, 2005 @ The Palladium (Downstairs) Worcester Mass: Rise Against, Comeback Kid, ... (I showed up in time to see Comeback Kid leave stage. Chilled with Pike & Lussier. Some "90 lb soaking wet" kid on stage got tackled by 3 big security guards. Awesome.)
October 7, 2005 @ Axis Boston Mass: Bane (Weird barrier, weird crowd [all Strung Out fans, it seemed], bouncers were bringing me and everyone else down. Bedard gave a "dance with open fists" speech due to questionable moshing.)
October 14, 2005 @ Avalon Boston Mass: Liz Phair (Started acoustic, belted out some 2003 tracks off key, covered the rest. Somehow we showed up after Matt Pond PA.)
October 17, 2005 @ Raw Bar Worcester Mass: Righteous Jams (Watched astros/cards baseball at WPI, then rolled up for RJ. Great new songs. Cush and I got a shout out on Biz As Uge. Nice! Kids were diving off of pool tables and booths.)
January 13, 2006 @ QVCC Worcester MA: Bane, Outbreak, This Is Hell, Wasteland (Pre show eats with Bedard and Pete at Quan Yin. Showed up during This Is Hell, Talked to Ed (The Space/Taxi) about The Dialtones(!!), Tre, ... Zac Greer had the best dives despite thin crowd in front, 9 minute drive home with fog and a missed turn) flyer
January 14, 2006 @ QVCC Worcester MA: Bane, Verse, Have Heart, Guns Up!, Youth Attack (Pre show eats with Cushman at Moe's. All the bands were getting great reactions, Bane went over well. Saw Mullet, Dolloff, ... Made it all the way through the show without hearing a Pats score. Later, watched Pats eat it, then cards until 6am) flyer
January 21, 2006 @ Adidas Outlet, Wrentham MA: Marathon 88 Fade (First pair of Adidas in 5+ years)
February 08, 2006 @ The Palladium (downstairs) Worcester MA: Wu-Tang Clan Reunion (rolled up at 9:30, chilled at Irish Times with Pike and crew, rolled into the show around 10:30, still no one on. Chilled in the VIP section, upper wing portion, dudes came out and rocked the joint. Pike went ballistic when all 36 Chambers songs were played. So good, so loud. I left at 12:15, Pike left at 1am, the Wu was still going strong.)
February 15, 2006 @ Godcity, Salem MA: Betrayed backing vocals (Hell, Casali was even there. T. Jones had already broken out. Lots of raging Aram stories.)
February 18, 2006 @ Work, Burlington MA: Vans Sk8-His (First pair(s) of Vans ever)
March 4 - 9, 2006 @ London UK: Chillin, Big Ben, Red Veg, Oxford St sneaker shops, Soya Lattes, cousins Steven & Rachel, ...
March 25, 2006 @ Romans Brockton Mass: LOJ, Cold World, Shere Khan, Jimmy Flynn band, Pauley Edge band (TJs with Pete, then some basketball, showed up later, chilled with Ritter. Very still with dropped jaws for LOJ. Kids going nuts for Cold World.)
March 26, 2006 @ The Palladium Worcester Mass: Ignite, Comeback Kid (Nancy Chang's with Pike, then the baseball fantasy draft, Lussier showed up with Jay, chilling. Ignite was cool. U2 cover was aight. Talked to some new people: Cris Mission, Grippo, ...)
March 31, 2006 @ Masonic Lodge Billerica Mass: Have Heart, The First Step, Verse, Hammer Brothers, Fired Up, Maintain (Guilted Steb, Greg Bacon and Aaron into letting me sit with them for Indian food, google maps let me down for the first time, got some Jordan Vs, sold Verse merch with Erika Mitch, failed her crossword puzzle which caused many to laugh, Verse and Have Heart was awesome. TFS seemed sloppy.)
April 20, 2006 @ 255 NYC: 255 Studio AM1
May 20, 2006 @ The Palladium (upstairs) Worcester Mass: Just Surrender (day started with tour yellow AJ IVs with Pete, AJ and Amanda P. Morphed into chilling with Spaulding. Add Pike, add cushman. Ending with Just Surrender. Great day.)
May 21, 2006 @ QVCC Worcester Mass: Have Heart, This Is Hell, Down To Nothing (Pete and I showed up right as DTN ended, lots of girls moshing for This Is Hell, Pat Flynn = most posi dude ever -- giving out "band" waters, ...) flyer
June 09, 2006 @ QVCC Worcester Mass: Bane, Outbreak, Modern Life Is War, This Is Hell (Nancy Chang's with Pete and Spaulding. Then we (plus Cushman) showed up right as MLIW ended, great Bane set, got an "At Best" shout out, lots of stage dives, Jim C and Rich in attendance) flyer
June 10, 2006 @ Price Chopper/ Chili's plaza, Shrewsbury MA @ Udupi (YES!! Udupi opens in Shrewsbury, after shutting it's Framingham doors 6 months back)
June 21, 2006 @ Roman's Brockton Mass: Guns Up!, Verse, Energy, ... (Chilled with Sweet Pete prior, chinese and sox. Rolled up at 8 to see the FIRST band play. Long night. Hung out late after the show chilling with Dollof and talking to philly dude about variants. Slept at 21 Mt. Vernon.)
July 10, 2006 @ The ICC Allston Mass: Lifetime (Chilled with Jason, Pete and Adam Tanner at TJs, then outside the show. Mothy, Andy, acted the fool with Jenn Field's ex boyfriend, almost did it again with Matt Dude/ Mitch, ... Dudes were dripping with sweat during and after lifetime. I enjoyed the cool summer breeze on the sidewalk with Texas Mike. Then chill after session with Have Heart dudes and Jimmy Flynn - an intro.)
August 5, 2006 @ The Palladium (downstairs) Worcester Mass: Guns Up!, Set Your Goals, This Is Hell, Righteous Jams, Murphy's Law, Comeback Kid, Gorilla Biscuits (amazing day. checked kangaroo crossing with Pike, chilled with ajt, Arthur told us about being responsible, learned the dirt on Rev, feverishly worked out dinner plans for 12 [ elmo, alex, myself, tanguay, pete, pike, luke, andrea(??), jesse, arthur, civ, bike courier dude] at Nancy Changs, Guns Up killed it, Set Your Goals was chill, RJ on top, shortest murphy's law set ever (including a real skinhead girl who loved being on stage), kids like CBK (zach jordan and bob showed up), Gorilla Biscuits was ridiculously awesome. Another "random song" intro horn blast, Sweet Pete sang As One after much peer pressure, Ryan Parker did a toe touching stage dive, which I followed with a horrible one. So bad that Civ gave me a thumbs down. Ouch. Such a good show. Post show: AJT had a new BFF and I skipped the after show)
August 19, 2006 @ The Raw Bar Worcester Mass: Silent Drive (Rolled up with Mike after Mike's long day of basement work. The real story here is the crowd. Trip back to 98. Beshaw, Ian Incite, Eyebrow, Eric, Hudson, Slippery Pete, Jeremy and wife, Big Tony and ... LOU. Yeap, Lou. So rad. Show started mad late. Cush and I walked to Tortilla Sams and Bean Counter. Mitch was there. so was Merrick. Mitch told us about her movie. Silent Drive was chill. Kids were psyched. Great night, super long.)
August 27, 2006 @ KOC Lawrence Mass: Have Heart, Verse, Outbreak, Shipwreck, Guns Up, Betrayed, The First Step, Ambitions, Resist, Van Damage/Cruel Hand (Gave Mitch a ride. Showed up during Cruel Hand, missed Van Damage. Resist played (Wrench's band) Chill. Ambitions was cool, dude from With Honor plays guitar. The First Step played next. Good set. Aram on guitar, greg bacon on bass. Betrayed followed and KILLED it. Despite Aram's cracked rib and a kid stage diving off of his chest, he still moved kids and said some witty shit ... "hey dude, the vegan revolution is on stage ... " to Jeff Yoth Attack. Shipwreck, kids moshed, I ate an amazing vegan cinnamon bun. Sweet, literally. Outbreak played a long set of really short songs. Chilled with Mailorder and Dan Doyle. Talked sneakers for a long time. Sweet Pete chillin, tre, chris b9, todd jones, Aram. Great dudes. Verse hit the stage. Amazing. Kids went nuts. Same happened for Have Heart. Have Heart killed it. Seriously, killed it. Lots of stage potatos. Broken strings, went through 2 basses and 3 guitars. Nice. -- Merch haul: champion crew neck from b9 bargain bin for $10, 2 betrayed shirts [white and baby blue], two have heart shirts [hardcore>shoes white, new album cover white shirt])
September 3, 2006 @ CBGBs NYC: Gorilla Biscuits, HR, Bold, Bane (rolled with Pete, good food at VP2 with AP, sneaker spots, chilling outside of CBs with Pike, Toby, Civ, Arthur, Alex, ... NYC Legends. Bane opened, I ripped Dalbec's power cord out and bent the prongs during my first dive of their first song, I rule. Sitting on the loft with Pete, Ed and others, Bold got a weak reaction. Butchered Searching For the Light. Got the boot off the loft before GB. HR played an acoustic set. After getting the boot, still managed to go around al browns equipment for me vs. bouncer stage dive, then the wind left my sails. Bouncers were dicks. Angrily throwing kids off the stage, so weak. Chilled in the back for the rest of the set. Hung with Bourbeau and mailorder. Introduced them to man (merrick, dalbec, ...). Heard crazy ratbones stories. "broke out of rehab to see Judge." Chilled outside with Tim, Ed, Lucowski, ... Dinner at Gobo with Pete and Ange, good dude.)
September 23, 2006 @ QVCC, Worcester Mass: Youth Attack (last show), Have Heart, Verse, Attitude, The Message (Rolled with Pete, didn't know many dudes there. Mitch showed up late. Ate some great vegan cookies. The Message is ex-youth attack, hard, semi mid 90s Mass core, Attitude front man reminded me of PLynch, the way he stalked the stage. Verse killed it. Have Heart double kille dit. Youth Attack was great. Lots of energy and goofs from crowd to band, plenty of silly string throughout the whole set. Good times. Home by 10:30pm)
September 24, 2006 @ Gilette Stadium: Pats vs. Denver (rolled with Pete)
October 14, 2006 @ The Epicentre San Diego, CA: This Is Hell, A Global Threat, Strike Anywhere, Bane (Day 1, picked up at the airport by Carrie, then Pokeyz with Hallee, Mike & Mandy and guy. No shirts, Bogus, very bogus. Shirt worry and jet lag made for a long night. Strike was cool, Bane was good despite thinned crowd. Watched Stevie try to swing around a pole, awesome. Drive to Anaheim.)
October 15, 2006 @ The Knitting Factory Hollywood, CA: This Is Hell, A Global Threat, Strike Anywhere, Bane (woke up to see two middle eastern kids playing with a, get this, nerf rocket launcher. Pump it up, set it on your shoulder, aim and fire. WOW. Ate at Native Food, so freaking good. Rolled through Santa Monica with Bedard and Hallee. Hit up Undftd, but nada. Then hit Melrose with NFJ and Larry. Picked up some curry AM1s at Sportie LA. Saw Johnny Knoxville checking out country records at Amoeba. Show was chill. Eric Hamilton was there. Met Mike Raio, learned about his girl drama. Another great night for Strike and Bane. Talked to Garth about my GB longsleeve. Grabbed a souvenir for Melissa. Hung with Bedard, Amanda Rev [classy] and Melissa on the way to Fred 62. Melissa is a nut and got lost (somehow). George Michael of Arrested Development was dining. Kenny Neale was ON POINT. Move maker all over Melissa, snorter.)
