The show went pretty well. As our practice the week before was a little on the rough side, I was expecting it might go that way, but our playing at least exceeded the one practice we'd had. The other bands seemed genuinely into us so that's pretty cool. Setlist:
Death Blow
Visitant
Fall Behind
Battle Chant
A Series of False Starts
Lost Year
It'd been forever since we'd played at Murphy's. I was surprised the bartender still seemed into us after all these years. He's still super-nice too, of course. We played first. After us was Strengths and they were incredible. Pretty heavy mathy stuff. 2/3 were in Whose Army? and I think they were better than their previous band. Well, the previous band was hit-or-miss and while the stuff that hit was more up my alley than what Strengths does, Strengths were always on and they just nailed that shit. It was my first time to see them. It was my second time to see Vanishing Islands and I think liked them better this time (I liked them the last time too). Oh, and with technology as wonderful and fine as it is, here's the show!:
Death Blow
Visitant
Fall Behind
Battle Chant
A Series of False Starts
Lost Year
It'd been forever since we'd played at Murphy's. I was surprised the bartender still seemed into us after all these years. He's still super-nice too, of course. We played first. After us was Strengths and they were incredible. Pretty heavy mathy stuff. 2/3 were in Whose Army? and I think they were better than their previous band. Well, the previous band was hit-or-miss and while the stuff that hit was more up my alley than what Strengths does, Strengths were always on and they just nailed that shit. It was my first time to see them. It was my second time to see Vanishing Islands and I think liked them better this time (I liked them the last time too). Oh, and with technology as wonderful and fine as it is, here's the show!: