UNCC Show and the afterparty

Charlotte's local punk and hardcore scene is fun right now. Lowbrow is getting better and better, lots of shitty bands seem to have disappeared, Planet Piss is finally starting to make people smile, every band I'm in is either burning out or playing too many shows, and Nick from Logic Problem finally convinced his band to play here (3 times in the same year!).
The UNCC 318 shows are always weird, and always super hit-or-miss, so I was kind of worried about this, but even if it's super shitty it doesn't really matter to anyone because the shows are always free and there is always free food.
The food this time kind of sucked, but I showed up with a burrito, so it wasn't a big deal to me.

Lowbrow played a little earlier than I think most people thought it would start (because lots of posters said 8, and lots said 7) but they still are awesome. The sound at the place was weird and kind of shitty when you were playing, but this kind of added to their songs. Just sloppy enough to sound good.


Logic Problem is still phenomenal. They played a lot better at UNCC than they did at Lunchbox with Bukake Boys, except seth who I think might have been dying. Pretty sure he threw up everywhere.




Planet Piss was great again. I really think if they recorded into a boombox or through a shit-filter and sent it to Hozac or In the Red they could be hot shit. Maybe bloggers will get ahold of their demo recorded on a mac-laptop-mic and flip their shit...

hey look it's that elitist douche-rod



So the show went well enough, the party afterwards was just absurd. I don't know how it happened, but a cat ended up wandering into our house, eating our food, and tried to drink someone's beer. Hey, he was just like all the other assholes that show up every night except much cuter. we dubbed him party cat, and he went home with some of our friends.



Joe got seriously bummed when I said we couldn't keep party cat. Then we argued about how I could be vegan and not really be an animal person.

then this happened

When it got to this point, I decided it was time to go to bed.

Lunchbox Records Party: Part 2. Fucked Up

This is like, a whole week late, but here are the pictures from the Fucked Up show at the Milestone.
I showed up just in time to see Planet Piss play, which is always a nice surprise, because I feel like flipper will never play Charlotte even though they said they would...
Steven wrapped himself in toilet paper, which lasted for about half a song, when he was dressed in just his underwear, like normal.


Grids played, but it's hard to take pictures while you're playing guitar (no matter how poorly you play) so I don't have any pictures of that. Steven took some, and if you dig I'm sure you can find them.
Double Negative is THE BEST band in North Carolina. There is no question in my mind that they will never put out something bad, or play a show that I don't enjoy. They played flawlessly, every guitar solo was insane, the drums and bass were driving, and the crowd went nuts.


Gregg Ginn eat your heart out





I didn't take many pictures, but the most out of control I've seen The Milestone get was during Fucked Up. I'm pretty sure I'll never see that many people crawling on top of each other at the ghetto fortress ever again. This was the best Fucked Up set I've ever seen. The set at The Old Blue Last in London was pretty great, but the song choices were perfect, the three guitar thing actually worked, and the sound was perfect.



as always, more pictures are HERE and I have a bunch more on my computer if you really are in dire need of some picture of you moshing or something.