October 16, 2006 @ The Glasshouse Pomona, CA: This Is Hell, A Global Threat, Strike Anywhere, Bane (Awoke, starbucks on Hollywood and Vermont twice, slow start, ate at Islands (Kenny's work) in Burbank, good veggie burgers. Hit up Active, chatted with Bane fan, then to Pomona. Town was freaking ghostland, security looked amped up. Carrie showed up with my shirts. Sold a slew. First night I REALLY paid attention to This Is Hell. Good shit. Strike was good. Bane was also top notch. Good crowd, great stage. Security was surprisingly very hands off. This was the show where I stage dove into bedard and knocked him off the stage and I landed on the stage. Bedard made fun but then later proclaimed, "it had to have been on purpose." I went with that. After the show, chilled with Mandel, Worst Guy and K-Bar while security staff got blazed for head security guys bday. Then half the dudes rolled to In N Out while the other half hit up Del Taco. Super far away from the speaker. So goofy. Hotel near Santa Barbara. I slept in the Pool, bob on a bench.)
October 17, 2006 @ The Attic Santa Cruz CA: Good Clean Fun, This Is Hell, A Global Threat, Strike Anywhere, Bane (Slow start again, who'd have guessed? Hit up Seymour Duncan for pickups. No sneakers, but actual guitar pickups. Yeah, no fun. Crappy footlocker too. Then into Santa Cruz. Pulled up in front of the wrong venue for a 40+ weird crowd. Thankfully, the wrong club. Good Clean Fun opened to 12 people. Yuck. Then Issa got assaulted with silly string. I grabbed some odwalla's from the health food store, but not much in the way of food. Strike was good despite dork in front row. Dork was in front row for Bane too. Bedard gave him a v-neck shirt and sent him packing. Great crowd and dives. Drove to Hallee's in SF, day 1 of Chinese Poker. Mike stayed behind with girl.)
October 18, 2006 @ The Pound SF San Francisco CA: This Is Hell, A Global Threat, Strike Anywhere, Bane (Hung with PL, Love And Haight w/ Mannix, Kris, Bedard and PL. Lady thought I was stealing a drink. Plante rolled up, "All My Love" at Idle Hands. During Bob's diamond, Pepe and I hit up Haight. Nothing too spectacular. Plante brought vegan peanut butter chocolate chip cookies to the venue. Hallee and I sold merch while Mike dealt with girl drama. Farah, the promoter was the best. Tons of drinks and very helpful. Weird crowd but plenty of energy. Bane played Both Guns Blazing and I lost my shit. Back to Hallee's with a layover for Walgreen's and Colleen/ drunk high girl who demanded a ride to her boy friends house. Stevie un-pos threw a can at her. Donnie from Only Crime crashed on the floor. More arrested development and chinese poker.)
October 19, 2006 @ San Francisco CA: day 2, up early for coffee then a trip to Rainbow with Hallee, amazing. Lunch at Popalotes, so good. Off to Berkley. Plante showed up. Jamba Juice and Smart Alec's. Plenty of Fape, meth heads, Aimee Kelly, Mannix, Stpl gear at Buffalo Exchange, then finally drive to Seattle.)
October 20, 2006 @ El Corazon Seattle WA: This Is Hell, A Global Threat, Bane, Strike Anywhere (hit up Mighty O's for a half dozen vegan donuts. Ate two and felt like blowing chunks. With espresso. Bobby went fishing, discussion of Australia and New Zealand, heated. Went with Hallee, Zac and Dalbec to University Ave (Mike went to Atrya instead). Good shops, destroyed a Starbucks men's room, Zac was next. I apologized. Hit up Hillside Quickie. So freaking good. Back to Kyle's from Sinking Ships then to the show. El Corazon was weird. Real wide, not super packed. Maybe 200-250 kids. I did a lot of merch ($2.50 in tips), and Adrian (security at El Corazon) told me it was ok to stage dive during bane "because they are a straight edge band." No Every Effort Made, but that's ok. Strike headlined to a thinning crowd. Too bad. Via Lusty Lady and Mike's first trip. haha, ridic. "She fell in love with me." Then to chinese restaurant on University with Krissy and Gregg Trial. Back to Krissy's parents mansion for chinese poker than a trip to the airport. Tour is over for me.)
October 21, 2006 @ Cmabridge Elks Lodge Cambridge Mass: Think I Care, Cold World, Righteous Jams (went from airport (after they lost my luggage) to TJ's. Showed up after Loud and Clear USA. WEAK. Wandered with Cushman. Hung outside with Dan Doyle and Pete. Saw Amanda Ray. Listened to Think I Care, too hot in there. Watched some Colin of Arabia ("I quit"), listened to some Cold World. Broke out before RJ.)
October 30, 2006 @ The Livingroom Providence RIX: This Is Hell, A Global Threat, Strike Anywhere, Bane (stopped at the Nike Outlet on the way, got that missile shirt for $6.99. Under $10, baby. Showed up at the show while This Is Hell was playing. Maybe 2 songs in. Hung with dudes, Sean Murphy, Jim C, Matt Dude, Papa Drop. Later, Sweet Pete, Hudon and Pat Flynn roll up. Hung with them outside during AGT. Strike got people going and Bane set it over the top. Bob crew was stage diving way over the weight limit, but would proudly come back up on stage bragging about his dives. They were actually worse than mine. Mine were pretty bad. Jim C is considering a stage dive intervention. One great dive RIGHT onto Travis from This Is Hell. Just Travis. This Is Hell dudes appreciated it greatly. Sold 2 HYE shirts, then left all of them by accident with Bane. Said my goodbyes to all those dudes, especially Hallee. Looking forward to Dec 30. Punker dude told me about sweaty backs in clean cars, then tried to get me to eat freegan donuts with his crew. Yeah, no thanks.)
November 3, 2006 @ Tiger's Den Brockton Mass: Have Heart, Listen Up, ... (Hit up New Asia with Pete, then to the show. Showed up as late as possible. Watched Listen Up. Have Heart was good. Low stage meant many singing potatos. Pat gave a anti violence speech and I watched some kid get a giant elbow in the nose during the mosh. Blood all over. Dropped off Pauly and Crew at Simmons then the drive home.)
November 4, 2006 @ Italian American Club Worcester Mass: With Honor (Pat Flynn singing), Ambitions, Wake Up And Live, ... (Dinner at Nancy Chang's with Pete and Cushman. Then cushman left for a movie. Show was in the worst location, impossible to find. Found it courtesy of Nicky running down the street. Then all the cars in the lot were getting towed. Stupid. Hung with pete, got psyched up for Ambitions. Dude vomitted during Wake Up And Live due to hard pitting. Ambitions was GOOD. They played Astro Zombies. No stage though. With Honor finished it up nicely.)
December 29, 2006 @ Some church South Paris ME: Bane, Outbreak, FC Five, ... (Hallee showed up at my house around 3, then went to pick up Cushman. Stopped at the Friendly Toast for bummer "non-vegan" food talk. Hit up the show before FC Five plays. Hang with Dalbec, Claire and Pete. Much talk about oink holiday with Bedard. Outbreak gets a great reaction. Bane plays. So freaking good. Maybe 150-200 kids. Half are giving it all. Lay the Blame was fun but shaky. It psyched up Cushman but sent him into retirement afterward. Tried to offer 2 canadian girls a place to stay, the decided to sleep on the streets of providence instead (or an expensive hotel in prov). Long ride home.)
December 30, 2006 @ The Palladium Downstairs Worcester Mass: Bane, Overcast, Evergreen Terrace, Outbreak, FC Five, Ambitions (Real long day. Slept until 10am. Chores, then hung with Hallee. Bedard was supposed to call around 12:30 for Quan Yin run. Around 1, we decide to drive to Bedard's dad's house. Not sure where it was excactly, but luckily Dawn sees us out back and invites us in, "You are in charge of waking him." Wake up bedard as I'm getting an edgebreak text from Mitch. Wacky. Before we can leave, Dawn snaps off a pic of Bedard, Hallee and myself with her new digital camera. Bedard may be embarrassed. Quan Yin is a go. Lots of good eats and free lemon cake. Get to the show and do a ton of numbering/cd stuffing with Hallee, Claire and Carla. Off to IParty. Apparently silly string is banned in Millbury. "Biatch" as I'm walking out acts up. Lame. Show is going smoothly. Merch is flying off the shelves. I end up with a hood that all the letters have fallen off of. Overcast merch table is overrun by banners and merch guy looks bummed from lack of any sales. Ambitions sounds great. Other bands come and go. Meeting with Big Bob is a bane related crew tattoo. We'll see. Bane hits the stage amongst 50 of their closest friends. Nick plays 5 songs including the Bjork-Enjoy cover, then Ian and Stu get up for "Maybe Next Summer" So dope. During Every Effort Made I lose my mind. Stage diving on the stage into potatos, losing it. During Swan Song, I am stage diving off the drum risers onto people ON the stage. Such a great time. Then back to unload a TON of merch. Many posters. Finally chilling. Afterward, Denny's with Evergreen Terrace dudes. Josh keeps telling stories about his dad's fascination with snacks. Everyone is shredded. Drop bedard off at his dad's house, then give Big Bob a futon at my house to sleep on. a+ day.)
January 05, 2007 @ The Cambridge Elks Lodge Cambridge Mass: H2O (Melissa and I drove into the big city for this one. First we hit up My Thai (new Buddha's in Brookline). Jesus, it was good. Reminded me of the lily pad. So freaking good. Must get a "meat" dish next time. Then to the show. We rolled up around 9pm to the sounds of H2O already playing. Saw TX Mike at the door, he told us about the $12 price. We decided it was better to enjoy the nice night outside for free than the sweaty pit inside for $24. Went to get a drink, and mint mojito Orbits gum. Melissa's gum choice. Real oddish. Merrick was hanging with Guy from Red Corps. Good times. We shot the shit for the whole set. Melissa and him have WAY to much in common (NPR, worcester state, ...). Pike was busy post show with drama/beef. Melissa and I broke out as Toby was giving a speech from the front steps of the Elks lodge.)
January 20, 2007 @ The QVCC Worcester Mass: Have Heart (I Rise), Cold World, Lion Of Judah, War Hungry, Step Forward (I booked this one. Got all the bands by myself. Joe and Merrick were in there too though. Guns Up! cancelled, of course. Oh well. I showed up at 6 straight from my nana's 85th bday party. No one around yet. Scace was the only band dude, and probably only 15 people waiting out front. Super cold outside. Bands started rolling in as did kids. Kenny had to work until 6pm in Middleboro. He showed up at 730 and Step Forward started it right. Josh Fontaine took a super digger and would later go get a CAT scan. He's ok. War Hungry played a great set, LOJ did too. Cold World had people going bananas. Hoodrack did a 5-6 step headwalk. Very tight. Nicky then asked if I Rise could play 2 songs because everyone was playing short sets. Have Heart had 2 fill-ins so only knew 8 songs. Fine by me. I Rise then ripped it up. Insane. A bunch of people left before Have Heart played, but Pat still gave it 110%. After the show, I paid the bands and quote of the night from Ritter: "Are you serious? ... [me worried I had stiffed them] ... We'll play here every weekend." Got a lot of chill time with Casali, Bedard, CC and AJ. Traded a slayer shirt to CC for a Step Forward shirt, a Get Down shirt and a STAND HARD shirt. Not the label but the dude. AJ hooked me up with a Bane shirt, Mental shirt [stained] and threw an AN shirt into Pike's bin of crappy shirts. I basically only sold the junk I put into that bin, minus 1 champion hood. 3 shirts from LOJ (4 really, but a double). Shirt from War Hungry (again, somehow doubled). Great night. Great night. Merch report: Get Down L, Stand Hard 90s XL, LOJ dog L, LOJ Universal Peace L, 2 neon green fists, 2 hungry by nature L, Bane Spam L (from AJ), ... more I think) flyer
January 25, 2007 @ 6 NEEP Burlington Mass: Promotion to SR
January 27, 2007 @ The Palladium (Upstairs): Terror, All Shall Perish, ... (A Pike/Merrick event spectacular. Rolled up to Nancy Changs with Pike and LarryB. I had ate vegan nachos earlier, but I was down for scallion pie. Ian told us about getting engaged. Rolled up to the show, parking took a minute but somehow I still beat Pike to the front door. Got wrist bands from Gina (Palladium Honcho). Bands played. Chilled with Merrick a lot. All Shall Perish (kenmore band) came out and disrobed. They were all wearing Warriors shiny shirts and short shorts. Pics soon. Another band then Terror. All night, one dude kept crowd surfing. He was wearing fingerless gloves. During All Shall Perish, he was wearing a terror tshirt. Then during the next band, it was down to a wife beater, and finally, during terror, he was shirtless with TERROR written on his chest in permanent marker. He did lots and lots of crowd surfing. Very bad. Dudes broke out before Terror, but the crowd was nearly sold out. One fight during Terror, "Not bad, I'll take it. I'd rather no fights, but I'll take one." -- Scott. Then two more push fights erupted. Sone little beb was stage diving, it was his first show. Greg and BM (Bob Mahoney) were backstage chilling before Terror. Good times, good times.)
February 02, 2007 @ The Roller Kingdom, Hudson Mass: Guns Up (last show), Have Heart, Verse, Shipwreck, Harder The Fight, Resist (Bonkers show. Walked from my house. So friggin cold. Inside the gig was packed. Show was on the rink. All the bands were awesome, kids packed in tight. It snowed A LOT during the gig. Lots of people stuck in the parking lot. I walked home down the middle of unplowed streets to a cloudless, full moon night. Glorious.)
March 02, 2007 @ Cambridge Elks Lodge, Cambridge Mass: The Geeks, Ambitions, Down To Nothing, Have Heart, Bane (rolled to Waltham, grabbed Mike. We hit up TJs and I got some leftovers out of it. Dope. Hit up the show. Swampy as hell. Kids were going bonkers. I forgot my cam. Ashley was ruining the scene by unjustly profiting off the kids. Have Heart was killing it. Bane mopped it up. I was up front behind Zac's amps with Cush, AJ, some Canadians (kr and katie), Eyebrow, his girl and Zac's girl. Things were chill. Maine was wrecking shop with ill dives. A 3 block comes along with Every Effort Made in the middle. I wasn't prepared and was quickly emptying my pockets. Good times. Gave Bedard some pants. Got some sneakers via Nick Final Plan. Saw Mike's office. Not too shabby. Home by midnight. Merch report: Bane demo shirt, black)
March 03, 2007 @ VFW, Nashua NH: The Geeks, Ambitions, Down To Nothing, Have Heart, Bane (a little weird. Solo mission. Paid entry then got denied when I tried to break out for mock meats, "no re-entry." Oh well. The Geeks killed it again, Ki had a million positive things to say. Funny shit too. Ambitions was great, as was Down To Nothing and Have Heart. I was more prepared for Bane this time. Lots of great songs, thin crowd. Somehow Maine still managed a ton of dives. I got one and connected the side of my foot to the "Never leaves the stage, have heart kid." Oops. Hanging with Mikey Raio, Dave DTN busted the zipper off my hood. Gave bedard a ride home. Stories galore: headlining over SDRE, health insurance, good times. Merch Report: DTN smorgasbord shirt)
March 04, 2007 @ El N Gee, New London CT: Check Your Face, The Geeks, Down To Nothing, Bateman, Ambitions, Bane (After the Celtics, rolled out to Boylston to snag Bedard. Listened. to a cd worth of gems bringing back memories galore for Bedard. Great stories. Ride home stories involved metal head who smoothly busted some dudes up with a skateboard, Worcester Subway with the Backbone tag, COSA on Harvard St, Larry & Sally, ... Showed up before The Geeks and DTN played. Great vibes. Ki has some cool shit to say. DTN was dope. Merch dude Ryan had busted his hand during Have Heart in NH so they were busting on him. Then Bateman. "I talk shit because I can." Ambitions got a cool response then a little Bane. All along it looked like it was going to be weird, but Bane got a great reaction. Very cool. Hung around waiting for Bedard. Lots of end of tour hugs, goofing, ridic pics, ... Sweet. The highlight of this show was when Bateman talked smack on Bane and Bane merch. Then GAVE ONE SHIRT away to a cake splattered dude as the only "sale" I saw that night.)
March 05, 2007 @ QVCC Worcester Mass: Soul Control, I Rise, Ambitions, Verse, Bane (Grabbed bedard, gave him some slices of the "Things To Do Today" paper, hit up the show. Started mad late, courtesy of a jack knifed bane van. But Dodgy Dave (I think??) was a real man and got them out. Showed up at 6:30, first band didn't start until almost 8. Soul Control was first. Burn cover (semi awkward shout out to bedard), chill times. Then I Rise. Lots of moshing, Nicky needs a haircut. Ambitions was up again. Great tunes, but same set list as the 4 other nights including similar, very similar banter. Verse did their thing then Bane. Great times. Thin crowd up front, but plenty of room for the mosh. Fuck What You Heard, Both Guns Blazing, ... Gems. Hung with Chucky Edge, Bourbeau, Amanda P and Raio most of the night. Sold 2 HYE shirts. Gave 3-4 away. Forgot I wasn't giving Bedard a ride home and didn't leave until midnight. Doh. Merch report: I Rise mustard shirt, Soul Control grey shirt, pins from each band)
April 28, 2007 @ The Palladium (mostly downstairs), Worcester Mass: Worcester Metal & Hardcore Fest (with zero hardcore bands): Job for a Cowboy, The Red Chord, ... (Very few bands were watched. Day began with hanging with Nick S. and Cushman. Some falafel at the Sahara followed by vegan cupcakes. Killer combo. Then dropped off to meet up with Pike and Merrick. Hit up Kangaroo Crossing and to my surprise, BMP FSR. So I lurked for 30 minutes until a trunk showed up and broke out with two pairs. Mine in a 12, Pete's in a 10.5. Hung with Pike, Merrick and Julie. Lots of chilling. Very little band watching. Job For a Cowboy killed it though.)
May 26, 2007 @ Cambridge Elks Lodge, Cambridge Mass: The Wrong Side (Showed up hella late. Brought MY DAD. Great times!)
June 30, 2007 @ Hudson Roller Rink, Hudson Mass: End Of School Jam: Wake Up Call, Soul Control, Verse, 108, Have Heart (Crucial BBQ, the big time. Every one was 90 minutes late. Shumskys and AJT showed up first, followed by 108. It was little awkward to start but chill dudes and plenty of good times. Pete, AJ and CO showed up later. Great food, plenty of time spent preparing then enjoying. Hung with AJT and Joe until 5 or 6 then off to the show. Hung with Jim C and Soul Control. Much talk of the Sumer Of Glove Tour 2007. Mitch was chilling, met her new dude, Russ. Good times. 200+ kids getting down. Time warp kid: XL snapcase shirt, bleach blonde hair, big chunky necklace, baggy ass pants with frayed hems, ... Wow. Lots of girls who just came from their jobs at Abercrombie, so fucking weird. Lots of dope sets. Soul Control blew minds in 2 songs. 108 was amazing, very eye opening, very awesome. Have Heart got usual insane, intense reaction. Walked home, post rain. Merch: traded the bin of shirts for a Have Heart JP/DE/US tour shirt M, and a Reign Supreme Lakers style shirt.)
July 7, 2007 @ AS220, Providence RI: Rampage Record Release w/ Rampage, Righteous Jams, Step Forward, Mind Eraser, Municipal Waste, ... (Hung with Casali most of the night. Show was slated for 7pm but didn't start until about 9pm. Hitting up Starbucks, running into Morgan, standing around outside. Spent time chatting up Kate McGuire and people I haven't seen in a while. Good show. AJ moshed over a drum set, not on purpose, during Rampage. The bands played well, not a super ton of reaction. For a $7 show, you'd think kids would be coming out in droves. Oh well. Met the guy who owns the Providence "XXX" license plate. Not edge. Step Forward was good, as usual, despite kenny being a little hoarse. Rampage was awesome. Lots of energy from Josh P. We broke out before RJ unfortunately. I heard they killed it.)
August 15, 2007 @ The Midway Cafe, Boston Mass: War Hungry, Iron Age (hung early with Mt Vernon crew - Pete, Greg, Jack, then Lil Man and AJ. Rolled to the show. Traded the poster to Hoodrack. Got some shirts. "Hey, can you get my webmaster in?" to doorman, Danny Brooklyn?? And boom, free show. Amazing. Small venue, a little strange. War Hungry was good, but crowd was self conscious of small joint. Iron Age got the crowd stirring. Then I broke out. Drove all over JP, finally got to 93, 15 minutes later. Home by 9:30. Sweet)
August 19, 2007 @ Roller Kingdom, Hudson Mass: Righteous Jams, Energy, Risky Business, Rampage, ... (Watched Ice Road Truckers and rolled up late with Cushman. Sunday afternoon show, started at 5pm, we got there around 7:45. We missed Hour Of the Wolf, Pitfall and Wake Up Call. Ice Road Truckers was good though. Rampage was excellent. Josh P made a speech about everyone crowding in because "they were used to small, small venues." Lots of moshing pushed a horshoe back. Good shit. Some girl did some slow mosh for Risky Business. Those Canadians didn't get a ton of love. Did some hanging with Shumskies and AJT. Saw AJ, Greg, Scace, Josh P and Nicole, DFJ, Joey C, ... Kids exploded for the "whoa whoas" of Energy. RJ began with a new track. zero mosh. They then played Invasion. Kids started killing each other. Amazingness. Joey told us about being veg. Pretty chill. Home at 10:15 and watched the season finale of Ice Road Truckers. Dope.)
October 20, 2007 @ Welfare Records, Haverhill Mass: Edge Day: Ten Yard Fight Scab, Verse, Have Heart, The First Step, ... Let Down, The Mongoloids (missed both) (I missed most of the bands because I showed up at 6 or 630, and then spent most of the time talking to Bourbeau and Tim outside. Doh. Tim and I wore the same Hardware Fanzine shirt. Double doh. Who'd have guessed two people would wear a shirt for a new jersey zine from the mid 90s? Kids enjoyed TFS. Verse got a great response. I moshed super poorly aka old man for Ten Yard Fight. It was sooo swampy and hot. A few wack stage dives, but loved it. Really loved it. Made me remember what shows were like. All the sweat and singing along. I was fucking into it. Have Heart received a sick reaction. National Geographic was there. They recorded the whole gig. Wrench and crew did as well. Camera man from National Geo said he focused on me a few times because I was doing great. Must be a mockumentary. Got to hang with Pete's Jen. She is chill. Quiet and chill. Lots of dudes at this show: Clevo, Wrench, Pete, Tim, Bourbeau, Kurt, Steb, Dylan, Aram, ... 11 bands and I was still home at 1230 even with hanging with Pete afterward for a bit. I did miss the post party vegan goods though. Boooo)
October 26, 2007 @ Blender Worcester Mass: Really just vegan cupcakes (So lazy. I had wanted to attend this show but Melissa wasn't really down for hanging with mad people. We went out to Worcester for vegan cupcakes, enjoyed them, minus the weird art guy in the bean counter and drove by Blenders. We drove by twice, saw no one we knew and drove home. HAHAH)
October 27, 2007 @ NYC: Chillin (Drove to NYC with Pete and Mike. Good times. Went to VP2 for mad eats with Ben. Walked the city, supreme was closed. Hit up the giant Whole Foods on the Bowery, 2 vegan scones. Caught the game at a pizza joint with espresso, perfect match for the scone. Walked the streets more. Sox win. Ticket. Who knew meter's ran until 10pm. Back to Ben's house in Brooklyn for hours of Halo 3. Asleep at 4.)
