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.

Lunchbox Anniversary Part: 1.5

The Fucked Up in-store could not have ended up any better. Everything got moved super duper early, so when the band got there we were already moving stuff and we didn't look like douche bags. While everyone else ate lunch, Damian hung out at the store and bought every Antiseen related record we had, and then bought a bunch of stuff that was way out of left field.
A ton of people ended up coming, though not too many, which I was kind of worried about. The show went off without a problem, the band played for a long time, and did a few covers, and then they played a KBD song really poorly with damian playing drums and the drummer playing guitar. It was awesome.
Dan Smith moshed and I wanted to punch him except it was the most happy I've seen him in ages, and one of the only times I've seen him really get into a band in a long time.



I'd never really paid attention to the drumming on the records, but holy shit is he good in person



They had a bunch of stuff with them, and ended up parking their giant ass van on the grass in front of the store. Josh also did a long-ass interview with a few of the guys in the band that included questions about axle rose, who they voted for, slumberland records, and minor threat.

Lunchbox Party: Part 1

The Graf Orlock, Lewd Acts, Lowbrow show on Friday went really really well. over 100 people ended up showing up, and so many people payed that we ended up being able to give the local band some money (normally 100% of the door money is given to people on tour, the store and locals never take a cut).

Lowbrow played the best set I've seen them play. A bunch of the songs I didn't like were cut out, and the new songs are way longer and more intense. Brandon is getting better and better as a front man every show. I didn't get any pcitures of them because I was too busy explaining that gas isn't free to kids trying to sneak in behind other people.

Graf Orlock was super duper fast and the samples were just as over the top as I hoped they would be. They played a pretty great set, and played the only song that I really wanted to hear (the jurassic park one) and people seemed to be really into them


mosh

Apparently Levi really likes this band


Lewd Acts were the band most people were there to se (I guess?). I've never been to crazy about this band, and the crowd I've seen them attract aren't the people that I share a lot in common with, but this band put on an awesome show. the singer is just relentless and the bass player is great to watch, plus he plays really really well.




I liked Lewd Acts enough that I bought their new 7", which isn't nearly as good as their live show, or the socialcide lp I got the same day. The first day of the Lunchbox Records 3 year anniversary ended really well, except that we spent so fucking long moving the shelves that the show ended up starting a little late, but it was no big deal.

More Pictures from Day One

Fucked Up in-store and other anniversary stuff

FREE IN-STORE THIS SATURDAY PLUS AWESOME SHOWS THIS WEEKEND!

Des_Ark at Lunchbox

Show was booked super duper last minute, and not promoted at all, but there were still more than 50 people there, and the two out of town bands got paid well, which rules.
Honestly, I spent almost the whole night on the stool because my leg was all fucked from surgery, so I just took pictures of people






Des_Ark

Bukake Boys/Logic Problem

Let's just start this out by saying I was really excited to see American Cheeseburger, and when they cancelled I was kind of bummed on the show. Not because I didn't want to see Logic Problem or Bukake Boys, but because this whole thing was put together because American Cheeseburger asked to come up and I was super pumped to see them. Shit happens.
Logic Problem opened, and was brutal.

Seth got fucked up playing drums. He played the best set I've seen him play; I think it might also be the first set I've seen him play on his drums


Bukake Boys were wayyy better than I thought they were going to be. Probably the best all around hardcore band that I've seen since the end of year show.


dan is a super punk because he came straight from work and took food from there to eat while seeing bukake boys