Well, it's been a while. School is finished[already? four months of summer? sweeeet] and i'm two weeks removed from the last show of the first season[can I call it that?] of Rock The Walls.
For some reason I have said been saying rock the walls IS as opposed to I. Rock The Walls is a one man crew/team, but I still act as if there is a crew of 3-4 people going with me to each show for a interview,etc. haha.
ANYWAYS....
On to the important stuff.
The interview with Andrew Everding[Keyboards, Vocals] of Thursday and a surprise interview with Matt Kean[Bassist] Bring Me The Horizon went well. I played them on my last show, but I'll hopefully have the individual files up in the next few hours for listening pleasure.
Taste of Chaos itself was pretty good. I'll give a little rundown of exactly what I thought from Openers to Headliners..
Four Year Strong: The rotation of the 3 opening bands[Cancer Bats, Pierce The Veil, Four Year Strong] saw FYS up first. Having seen these guys several times i anticipated two things:
1)Awesome performance
2)Rough Pit
Having seen 2 kids knocked out, a person jump off of speakers 40feet high into a crowd and several bloody noses, I expected it to get rough. However, the pit was pretty tame, and for the most part the crowd was pretty retarded. I don't think they really understood what a breakdown was as far as the pit' went. Kids would start moshing at random times.
Retards aside, Four Year Strong put on, as always a great show. They seemed to play the most songs out of the 4 bands leading up to thursday which was surprising. They played pretty well every song from Rise or Die Trying, with the exception of "If he's here, who's runnin hell?" and "Wrecked'em? Damn near killed'em"
The highlight of this set for me would have had to been the Breakdown in Beatdown In The Key of Happy. Just as they were about to start the breakdown they go into the fucking breakdown of raining blood! Pretty sweet.
Pierce The Veil: I've already voiced my opinion on these guys on air... I didn't really get why they were on this tour. Guess they were for the scenie boppers who were there for oli sykes. These guys weren't particularly my favourite band to say the least.. And wouldn't you know it. Half way through their set the beat to Lil' Wayne's "lollipop" comes on. they all lift up there guitars and WOW! On the three guitars each has a word! First one, PARTY Second MOTHER third FUCKERS! Another "neon" group?! How am I not shocked?! The end of their set they played a cover of MJ's Beat It, which wasn't too bad due to the singer's high pitched voice.
Cancer Bats: A homecoming for the Cancer Bats on the second-to-last stop on TOC, I have never been a die-hard fan of these guys but always liked them. Holy geez. They teared shit up and then some. The crowd was rowdy and their performance saw guest appearances by George and Wade of Alexisonfire! Pretty sweet. Then the great guy who I interviewed, Andrew of Thursday came out for Hail Destoryer to add some screams to it. Awesome performance.
Bring Me The Horzion: Judging by the number of "I partied Naked With Bring Me The Horizon" shirts I saw in the crowd, I'd say most people had been waiting all night for these guys. They came out to their first single on their new album Suicide Season and a song I've played quite a bit on the show due to their performance was also coming up on April 14th at L3, The Comedown.
The pit opened up wider then it had all night, as fellow Oli Sykes admirers clinched on for dear life at the front. Throughout the very short set[considering the band was directly supporting Thursday.]They only played 5 songs. I would say this is probably due large part of one of their guitarist, Curtis Ward leaving the band midtour. They had to throw in their guitar tech, who i am told only knows songs off the new record.
BMTH went through other popular songs on the new album such as Football Season Is Over, The Sadness Will Never End (Feat. Vic from Pierce The Veil), Diamonds Aren't Forever and closed with Chelsea Smile. As the band went offstage, fans started to chant for a encore.
Having seen BMTH on Warped Tour 2008 in California before Four Year Strong played on several dates, their live show has greatly improved. Back in August all you could hear was Oli screaming and double bass.
Thursday: after BMTH, I couldn't believe my eyes. More than half the venue cleared right out. I was shocked. It was just really sad to realize what the scene has come to. How could more then half these kids leave before Thursday, a band that will be talked about well after bands like Pierce The Veil and Bring Me The Horizon disappear, like they were some fucking shitty local band? All those kids would miss out, that's for sure.
One of the most legendary post-hardcore bands, Thursday blew my mind away. Near the end of the set, they began to take requests from people in the crowd, as if it was a small, 100-200 people, intimate show as opposed to 3,000-5,000 capacity Kool Haus. The setlist (off of the top of my head looked something like this:
1) At This Velocity
2) Resuscitation
3) Understanding
4) Counting 5-4-3-2-1
5) Friends In The Armed Forces
6) Beyond The Visible
7) Signals
8) Workforce
9) Circuits
10) Jet Black
11) Dark MountainHere
12) War All The Time
Great set, was absolutely blown away. I really hope some kids got into these guys because of that performance, because those guys deserve it.
Overall Taste of Chaos minus PTV was a pretty good show. I'd have to give it a 8/10.
STAY TUNED FOR THURSDAY AND BRING ME THE HORIZON INTERVIEWS
Skankin' and Moshing away,
Patrick
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