October 28, 2007 @ First Unitarian Church, Philly PA: Floorpunch, Have Heart, Cold World (Amazing day. Up at 9am, not much sleep. Grabbed aram on the corner of Roebling and Broadway. He had vegan donuts! Got some starbucks then headed to Philly. Lots of crucial talk. Mucho good talk. Drove around philly aimlessly for a while. Drove within a block or two of the restaurant, then about 15-20 blocks west and back. Ugh, very annoying. Parking was $15, then chilled at Kingdom. Good eats. Pete met some girl named Caitlin there. Chill. Walked to the show, hung outside for a while, saw tons of dudes: Kenny, Kurt, Mikey Raio (wtf??), met Bill Punch, TDT again ... Saw have heart from the side of the stage, they always impress. Went to wawa during Cold World. Missed a fight?? FP was awesome, literally awesome. Watching video, I'm reminded how terrible a stage diver I am. So good. At one point, I couldn't stage dive far enough away (haha) to get off the stage, went back and fourth 5-6 times. Got winded after the middle and chilled. Then busted for the last few songs. Great times. Hung outside for a bit then decided to get the car while Pete and Aram did their thing. Drove back to NYC, hit up Food Swings and then drove all the way home. Some traffic, home for 3:30-4. Ugh. Next day, slept until 12:40. Good times!)
January 05, 2008 @ Welfare Records, Haverhill Mass: Have Heart, Down To Nothing, Wake Up Call, Cruel Hand, Lie And Wait (show was supposed to start at 530pm. I showed up at 730 as the first band was starting. Lie And Wait. Monchy. Cruel Hand was next. Talked to Bourbeau almost all night. Him and Pete. Most other dudes were unknown to me. I was introduced to Radical Alex, someone new. Wake Up Call got kids going, they covered something. I can't recall what now. Watched Down To Nothing kill it. Very posi vibe, good dudes. Some super inappropriately dressed girls. I kept thinking their vaginas were going to fall out of their short skirts or from their low rise pants. Stood on the railing for Have Heart. Sooo good. Very tight, very on. Did one stage dive during the last show, and that was only so I wouldn't have to climb down. I'm pretty sure I pulled a muscle climbing up. Fuckin' old man. I was home before 11pm.)
January 12, 2008 @ The Palladium Upstairs Worcester Mass: Bane, With Honor, Outbreak, Silent Drive, ... (Some pre show Halo with Cushmans, then off to Udupi for quite the gathering. Pete and Jen, Briggs, Hudon and Ryan, and then Yu and Amanda P. Big showing. Jen was nyet psyched on indian. Later in the night, my stomach was nyet psyched. The Palladium should consider getting doors on those stalls, and stronger pipes. Pete, Jen, Mike and Yu went to WPI to watch the Pats game and skipped the whole show. Wack. Outbreak was good. Kids were super into it. I watched from behind the band. Good shit. Up and down the back staircase the whole time. At one point, a security guard caught me and wanted to throw me out. We walked up the stairs, out the door and I mouthed to Amanda "Is He Following Me??" He was. Bedard hooked it up, thankfully. Bane was ill. So many dives. Bug eye pic is taken by Dan Future-breed during Bane. Great times.)
January 13, 2008 @ Welfare Records, Haverhill Mass: Bane, With Honor, Outbreak, ... (I showed up as Outbreak was finishing. Sort of forget the show was starting so early. I was there for 7pm too. I missed the Resist Cd release. Doh. Texting with Mikey Raio about a girl in a funny hat. LOLz. With Honor was chill. I hung with Pete and Bourbeau while they played. Bane set was ill. During the first song, I did some head walking and I swear Bedard incorporated my name into the lyrics, Weird. haha. They played Every Effort Made and for a while I was the only one losing it. Lacoste guilted them into playing Both Guns Blazing and the place lit up. Plenty of stage dives. Lots of good ones, plenty of bad/poor ones. I was home before 11pm. Sweet.)
February 16, 2008 @ Club Hell Providence RI: Verse 5th Anniversary Show: Verse, Have Heart, Down To Nothing, The First Step, Shipwreck, Soul Control (missed: Meltdown, Rampage) (Good show, good show. Lots of people I haven't seen in a while. Pauly Edge, Pete, Aram, Jim C, PLANTE!, Chucky Edge, Bacon, Steb, Posi Josh P, ... Good dudes. Show was chill. Shipwreck got a dope response. Kids were going off. Dude from Foundation was stage diving his ass off. Made everyone else look like n00bs. Dylan hooked me up with a TFS EP early and I carried it all night. TFS was real dope. Kids were all about it. I hung behind the base cab. Down To Nothing was awesome, same with Have Heart. At that point, I got moved from my spot for Hudon's parents. I can deal with that. It worked out because then I chilled with Plante through out HxH and Verse. Big fan of Plante. After the show, Aram hooked me up with a white React! hood. So freaking dope. And I got a vegan brownie from Mitch's friend. Sweet.)
April 04, 2008 @ Welfare Records, Haverhill MA: Blacklisted, Shipwreck, Verse ... (Worked late due to DMOC testing next week. Not too bad, someone left a full sleeve of lemonade girl scout cookies behind. Rolled out to the show in time to hear Living Hell hit the stage. Hung with Bedard, Blacklisted dudes. Bourbeau rolled up, Scace, Jim C, Mitch then Tre later. Good hang all around. Verse was very good. Despite a thin crowd, kids got into it. Shipwreck played, kids moshed. Long songs. Blackilisted rounded out the night. I was impressed. No TJ but still ill. Crowd was still thin and at one point, Chucky Edge was sitting on the monitor on the right side of the stage. Kid goes to stage dive INTO chucky and some how pulls chucky down to land basically on his head. Weird. Home before midnight. No Pete. He was driving Jen to the airport.)
April 26, 2008 @ The Palladium, Worcester MA: Metal & Hardcore Fest: Acacia Strain & Behemoth (Hung with Pike, Merrick and Storch. Very good times. Rolled up, ran into Pike & Merrick right away. Nick was psyched to see me. He looked soooo unmetal. It was almost weird. Then I rolled with Pike & Merrick + Bridgewater and Friends to Quan Yin II. Got some soup and appetizers, talked the talk. All promoters or music affiliated. I was the sore thumb software engineer. Back to the Palladium. Hung on stage watching Acacia Strain. Eh. Then got booted off stage along with everyone else while Behemoth set up. Wow. Lots of fake blood, ripping up bibles, wacky times. Then I broke out before Shadows Fall played. Good evening, no doubt)
May 01, 2008 @ Welfare Records, Haverhill MA: Bane, Wake Up Call, Meltdown, I Rise, Maintain (This was my last day of work. I stayed at the office until 6:30. Waited for Mike as we were going to hit up indian food before the show. Mike pussed out. Late nights and 7am meetings add up. I skipped Indian food and went straight to the venue. Showed up for 7. Not one band had played yet, despite mention of a 6pm start. Hung with Raio a lot. Heard some insane stories about ExC tour. Chatted up Bourbeau, Sweet Pete, Bedard, Amanda P -- she gave me a pop tart too -- Bob and Zach tried to break into Bob's car. He locked himself out. Pete got a speeding ticket, things were turning up aces for Bane that night. Maintain kicked off the show, I missed most of them as I was next door talking with Amanda P and the undercover store clerk. I Rise's set was awesome. Nicky called out all the people standing at the balcony. Amazing. Got slammed during the first note of meltdown and went and sat with Bourbeau. Wake Up Call played. Chill times. Then Bane played. Maybe 150 kids in attendance. It was a little thin. Real thin. And some 250+ lb kid kept stage diving. After the show, I talked to him about it, but I think he thought I was kidding around. Dude was nyet cool. He was slaying little girls left and right with his dives. Bane set was good. Energy from the band was good, but the crowd was lackluster. Drove home with Mikey Raio, more detailed stories. Dude is fired up. Then into bed for almost 2am. Raio got the couch.)
May 02, 2008 @ Mercy House, Amherst MA: Bane, I Rise, Meltdown, (Wake Up Call, Ghost Town Fury, Talk Is Cheap) (Rolled with Dalbec and Raio through Worcester. We were going to ride in the van with Zach, but he wanted to bring his girl. Things got confused and drawn out after Bob mentioned rolling through worcester with his wife too. We ended up driving the van the 3 of us, raio, dalbec and me while Zach and Bob rode up later seperately. Weirdos. Of course, the van's inspection sticker expired in Sept 07 and the registration couldn't be found anywhere. No problems on the drive. I don't envy the band driving to VA Beach without a trailer. So packed with just 3 dudes. Stopped at the Black Sheep cafe for a sandwich and cupcake. Yum. Steeply priced but tasty. Then it was off to the Mercy House. After some misdirections, we found it. Upon entering, a band -- possibly ghost town fury -- was playing No Sleep Til Brooklyn. Kids were MOSHING. Tight. The vibe tonight was 10x better than last night. It was a good feeling. I Rise had another great set. I spent most of the night shelling Bane gear with Raio. Hung more with Amanda P. Saw E Mitch and some kid kept calling me and Raio his "niggas." I ended up giving him a Crowded Room repress shirt because he waited so long for us to find an XL in ANY design. He was fucking stoked and later moshed his ass off for Bane, especially during Count Me Out -- like the 6th member of Bane. Met AJ's new girl. Bane had a GREAT set tonight. No stage, but kids were fucking stoked on Bane being back in western ma. It was great times. Later, drove home with the same crew plus Bedard. Dude was psyched on the show. Then we talked poker, tour and life the whole ride home. I was feeling it. WAG talk was chill. I think I made it home for 2am again.)
May 06, 2008 @ Framingham Union, Framingham MA: Jaw Surgery (Good times ... lol)
July 16, 2008 @ The Palladium (upstairs) Worcester Mass: Bane, Cruel Hand, Clouds, Wake Up Call (I found out about this show two days prior. It was super last minute. 20 minutes before rolling through Hudson on my way to the show, I told Mike about it. He was initially down. Then 10 minutes before picking him up, he decided he ate too much and didn't want to poop at the palladium. He asked if I wanted to play video games intead. PASS. Drove to the 6pm doors / 6:30 start show. 7pm, no bands had played yet. Talked to Q before the gig, then found Dalbec to hang with. He gave me a wrist band. Chilled inside with Ian Incite and Rich G, Matt Goat Island too. Wake Up Call played first. They got the crowd moving. Great set. Then clouds chilled us out. Spent time taling to Amanda P and giving earplugs to Keara. Cruel Hand hopped up next. Wow, they destroyed the place. Good shit. Bedard showed me the set list talking about how it was the 10th anniversary of Holding This Moment so they were going to play a bunch of those tracks. Looking at the set list, I commented, "this could be the track listing for a greatest hits album." Bedard wouldn't agree because Superhero wasn't on the set list. They opened with Both Guns Blazing and kids lost it. Ali Vs Frazier, Count Me Out, Every Effort Made - yes, Can We Start Again. I spent time doing terrible stage dives and keeping Zach's mic upright. AJ was there and kept unbuttoning his shirt one button per song. Sort of funny. He had some great dives, as did Chris Link. Then they played Superhero. Bedard later told me it was because Pete was nervous to play Sunflowers and Sunsets. Understandable. Ended the night chilling with Chris Cruel Hand and Amanda P. Good night and home for 11pm.)
