Rosemont Apartment Show

This was the first show for Meth Mountain and the first punk show for the rosemont apartments. The place holds insane parties every year for 4th of July and New Years. They're pretty infamous for their slip'n'slides, volcanoes, and colorful alcoholic beverages, so I was pumped to see what a show would be like at the place.
It ended up being really fun, after Meth Mountain and Grids played, Logic Problem "set up", which really consisted of changing out cymbals and cables. The place was so fucking packed and tiny that changing out stuff just wasn't practical, and Grids' somewhat big cabinets ended up looking like a wall of amps.

Logic Problem played really fast, and WAY better than they have the last two times in charlotte. I didn't know that bands from Raleigh ever took their time to come down to our struggling little city, but they've put on a fantastic show every time, and every time people have partied out for them.





Lowbrow just keeps getting better. The intro was a little too long for me, but that was probably because I found 2 sunkist in my bag right before they played, and was way wired on orange soda caffeine.




Show ruled, new place rules, Brandon rules for setting this up, Zach, Steven, and everyone else that live there rule for not caring about their crazy apartment parties, and everyone there ruled for coming out.
Charlotte has shows...

Hawks, Grids, Reverser

I was super excited about this show, then was a little bummed that there weren't infinity people there, but the turnout was decent and Hawks got paid.
Reverser played first, and given it was only their second show I was really impressed, but then remembered they'd been practicing for like, a year, and was still mildly impressed. I would say there was too much 90's worship, except that they are all over 30 so it's less worship and more rekindling.


Hawks is fucking phenomenal. I don't think I'll ever get enough of this band. Band rules, record rules, live rules, dudes rule(s). Grids is playing three dates with them and Thank God in April and I"m getting excited about it already.
It was hard to get good pictures of them because we turned out all the store lights, but whatever. you get the point.

levi has a glow stick mustache




as for the Grids set, we played probably the sloppiest set we've ever played, my amp was sounding like farts and shorting out, the new bass cabinet sounded awesome, and because bobby likes Hawks as much as I do, he was completely obliterated, as is obvious here:


more pictures from this show can be found here:
Penalty Box Flickr

also, the house now has this:

Awesome show THIS TUESDAY!

tuesday night at the lunchbox recordz.



GRIDS
HAWKS
REVERSER


just a reminder, I know everyone will be there....

Insurgence Fest

I'm going to try to stay away from using this as a personal blog, but this is almost bordering on it...
So Grids and Obstruction headed up to Conover to play Insurgence Fest. Luke from Gut Fux decided to do an all day thing with all of the bands Robby liked in memorial of his death a few weeks ago.
The show was kind of a bust, but we showed up super late when everyone was already passed out or off in the woods fucking. Planet Piss had an outrageous set, but other than that I didn't really see any bands, we were busy exploring.

Really the only reason I'm making this post is because after the show everyone ate at waffle house and got way sick. It started when Joe said "if you throw up, I'm going to throw up" to josh, which instigated him to throw up. Then Joe threw up all over the side of the van going 70:

which caused Rick to throw up all over the side of the van going 70:


Then we pulled over and everyone just threw up everywhere. puke fest '09



It was a stupid night.

Also, Hawks is playing here next week and they put out, hands down, the most impressive record I've heard this year.

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.