September 06, 2008 @ Anchors Up (ex Welfare Records) Haverhill Mass: Killing Time (I flew back from ABQ this day. Drove through Hudson in an attempt to get Mike to roll. He wasn't around or something. Mike rolled! Wild. Upon entering, Amanda P told me to get "the fuck out." Apparently she and bedard had a bet on whether I would show up. I did. Amanda P lost. I missed Wake Up Call and Outbreak and whomever else played sadly. Killing Time was awesome though. Anthony was on point between songs and they sounded good. Hung in the back with Amanda P. Both of us were amazed when Ben P lost his mind moshing. Ride home was chill.)
October 03, 2008 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: This Is Hell, The Carier, The Effort, Ignorance, ... (Worked late that Friday night. Spent some time working on a HYE Swap feature. Then off to Whole Foods. Grabbed some Odwalla for Travis. Arrived at the show for 8:30. Not super packed. Pretty unfull, in fact. And after the Carrier played, it basically emptied out for This Is Hell. Hung with Merrick, Travis and This Is Hell. Good times. They played well, but empty crowd gave no response. Weak. Merch: This Is Hell alien eye laser shirt)
October 04, 2008 @ EMPAC, Troy NY: Juiceboxx, J-Rocc, Madlib (Jason put this show together so there was no way in hell I wasn't going. A little weird. It was in this big room with a 360 degree screen that lowered from the ceiling. It was up so people could see the DJs. Madlib and J-Rocc warmed the crowd up from 11:30-midnight. Then juiceboxx got the crowd going (and crowd surfing!! ugh) with his set. He was AMPED. Then Madlib and J-Rocc came back out and rocked it. Lots of dope tracks, not too much quas stuff. Koushik was chilling on stage too. The light show was weird, but crapped out towards the end. The stalker is a ghost. After the show, Jason gave me, Madlib and Juiceboxx a ride. LOL, rolling with Otis. In bed for ~4am.)
October 09, 2008 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: True Colors, Pitfall, Bear Trap, Think Again (Thursday night show. Weird, but since it was True Colors and I heard the hype, I had to go. Think Again started it strong. They played a Cro-Mags cover and it sounded oddly unhard. I mostly chatted with Bourbeau the whole time. Then TFS superfans showed up to mosh for True Colors. All Fired Up, Preston, his boy and Tim McCauliffe.)
October 18, 2008 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: National Edge Day 2008 Show: Have Heart, Let Down, Mongoloids, Standhard + Invasion, Rampage, Blank Stare, Step Forward, Waste Management, No Tolerance, Free Spirit
October 31, 2008 @ The ICC Allston Mass: Bane, H2O, Energy, Cruel Hand (Halloween, ill)
November 08, 2008 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: Slapshot, First And Ten (TYF), (Word For Word, COA) (This was a weird starting afternoon-ish show. I did house work solo since Melissa was at her insurance convention and ended up rolling up late. Or what I thought was late. Show was supposed to start at 3pm. I got there close to 4:30 and the second band was only half way done. It was already quite warm. I brought a varsity jacket to trade to Bourbeau. Fit like a glove. His, sadly, did not fit me at all. Hung with Clevo then Bourbeau, Ken and Tim. Chill. No Pete, no Garvey, oddly. First And Ten were chill. It wasn't packed up close as much as I would have liked so dives by me were minimal. I think Tim and Bourbeau were captured in every single TYF pic taken. Then Slapshot played. Choke told some funny jokes, they played some cool songs. It was way too friggin hot. I bounced. No rain on me, but it still felt like my sneakers were sponges. I even drove home without a shirt on. Apparently girls fainted after I left. A few dudes threw up. Josh emailed me the next day asking if I had left my jacket behind. I thought Bourbeau was going to take it. He didn't. He thought I was going to take it. I didn't. LOL)
February 28, 2009 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: Mindset, Give, Alert, The Effort, Think Again, Fugitives & Refugees ... (Big bill, like 9 bands worth. Lots for a 630pm show. Plante was rolling up with Mindset so I was down to chill. I rolled up around 7pm and missed the first two bands. D'oh. Hung with Bourbeau, Plante hung, Ashley too. Then I was sitting when Crucial John sat next to me. I honestly thought he was PL. Wow. Then he pointed out Gene and Ian LOJ. I didn't even see them sitting in the couch across from me. hahah. Talked to Gene about Central America for a really long time. The Effort really impressed me tonight. This was the first time when they really blew my hair back. Alert was excellent too. Lots of covers, plenty of energy. Give was up next. It was Crucial John's new band. Sort of Swiz / Into Another / bar band. They were an unexpected addition to the show. It killed the energy Alert had built up, but I could see where they were trying to go with the band. Mindset closed the night out. By this time, most people had already left. Actually, most everyone left after The Effort played. Real strange. Thankfully, they got a great reaction and sounded on top. Rolled home around 1130 after talking with Mike P. for a while. Said peace to plante et al and blew out. Good times. Merch: Mindset Crewneck, tee; Alert tee; The Effort longsleeve; IME tee from Bourbeau)
March 17, 2009 @ The House Of Blues Boston, Mass: Bane, Dropkick Murphys (Stu hooked Bane up with a dope St. Patty's day show in Boston with the Dropkicks. Rolled up to Mt Vernon with Mike after work. Grabbed Pete and drove towards BU. Ate at a chinese restaurant in the basement. Mock chicken was good. Walked to HOB. Showed up during irish band's last song. Bane started up at 745. I was worried the crowd would boo and taunt, but Bedard and Zach did a good job of keeping them focused on the Murphys. Bouncers and big barrier, but a little platform that connected the stage to the barrier for the singer. We hung on the side of stage, on the floor, with Bob Shedd. I watched a security guard set up a wooden platform to stand on against the stage. Perfect step up to the stage. Before Count Me Out, said security guard had to help a drunk girl in the front row out of the club. That was my cue to dive. Security wasn't feeling, but I was. I think I helped spark crowd surfing too. Good times. Fatter shirtless kid raging in the pit, lots of push pitting. Turns out he knew the words. Who knew? Bane ended and we broke out immediately. I was home before 10pm. dope!)
April 11, 2009 @ The Palladium Worcester, Mass: The New England Hardcore & Metal Fest: Featuring Terror, Have Heart, Cold World, This Is Hell, ... (An actual metal fest with hardcore bands. Wow, it's been years since this happened.)
April 29, 2009 @ Club Hell Providence RI: Bane, Rival Mob, Have Heart, Free Spirit, Outrage
June 20, 2009 @ Blenders NYC: Sick Of It All, Bane, Capital, Inhuman (Free train ride to NYC courtesy of Mike. Hit up Lan Cafe and Lula's, so flipping good. Then walked to Blenders. Starbucks with Stu and Dalbec. Hung out with Bedard downstairs then sold Merch next to Brooke with SOIA. Good merch sales. Mostly hung behind the table all night, but the club had tvs set up displaying the show. Cool touch. Bane was good. Played a new song. First new song I've heard in ages. This was the "not-as" epic one. Sounds good. Hung behind the table more, got swamped with people wanting gear. $5 tshirt bin was a big hit. Broke out and drove back to Mass. Talked with Dalbec for hours about vegan restaurants around the US. Probably 3 hours of vegan talk. Home at 430 AM)
June 25, 2009 @ Getaway Group Studios (Jay Maas) Wakefield, Mass: Bane backups for the two new EPs (Rolled with Cushman. Hung with AJ, Tre, Bobby, Zach, Bedard, Justin Nadeau, Dalbec, ...)
July 25, 2009 @ The Palladium downstairs Worcester, Mass: Gig Life Tour: Set Your Goals, A Loss For Words, Fireworks, ... (Great gig. Spent all day at the beach with Casalis, got a sunburn then rolled to the gig. Pike hooked me up with backstage pass so hung with Merrick and Scott outside for a bit. Hung with Pete, Sondi, Nicky (mickey?), Matt SYG, little time with Pike, he was busy. Fireworks were cool, so was AL4W. Pete was supposed to do his part in the last song they played. They didn't warn him or announce him so he didn't just "randomly" grab the mic. Ridic. Kids were chanting for Set Your Goals when the banner unfurled. WILD. No love getting on stage for SYG because I didn't have a laminate. Thankfully, Scott was near the backdoor and waved me through. Yes! Great view from the stage, so many crowd surfers. New songs are great. Broke out before Four Year Strong as I was wiped. Great day.)
August 09, 2009 @ The Palladium downstairs Worcester, Mass: 10 For 10 Tour: Bane, Terror, This Is Hell, Poison The Well, ... (Another big ass gig. Sunday afternoon fun. Started around 3. I rolled up for 4pm. Was busy driving around town grabbing sneakers. No True Blue IIIs at expressions, euro only. WACK. Raio was in town so instead of getting eats pre-gig, I went and hung with him. Chilled with Zach and Stu. Good times. Later with Chedge and Hoodrack. Lots of kids at Gig Life, 3/4 or 2/3 the kids at 10 For 10. Sort of weak. Rolled out at 530 for eats. Hit up the Sahara and Bean Counter for vegan cupcakes. While asking Trav if he wanted one, a girl he was standing with said "you can't find vegan cupcakes in worcester" like it was a challenge. I found one and gave her one later. Turns out it was Jessie Lee. Who knew? This Is Hell got barely any recognition. Weak because they sounded good. Of course, the huge barrier sucked and didn't help. Vogel was on point. Sooooo good. "Get up here! Get up here!" Poison the Well. Uhhh. Bane sounded good. Wide barrier gap sucked life hard. Made stage dives for me nearly impossible. I got one in. Security was HATING life. Grillo's Crew on stage with tees, throwing out freebies, wylin out. A little tipsy so when they dove, they ate it hard. My one stage dive was captured on someone's point and shoot cam. Pretty weak, and later, busted ass rib. Hung more with Raio. Grabbed some merch then rolled out. Left before VOD played. Late night for a Sunday.)
August 11, 2009 @ Home: WBCN RIP (stayed up until Midnight listening to WBCN go to static. Pretty sentimental times. Shine On You Crazy Diamond)
August 13, 2009 @ ICC Allston Mass: Bane, The Suicide File, Alpha & Omega, Foundation, Harms's Way, Convicted ()
August 15, 2009 @ Some Venue in Long Island, NY: Bane, This Is Hell (Rolled for the weekend with Bane. Sold some merch. Rolled up to the venue late and missed most of the bands. Set up merch in this weird back fenced in area. Come night time, it was impossible to see sizes. Poor design. Mikey Raio showed up with amazing bagels with vegan cream cheese. Hung for a bit. Sold merch next to Travis TIH, picked up the record release EP. Hot venue, spent all night selling merch. Lots of small hoods. Blue leopard shirt girl REALLY wanted one but I kept forgetting who she was. D'oh. Rolled out after Bane played, I missed it all minus snatches when the back door opened. Met Chris Albin. Good times.)
August 16, 2009 @ Starlight Ballroom, Philly PA: This Is Hardcore Fest: Bane, Blacklisted, Ceremony, Wisdom in Chains, Trapped Under Ice, Reach The Sky ...(A really long day, very hot, and very long. Great day, no doubt.)
September 19, 2009 @ Club Lido Revere Mass: The Great American Hardcore Fest: Reach The Sky (Rolled up to the ICC first, Ooops. Rolled to Pete & Bedards. Then to the gig. Mostly chilled in the parking lot. Hung with Klint for quite some time. Hit up the Shaws for apples. Klint talked smack on golden delicious, produce kid may have been offended. Their restroom was worse than any truck stop I've ever been to. Rolled back, pretended I was Sweet Pete for the guest list spot. Dude at the door had no idea. Got a bracelet from Nicole Deathwish Inc. Dude grilled me again. Grabbed some merch (M & XL Free Spirit Tee, M & XL Triple B Bane shirt) Hit up the gig for a few tunes. Saw Reach The Sky play 3 songs, then Matty AL4W charged across the crowd and smashed me. I pulled him down with me and landed right on my elbow. Sucky. Broke out. Chilled in the car with JD Shipwreck. Then off to Bertuccis. Good eats.)
September 25, 2009 @ Valentine's Albany NY: Bane, Foundation (Rolled up with Mike, later departure than planned. Hit up Sahara to avoid traffic and eat. Grabbed vegan cupcakes too. Acid reflux from the falafel. Weak. Got to the gig right before Foundation played. Good timing. Ate our vegan cupcakes. Real good, real, real good. Aaron and Stu both enjoyed. Foundation was good, crowd was ehhh. New Bane merch. Grabbed some for me and Justin. 4 tees, 2 crewnecks, 4 EPs, one pair of shorts. Good haul, crazy. Bane played to a small crowd "all we ever need is 75 kids with 10 kids really into it." Played Young and The Restless and "went back in time" to play In Pieces. Kids moshed, a few moshed to the old song. Most kids only knew tracks off The Note. Hung with Nikki, Kara and Erin. Weird running into them in Albany. Told them about Bombers. They enjoyed. Drive home was chill.)
October 16, 2009 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: Pre-Edge Day Gig: Alert (missed), Maintain, Free Spirit, Outrage, Soul Control, Have Heart
October 17, 2009 @ Club Lido Revere Mass: Edge Day Gig: No Tolerance (missed), Waste Management, Rival Mob, Step Forward, Foundation, Cruel Hand, Shipwreck AD, Sweet Pete / In My Eyes, Bane, Have Heart
October 25, 2009 @ Some Bar Western Mass: Alert, Revenge, ..., Bane (Lots of people wanted to roll, but everyone flaked out. Worked out as Dalbec then needed a ride. Weirdo w. mass gig. Alert was awesome, lots of great covers. Next band opened with the spoken word track from Parasitic Skies. Hung with Mitch and Garvey. No water. Club bartender was a douche. Hung with Central Mass Girls Chorus. LOL. Pete Chilton rolled up. Great seeing him, talked with him and Spencer Crispe for quite some time. Mostly about Spencer's un-pos views on Step Forward. NikkiSiv handed out vegan cupcakes to us and Scott Lee. Hell yes. Picked up a tee and ep for Naidoo. Bane was dope. Lots of room to mosh. Played an old ass tune, I moshed. No stage diving, no packed in crowd. Hung after the gig to give Dalbec a ride home. Took forever to get sneakers onto the power line. Chill ride home.)
October 31, 2009 @ Copley Bosotn Mass: Big Event: Ebay Gig
November 20, 2009 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: Rival Mob, Thought Crusade, Free Spirit, Wolf Whistle, Force Fed and Alert (Great gig, lots of hanging with Bourbeau and Sweet Pete. Lots)
December 27, 2009 @ The Palladium Downstairs Worcester, Mass: Bane (Four Year Strong)
December 28, 2009 @ The Palladium Upstairs Worcester, Mass: Reign Supreme, Cruel Hand, Death Before Dishonor, long ass wait, The Cro-Mags
May 01, 2010 @ Crane Room Tufts University Medford, Mass: Hostage Calm, Give, Lion Of Judah, Step Forward, DFJ Cover Band, Rampage (Good day all around. Rolled into Boston to hang with Pete and get food. Plans changed and we went to Cabot's with Plante, Ashley, Crucial John, Steb and Mike. Great crew. Hung out with them all night after that. Crucial John got a call at 630 asking if he was with anyone from Boston who had a PA. Uh oh. Guess their PA fell through. Rolled to the gig with Pete, walked all over campus looking for the gig. Pete had to get some girl to escort us there after we walked around for 15 minutes. Showed up at 730. No PA still Oooooofff. Hostage Calm started at 845. Only 2 hours later than expected. Long show after that. Give played, Lion Of Judah got wacky. Some street punk band played. So weird. Then Step Forward. Great mosh. Pat Flynn sang a COS cover. Mosh. Then DFJ and Co played some cover songs. A little different, wasn't expecting it. Rampage got up next, midnight at this point. They played exactly 3 songs before the cops shut it down. Yuck. Not cool at all. Hung out much longer with Pete at the gig, until Bobby Trucktricks asked us politely to leave as the cops were still hastling him. It was 1am at that point, afterall. Drove home, in bed for 2am. Wheeeeeee)
May 02, 2010 @ The Waterfront Tavern Holyoke, Mass: Set Your Goals, Title Fight, Comeback Kid, (A Loss For Words) (Brought whoopee pies leftover from Bowen's bday. Left from the bday late, and didn't leave Hudson until 630. I texted a few to ask about whoopee pies. Heads were PSYCHED. Sweet Pete, Merrick & his vegan friend, Pike, Kara, ... everyone was stoked. Immediately after handing them out, Title Fight started. Very awesome. Great set. Then I rolled to the ice cream shop, grabbed water, and chatted with Keara, Carrie, Pete, Ned, Rifkin, Gil & his girl. Good times. Matt Wilson rolled up and magically disappeared. CBK played. Then Set Your Goals. Kids were hyped. Lots of stage diving and moshing. Said what up to Hoodrack, grabbed a tee for Naidoo and peaced out. Home for 1130. Drive wasn't bad at all.)
June 05, 2010 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: The Wrongside, Free Spirit, ...
June 17, 2010 @ Underground Skate Club Montreal, QC: Bane, Strike Anywhere, Touche Amore, ... (3 day road trip with Cushman and Pete. Good times. Post gig hang at a sports bar across the street from the club. Coke Zero in glass bottles. Celtics / Lakers game 7 on the big screens. Crappy end but good day)
June 18, 2010 @ Valentines Albany NY: Bane, Strike Anywhere, Touche Amore, ... (hung pre-gig with Naidoo and his lady. Very nice)
June 19, 2010 @ Club Hell Providence RI: Bane, Strike Anywhere, Touche Amore, ... (Hit up Xs To Os before leaving Albany. Blown away by cinammon rolls. Also hit up Lil Anthonys. Blown away again by sandwiches. Before the Providence gig began, Cushman and I scouted out Like No Udder vegan ice cream truck. Damn, sooooo good. Hidden in the pride parade, but we found it).
July 22, 23 2010 @ all over for Sound And Fury 2010 (Boston to Milwaukee -- didn't make it -- to Midway + 18 hours to Nashville to LAX)
July 23 2010 @ Earl Warren Fairgrounds Ventura CA: Sound And Fury: (half of) Outspoken, Strife
July 24 2010 @ Earl Warren Fairgrounds Ventura CA: Sound And Fury: Rotting Out, Terror, Sick Of It All, The Rival Mob, Alpha And Omega, Cold World
July 25-30 2010 @ Mount Desert Island ME: Vacation
July 31 2010 @ New Gloucester ME Surprise 50th bday party for Carolyn
August 11, 2010 @ Universalist Church Wakefield Mass: Title Fight, (Transit Record Release), Daylight
August 12, 2010 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: Bane, (Ceremony, ...)
August 13, 2010 @ Webster Theater Upstairs Hartford CT: Bane, Trapped Under Ice, (Shoot To Kill, Revenge) (Cruel Hand and Alpha And Omega couldn't make it)
August 21, 2010 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: Rival Mob, Mindset, Hands Tied, Get The Most, On, No Tolerance, Free Spirit & Alert (phew)
September 12, 2010 @ The Palladium Upstairs Worcester Mass: Bane, Cruel Hand, Trapped Under Ice, Alpha And Omega
October 02, 2010 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: Triple B Records Showcase: Free Spirit, Thought Crusade, Wolf Whistle, Fire & Ice, Stick Together, Disengage, United Youth, (Rival Mob, Bracewar)
October 03, 2010 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: Triple B Records Showcase: Bane, Cruel Hand, (Rotting Out, Soul Search, Backtrack, Dead End Path, Violent Side)
October 16, 2010 @ Crane Room Tufts Univ Medford Mass: Edge Day (Observed) -- Alert, Step Forward, No Tolerance, Waste Management, (Vaccine) (Long show, but a good one. Spent some time hanging outside with peeps. Ate before hand with Pete at Jumbos)
October 18, 2010 @ Club Hell Providence RI: Strife, Death Before Dishonor, Unsung (Convulsions) (Dope, kicked off with Spikes dogs, hanging outside with Pete, Dee and Corey W.)
December 3, 2010 @ Club Hell Providence RI: H2O, Man Overboard, Unsung, Longshot, Reason To Fight (Dope, kicked off with Nice Slice with a big crew, hanging inside with Seth and fake Seth)
February 12, 2011 @ Crane Room Tufts Medford Mass: The Rival Mob, Free Spirit, Coke Bust, Vaccine, Libyans, Give, (Mob Mentality), Stick Together (Started off right with a trip to Jumbos with Pete, Bedard and Mike. Napalm Death fingers are NOT hot at all. Weak. Unknowingly sat next to Vaccine. Gig was supposed to start promptly at 6pm. No touring bands were around. Stick Together was asked to kick it off at 730. Side By Side cover, lots of mosh. Walk for a drink and clean bathroom, missed Mob Mentality. d'oh. Free Spirit was awesome and the Mob was their usual awesomeness.)
April 01, 2011 @ Canal Club Richmond VA: United Blood
April 02, 2011 @ Canal Club Richmond VA: United Blood
April 14, 2011 @ The Palladium Worcester Mass: Hardcore & Metal Fest (Hit up Belmont Veg. Got a medium. Ate it outside of The Bean Counter. Then hit up Tattoo Project to get honey bee from Will Self. Lots of good edge talk. Did some journal work in the Bean Counter. Hung outside for hours chatting with dudes: Erin, Chedge, DWoods, Rick, Travis, Pete, Garvey, Justin AllInMerch, Mark Viera, ... Never went in. Gave a vegan cookie to Justin. Peaced out.)
April 23, 2011 @ TT The Bears Cambridge Mass: White Wives, Joyce Manor & Lemuria
June 22, 2011 @ The Middle East Cambridge Mass: Bane, Bouncing Souls (Left work at 430, rolled to Somerville to hang with Pete. Hit up Pulse Cafe. Dumb good. Great shakes. Rolled back to Pete's so he could get his car. Hit the club, lots of pouring rain. Found a lucky spot behind Harvest Cafe. Hung with Merrick pre-gig in the restaurant. The line was retarded. Convinced a security dude to let me in. Dope. Solid set. Good mix of old and brand new songs. Got a few solid stage dives off. Security wasn't feeling it, but no barrier. I'm feeling that. While saying goodbyes on stage, security got freaked out. Left before the Souls played. Solid night)
June 23, 2011 @ The Palladium Upstairs Worcester Mass: Dead End Path, The Menzingers, Touche Amore & Title Fight
July 22 @ The Earl Warren Fairgrounds Santa Barbara, CA: Sound And Fury Fest 2011
July 23 @ The Earl Warren Fairgrounds Santa Barbara, CA: Sound And Fury Fest 2011
July 24 @ The Earl Warren Fairgrounds Santa Barbara, CA: Sound And Fury Fest 2011
July 30-August 6 @ Bar Harbor / MDI
August 14 2011 @ The Starlight Ballroom Philly, PA: This Is Hardcore 2011 10:50 til Terror 10:10 - 10:40 Blacklisted 9:20 - 10:00 Strife 8:40 - 9:15 Bane 8:05 - 8:30 Cold World 7:25 - 7:55 Damnation AD 6:45 - 7:15 Pulling Teeth / Hatewaves 6:05 - 6:35 Resurrection 5:20 - 5:55 District 9 4:50 - 5:20 Betrayed 4:10 - 4:40 Maximum Penalty 3:35 - 4:00 Rival Mob 3:05 - 3:25 Bitter End 2:30 - 2:55 Strength For a Reason 2:05 - 2:20 Coke Bust 1:35 - 1:55 Stick Together 1:00 - 1:25 Stout 12:30 - 12:50 Suburban Scum 12:00 - 12:20 Poison Tongues
November 01, 2011 @ Memorial Hospital Worcester, Mass: Drew
November 18, 2011 @ The Palladium (upstairs) Worcester, Mass: Bane, Defeater, Miles Away, Dead End Path, Beshaw's band ... (Rolled up with Mike, got there sort of later than expected. Had to go back to the car to drop off a cookie and starbursts. Security guy was adamant that the Palladium had a "no outside food" policy. Wank. Got in during the end of Miles Away. Missed Dead End Path. Bah. Lots of friends in the house. Pete, AJ, Tom Z, Hudson, Jeremy, Gil, Sam, Thanos, Big Cat, DEP crew, ...). Defeater got a great reaction. Kids were doing lots of singing and dancing. Lots of squished up people. Bane set was one of the best Worcester has seen in a while. Lots of kids going nuts. Big Cat was yelling and losing his mind. Lots of family members in the house. Asked Bedard for Every Effort Made. Got it. Very into it. Broke out and was home before midnight. Not bad!)
December 03, 2011 @ Anchors Up Haverhill Mass: Triple B Records Showcase: Our Side, Clear, Beware, United Youth, Minus, Soul Search, (Stick Together, Free Spirit, Rival Mob)

July 20,21,22 2012 @ Earl Warren Showgrounds Santa Barbara, CA: Sound And Fury 2012

FRIDAY
BANKROBBER BASEMENT COMEBACK KID DISGRACE DOWNPRESSER FOCUSED MINDS HARDSIDE ILL INTENT IVY LEAGUE THE MONGOLOIDS ROTTING OUT SABERTOOTH ZOMBIE SINGLE MOTHERS SUBURBAN SCUM TAKE OFFENSE TOUCHE AMORE XIBALBA
SATURDAY
BANE BENT LIFE BORN LOW CREATURES DONNYBROOK EARTH CRISIS FRIEND OR FOE H2O HARNESS HOLY FEVER MINORITY UNIT NAYSAYER NIGHT BIRDS NOMADS NO TOLERANCE PIECE BY PIECE RETALIATE SOUVENIRS TERROR THE WRONGSIDE
SUNDAY
ALPHA & OMEGA THE BEAUTIFUL ONES BLACK BREATH BLACKLISTED BRAWL BREAK AWAY CEREMONY DEAD END PATH EARLY GRAVES EVERYTHING WENT BLACK FIRE & ICE HARMS WAY HOUR OF THE WOLF MOUNTAIN MAN RIVAL MOB SEAHAVEN SILVER SNAKES TOUGH LUCK XERXES NEW BRIGADE SOUL SEARCH

August 07, 2012 @ The Palladium (Upstairs) Worcester, Mass: (Goodbye Cruel World, Rotting Out), Naysayer, Terror, Bane: missed the first two bands. Eff. Really wanted to see Rotting Out again. Terror killed it, so hard. Bane was great. But it was too hot and thin to get much done. Chilled behind the drumkit for most of the set. Superhero go off. Mitch was there. So was pregnant Bowen and Bowen. Good peeps. Good chatting with Beshaw.
November 30, 2012 @ Anchors Up, Haverhill, Mass: Triple B Showcase: Minus, New Brigade, Beware, Dead End Path, Soul Search, Rude Awakening, Ceremony & Bane
December 01, 2012 @ Anchors Up, Haverhill, Mass: Triple B Showcase: (Ancient Heads, Intent, Friend Or Foe, Wolf Whistle, Our Side, Clear, United Youth, Give), Fire & Ice, Free Spirit, Stick Together, Step Forward, Shipwreck AD, In My Eyes Showed up pretty late, 6pm just in time to see Fire & Ice.
February 09, 2013 @ Smog Shoppe Los Angeles, CA: #nicoleandjoey
May 18, 2013 @ Webster Hall New York City, NY: Bane, Black Train Jack, Judge (What a freakin day. Drove Dalbec and Jennifer. Realized I forgot my ticket as I pulled up to the curb. Didn't eat ANYTHING. Oooof)
July 26, 2013 @ Cambridge Elks Lodge Cambridge, Mass: Mindset, Caught In A Crowd, Zero Progress, Sweet Jesus, Bad Idea(?), Big Contest (Worst PA system. Yikes. Big Contest was rad.)
September 15, 2013 @ President's Rock Club Quincy Mass: Test Of Time (Record Release), Bane, Caught In A Crowd, Violence To Fade, Intent
December 07, 2013 @ President's Rock Club Quincy Mass: Triple B Records Fest: Bane, Stick Together, Disengage, Beware, Intent, Thought Crusade, New Brigade, Demolition, Big Contest, Zoom, Unified Right
January 11, 2014 @ President's Rock Club Quincy Mass: Bane Don't Wait Up Backups (Road out with Cushman and Big Bob. Traded gear with Naidoo. Lots of heads. Good times.)
May 09, 2014 @ The Palladium Upstairs, Worcester Mass: Bane, Turnstile, Rude Awakening, Caught In A Crowd, Test Of Time (Added 2024-05-09 courtesy of a Google Pics flashback!)
June 22, 2014 @ Middle East (Upstairs) Cambridge Mass: Bane, Cruel Hand, Sweet Jesus (During Bane, some dude kept grabbing the mic -- he gave a speech during Cruel Hand too. Zach told him he was ruining the show. There was a discussion and Zach said, "punch me in the face and see what happens." So the dude punched him in the face. Of course.)
September 20, 2014 @ Port City Music Hall Portland, ME: Cruel Hand (record release), Bane, DNA, (Too Hero Too Fall, Battery Steele) (Rolled down with Cushman. Ate good food all over Portland, coffee too. Weird gig. Barrier 8+ feet from stage with bouncers in it. Weird. Bane was great. Cruel Hand ripped it up. Mikey Raio, Kristen Canada, Bruce King)
December 07, 2014 @ Hardcore Stadium (Elks Lodge Downstairs) Cambridge, Mass: Bane, Our Side, Angel Dust, Soul Search, United Right, Violence To Fade (Take Control, Rude Awakening) (Excellent night)
March 27, 2015 @ Simon's 677 Providence RI: Bane, Backtrack, Malfunction, ... Lines Drawn (Late gig, post Melissa's YAC event in Waltham. Hung with Kristin, Bedard, Katie, James and Dalbec. Later Erika and Kale. Long night. Lots of singing along for Bane, barely any movement though)
April 10, 2015 @ 924 Gilman St Berkley, CA: Bane, Backtrack, Malfunction, ... (Great gig during a cali vacation. Naidoo, Kristin, Big Bob, Rich G, Casey, Jose Galvan)
April 24, 2015 @ Brighton Music Hall, Brighton Mass: Bane, Backtrack, Malfunction, ...
July 25, 2015 @ The Electric Factory Philadelphia PA: This Is Hardcore: Bane, Reach The Sky (Turnstile, Killing Time, Jerry Only Misfits)
August 07, 2015 @ The Waterfront Tavern Holyoke Mass: Life & Death Tour: Bane, Backtrack, Turnstile (Terror and Heavy Chains dropped) (Rolled out late with Mike and Julie. Long drive. Hung with Mr. and Mrs Naidoo)
October 17, 2015 @ Hardcore Stadium Cambridge Mass: Edge Day: Iron Edge, Mindset, Invasion, Stop And Think (sloppiest version of p salt stomp ever?)
December 05, 2015 @ The Middle East Upstairs Cambridge Mass: America's Hardcore Fest: Freedom, Lock, Red Death, Intent, Big Contest, Clear (Barge, Wild Side)
January 02, 2016 @ The Espesso Bar / Club Oasis, Worcester Mass: Bane, Dive, Reach The Sky, Caught In A Crowd, Free (Whoa, awesome night. Cushman, AJ, Big Bob, Naidoo, Nicole, Raio, Tom Z, Andrew Truss, Chris D, Jeremy, Eyebrow, Hudson, Beshaw, Peteshaw, Sal, Pete, Carla, Nick, Stu, Jim C, Stu, Tre, ... 34 John was represented well.)
January 03, 2016 @ The Espesso Bar / Club Oasis, Worcester Mass: Bane, Down To Nothing, Dive, (Mountain Man, Labeled) (Whoa, awesome night x2. Cushman and I rolled. Busted head in DTN set lead to the retelling of an amazing and nws tour story. Such a good one. Bane set was fun. In Pieces. Great dives from Clean Chris and Link. David and Jarred DTN too.)
April 20, 2016 @ Local 662 St Petersburg FL: Bane, Burn, Down To Nothing, Faze ...
April 21, 2016 @ The Dollhouse Savannah GA: Bane, Down To Nothing, ...
April 22, 2016 @ The Masquearade Atlanta GA: Bane, Down To Nothing, ...
April 23, 2016 @ The High Pont Birmingham AL: Bane, Down To Nothing, Mental State
April 24, 2016 @ The End Nashville TN: Bane, Down To Nothing, Mental Collapse... (Every Effort Made was learned before the set and then played. Bedard came through on that promise. Stoked)
May 08, 2016 @ The Webster Hall, Marlin Room New York, NY: Bane, Backtrack, Maximum Penalty, Malfunction, (Manipulate) (Rolled down with Mike on Mother's Day. Ate at Terri's, good eats. Some kid ate absolute shit during Backtrack's last song and was carried out. Bane set was fantastic. So much energy plus Every Effort Made. Chiltons, Storch, E Mitch, Amanda P, Big Bob, Naidoo and Nicole, 2 dudes from Tampa!! Morgado, Beshaw, Lou The Genius. Great night.)
June 09, 2016 @ The Sinclair, Cambridge Mass: Pity Sex, PWR BTTM, Petal (Solo mission. Got dinner at Clover beforehand. Talked about the Pacific Northwest. Dark venue. Petal was fun. PWR BTTM was serious fun, very anthemic and funny. Pity Sex was chill. Great gig.)
June 17, 2016 @ The Palladium, Worcester Mass: Final Bane Gig: Bane, Ceremony, Modern Life Is War, Defeater, The Promise, Right Bridage
June 18, 2016 @ The Palladium, Worcester Mass: Final Bane Gig: Bane, Saves The Day, Right Bridage, The Promise, Cruel Hand (Rude Awakening)
October 22, 2016 @ Hardcore Stadium, Cambridge Mass: Edge Day 2016: Murphy's Law, Floorpunch, Search, Ancient Heads, No Tolerance, Iron Edge, Waste Management, Take Control
February 27, 2017 @ Tel Aviv ER, Tel Aviv, Israel: 103.1 Temp
March 13-14, 2017 @ Hyatt Regency San Francisco, CA: SRECON_ Americas 2017
March 23-30, 2017 @ Orlando, FL: Disney World
May 12, 2017 @ Hardcore Stadium Cambridge Mass: Burn, Streetsweeper (Ache, Vantage Point)
October 19, 2017 @ Spotify Somerville Mass: Tigers Jaw
October 21, 2017 @ Cambridge Elks Logde, Mass: Edge Day Observed: Violence To Fade, Break Away, Blind Justice, Regulate, Cutting Through, Maniac, Vantage Point
March 27-28, 2018 @ Santa Clara, CA: SRECon Americas
April 13-16, 2018 @ London England: Tourist stuff, met up with Marcus Andrews and Anna
April 16-21, 2018 @ L'viv Ukraine: Work stuff, popover in Warsaw Poland airport
May 10-14, 2018 @ London England: More touristry stuff. This time with Melissa. Stop at Reykjavik Iceland airport.
June 6, 2018 @ the Middle East (upstairs), Cambridge, Mass: Ecostrike, Magnitude, Search For Purpose, Vantage Point, Antagonize (first gig)
July 13-20, 2018 @ Bangalore, India: Work Trip
July 21, 2018 @ Amsterdam, Netherlands: Quick trip to the city during a layover
July 26, 2018 @ Art Freek, Providence RI: Bug Light tattoo from Mike
July 27, 2018 @ Hardcore Stadium, Cambridge, Mass: Fiddlehead (record release), Lilith, Mil-Spec (Pat called me out on my Ricktalife flea market)
September 08, 2018 @ Boston Logan Airport, Mass: Goodbye USA
September 09, 2018 @ Stansted Airport, London UK: Hello UK
September 17, 2018 @ Old Spitafields Market, London UK: Hanging with Adam Malik and Geert Hollanders
October 30, 2018 @ The Underground Camden, London UK: The Slackers (20th anniversary of an album, played start to finish. I left early)
November 02, 2018 @ The Underground Camden, London UK: Trail Of Lies, Sworn Enemy (15th anniversary of Sworn Enemy album, played start to finish, I left early)
November 04, 2018 @ Gatwick Airport, London UK: Drew and Melissa arrive
December 03, 2018 @ The Underground Camden, London UK: Backtrack, Deez Nuts, Terror (Solid gig. Good dives for Terror. Good to see Linkovich)
December 08, 2018 @ London UK: Hanging with Ki Seok
February 28, 2019 @ Dr Marten's Boot Store, Camden, London UK: Culture Abuse (Free gig. Venue holds 65 people. I was 200 in line. I went home without getting in.)
May 17, 2019 @ Munich DE: GR Weekend Away
June 10, 2019 @ San Jose, CA: O'Reilly Velocity Conf 2019
June 10, 2019 @ San Jose, CA: WWE: Monday Night Raw (Was in town for a nerd conference. Our hotel lobby was full of WWE roadies. Got in touch with Brian F, and he was stoked. He hooked us up with tickets, and after a long time of hanging around the on-call line, we got tickets and went in. It was a blast.)
June 29, 2019 @ Olympic Stadium, London UK: Red Sox vs Yankees (Drew's first baseball game)
July 02, 2019 @ Electric Brixton, London Uk: La Dispute, Milk Teeth, Petrol Girls (I didn't realize how big La Dispute was until now. They are a big band. I hate at Halo Burgers before the gig. I spent most of the night on a stool to the side of the stage, a good vantage point. I watched a drunk guy drop his phone and his case blew off with his bank card. He walked off. I had someone hand it to me, and when he came back through, I tried to hand it to him. He didn't notice. I gave it to his friend. He didn't notice. He was too busy "singing along" to the "brand new song." Whoops. La Dispute was fun. It was cool to watch them from the balcony. Late night for a school night.)
July 06, 2019 @ Tacoma, WA: Cushman Wedding
August 17, 2019 @ Griffin Park Brentford UK: Brentford vs Hull City (Rolled with Jim, met a COO named Jim, sloppy match, but draw in the end, 1-1)
August 24, 2019 @ Ealing Trailfinders, Ealing UK: Ealing Trailfinders vs Bishop's Stortford (solo mission, Ealing walloped em)
September 01, 2019 @ New Cross Inn, London UK: Glitterer, Stages In Faith, Lapyear, Marigolds, (JK Historian) (Solo mission, way out there. Fun gig, spent time talking to Ned, good catching up. The bands were fun. I really enjoyed Marigolds, even with a replacement bassist and a missing female singer. The guitar player did a great job. Ned was great. He really gave it. I wasn't sure what was going to happen, but he did a great job. Someone asked me about my Bane hoodie and we talked core for a few. Into it. I grabbed a fun white tee. And then the long ride home.)
September 21, 2019 @ Griffin Park Brentford UK: Brentford vs Stoke City (Rolled with the family, sloppy officiating, very anti-Brentford, but draw in the end, 0-0)
September 27, 2019 @ The Dome, Tuffnel Park, London UK: Judge, Firm Standing Law, Tied Down, Mastermind (Fun little gig. Lots of people to catch up with. Marcus got my extra ticket. Met Ross H in person. Adam, Beau Brady - post tattoo convention -, talked to Dan from Cold World, plus many more. Tied Down was great, very much a Boston Slapshot vibe. Firm Standing Law was fun but chill. Judge was entertaining. One or two goose bump moments, but mainly just watching from the side. I met up with Peter Sz after the gig. He lives right up the hill. He's well)
October 01, 2019 @ The Convention Centre Dublin, Dublin Ireland: SRECon EMEA 2019 (I spoke, it was fun)
November 03, 2019 @ The Dome, Tuffnel Park, London UK: Youth Of Today, Realm Of Torment
November 04, 2019 @ The Dome, Tuffnel Park, London UK: Shelter, The Geeks, Vision Quest
November 18, 2019 @ The Underworld, Camden, London UK: Hot Water Music, Spanish Love Songs, Red City Radio (Fun night out with Melissa. Dinner at What the Pitta was silly. Hung with Gijs for a bit. Hot Water Music was fun. A late night, but super fun.)
November 30, 2019 @ Griffin Park Brentford UK: Brentford vs Luton Town (Rolled with Pete, Nico and Drew. Missed the first Brentford goal. Watched three ridiculous dribble in goals where the goalie straight up moved in slow motion, and then one amazing well placed goal. Left at the half at 5-0 as it was too loud for Nico. Rode the bus with two Luton Town fans. We felt bad for them. 7-0 final. Wow)
February 08, 2020 @ Griffin Park Brentford UK: Brentford vs Middlesbrough (Great game. Drew and I went. Fun was had by all)
February 15 2020 @ O2 Academy Kentish Town, London UK: The Menzingers, Spanish Love Songs, Mannequin Pussy (Fun night out with Melissa. Dinner at Purezza. Great show. There was a triple stack shoulder ride during the Menzingers. They played all the hits. It was super fun.)
March 13, 2020 @ Ealing London UK: WFH Begins
March 23, 2020 @ Ealing London UK: Lockdown Begins
October 09, 2020 @ Ealing London UK: Drove on the wrong ... other side of the road
October 12, 2020 @ Swindon London UK: Passed the DVSA Theory test
December 19, 2020 @ Boston, Mass, USA: Hello Logan
June 01, 2021 @ Bristol, UK: Hello Peter
June 03, 2021 @ Bath, UK: Hello Romans
July 23, 2021 @ Heathrow London, UK: Goodbye London
July 23, 2021 @ Boston, MA, USA: Hello USA
October 10, 2021 @ Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, NH, USA: Frank Turner, Laura Jane Grace, Nathon Gray (rolled with Melissa, dinner out and an amazing show. Sadly, two medical emergencies and a dickhead caused 3 songs to be broken into. But that meant Thunder Road and Bat Out Of Hell were played)
October 16, 2021 @ The Palladium, Worcester, MA, USA: The Menzingers, The Worriers, The Dirty Nils (solo mission. I wish they had played upstairs.)
February 18, 2022 @ The Middle East Boston, MA, USA: C4, Big Contest, Mil-Spec, (Skourge, Illusion) (Doors were at 7pm. But were pushed back at the last minute. Spent a lot of time talking to the Bourbeaus. Glitterer canceled last minute too. Booo. Talked with Greg and AJ, got philosophical)
March 03, 2022 @ Washington DC, USA: Hello Capital!
March 11, 2022 @ Albany, NY, USA: Hello State Capital!
April 18-22, 2022 @ Jay Peak Resort, Jay, VT, USA: Winter & Waterpark holiday
May 22, 2022 @ The Wellness Center, Worcester State University, Worcester, Mass, USA: VegFest 2022 (12) (Volunteered!)
June 17, 2022 @ Roadrunner Boston MA: Frank Turner, Avail, The Bronx, Pet Needs (An amazing night. Melissa and I rolled out and enjoyed it. Somehow, I was the only one losing their mind to early Avail)
July 18-22, 2022 @ The Hayes Mansion, SJC, CA: Work Offsite
July 23, 2022 @ Ralph's Worcester, MA: Silent Drive (record release), Rebuilder (a great gig, so many friends going back 20+ years)
October 17-19, 2022 @ Javits Center, NYC, NY: Dash 2022
November 02, 03, 2022 @ etc.venues, NYC, NY: ObservabilityCon 2022
November 06, 2022 @ DCU Center, Worcester, MA: Railers vs Admirals
November 20, 2022 @ Roadrunner Boston MA: Turnstile, Snail Mail, Fiddlehead (Good times, solo mission. Ran into Carrie, Nicole VH, Wheelz, Greg Lockinout, Dave Murphy, BM(ahoney). Fiddlehead was fun, a solid treat, minus the barrier. Turnstile was fun. The rocking songs people got into and sand & danced. A fun night)
May 7, 2023 @ MGM Music Hall, Boston MA: Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls, The Interrupters (A wonderful show. The Interrupters play the same song over and over again, real weird. Frank Turner was awesome as usual)
June 17, 2023 @ Roadrunner Boston, MA: Bane, Suicide File, Stick To Your Guns, Killing Time, Bracewar, (COA) (first Bane reunion show. Packed)
June 18, 2023 @ Roadrunner Boston, MA: Bane, Suicide File, Stick To Your Guns, Killing Time, Bracewar, COA (returntothepit.com pics)
July 01, 2023 @ Sebago Lake State Park, Casco, ME: Hello Lake
August 06, 2023 @ Button Bay State Park, Vergeness VT: Hello VT
September 12, 2023 @ Heathrow Airport, Hounslow, UK: Hello UK
September 15, 2023 @ Everyman Canary Wharf, London, UK: SREDay 2023
September 17, 2023 @ Logan Airport, Boston, MA: Hello USA
September 22, 2023 @ Roadrunner, Boston, MA: Tegan & Sara (incredible gig. Great music, funny stand-up like banter. Lovely)
October 24-28, 2023 @ Raleigh, NC: Work trip
November 21, 2023 @ Roadrunner, Boston, MA: Liz Phair (Exile in Guyville 30th anniversary, front to back, incredible gig. Great music. Lovely)
March 11, 2024 @ TD Garden, Boston, MA: Bruins vs The Blues (Big los, 5-1. Went with Grafana Labs team)
April 06, 2024 @ The Met, Pawtucket, RI: Shelter, Civ (COA, Anklebiter, What Counts) (Cool gig. Did dinner before with Pete. Rolled up at 9am, right before Civ played. Well timed. Ran into a few folks. Later learned way more were there. Missed them.)
July 11, 2024 @ Sydney International Airport, Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hello Australia
August 01, 2024 @ Boston Logan Airport, Boston MA: Hello USA
August 24, 2024 @ Beach Boardwalk, Salisbury MA: Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls, Matt Pond MA (Free gig at the beach boardwalk. Very weird vibes, but a great show. And no one passed out this time)
September 22, 2024 @The Palladium, Worcester, MA: (Hardcore and) Metal Fest: Bane, (Suicide Silence), Terror
September 23, 2024 @ Convene, New York City, NY: ObservabilityCon
October 13, 2024 @ The Met, Pawtucket RI: Bane, Terror, (others) (A Tom Z gig. Dinner with Pete and Cushman. Showed up as Terror was setting up. Great set. Got popped in the jaw during Bane's first song, Fuck What You Heard, and I couldn't close my mouth for days. Fuck you, hard mosher. Lots of people in attendance. And finally, 6 years later, I got my Bane decks)

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