Monday, June 23, 2008

upcoming shows

likely shows to attend:

june 28 1916 I ave national city 6pm graveyard drifters, el hombre lobo, apathetic youth, la raza pura, modern aggression, reset status

mon june 30 san diego fair (del mar) wierd al (concert free with admission)

jul 11 8pm 6116 brooklyn ave infitada, abrade, liberate, the americans, abject

july 13 King's music (3592 Main St. Lemon Grove ) social sickness, X-Communicated, the Imposters, Gross Negligence and Boneless

jul 17 o'connells bar murphys law

jul 22 House of blues jesse lacey

7/23 The Maac ( 1385 3rd Ave., Chula Vista) Furious styles, kids like us, mongloids, life or death, wages of war

july 24 6116 brooklyn ave 8pm annihilation time, mother speed, SBV, broken patterns (ex tear it up), titanarum

july 25 the ergs, hunchback, vena cava

july 31 KIMBARA (530 calle 8 between avenidas pio pico and quintana Roo Zona Centro) spanish bombs, Shipwrek AD, Red Awakening, A Better Hope Foundation, MYPAQ

aug 7 canes agent orange

sep 19 soma Rancid

Sunday, June 22, 2008

seasick, ANS @ brooklyn ave encanto

So I drove 10 minutes to Encanto, San Diego, also known as one of the most "hood" sections of san diego. Driving through on an earlier date, my roommate and I saw a drugpin getting taken down by the cops (during the day).

So i drove up to the house: 6116 Brooklyn Ave aka the brooklyn bazaare, aka the ninja lair. a few kids are there, just hanging around in the driveway drinking. a cop was 2 houses up and paid no mind to the gathering of white kids and hispanic kids in the hood.

Find out that while the show is at the house, the bands actually play on the back porch of the house, with the PA speakers pointing directly at the next house, across the driveway, a distance of 10 feet at most. you stand in the driveway and watch, pretty cool.

THe first band goes on, Clocked In. Not just a black flag reference, as they had their own song called clocked in (about work obviously). pretty good.

up next was a band i had been meaning to check out for a while named gross negligence... i went to get a bottle of water, and unfortunately due to my stubborness to not turn around and the lack of unsynchronized lights and terrible drivers AND ENDING UP GETTING CAUGHT IN STADIUM TRAFFIC AND DRIVING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE STREET i fucking ended up MISSING this band. but i digress...

up next was Mother Speed, pretty good band. kids circle pitting in the driveway (which was on a minor slope) , pretty cool. as if to test the will cops (who werent there) the singer repeatedly called for people to smoke pot in the next 5 minutes because "its probably better than whatever else you would be doing", and during a lull in the song runs into the house and comes out with a whitewalled bong, pretty amusing.

unfortunately, about half of the kids left after that band as it was about midnight at this point, but it didnt really matter. seasick was up next, and pretty much killed it. nick is a madman and the band played well. the singer of the previous band jumped off the roof into the circle pit, pretty crazy. covered the cromags. good set

ANS was up next. While there werent too many kids left, the ones that were were PUMPED. played crazy for the whole set, even as mark was playing his second set of the night on guitar. covered poison idea. singer commented at about 1am, "I cant believe no one has called the cops yet!?" i found out later that apparently the cops are "too scared" to shut down shows there.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

So we went on down to tj and have a few beers, shoot some pool in an empty bar, head over to the Escape Club on AVENIDA REVOLUCION. There are a few kids there, not much, hang out a little before heading in.

The venue, the escape club, was the upstairs half of a bar, pretty damn small. upstairs was a small showspace with high ceilings, stage on the side of the room with a railing and staircase to the crowd, weird setup. on the far end was merch and a small seating area that opened up to the street. there was also a balcony type thing, including a weird part that came right up to the stage with a ladder going up to it.

Vena Cava went on and it was alright, I wasn't that into it.

After that I ended up talking to this awesome mexican kid for a while all about everything, he had a pretty cool POV on shit, then i went to watch the next band.

Tiltwheel went on after that and played a pretty short set a lot more kids were paying attention to them than vc, mostly SD kids though, it seemed. However afterwards, that mexican kid came up to me and told me he thought it was awesome.

After that, some very loud band named BLUMBKLAAT went on. not really sure what was going on.

After that, Citizen Fish went on. I watched from the balcony for a little bit, there was a giant circle pit, it was pretty cool, not that rough it didnt look like. They played well and for a while, and then got off.

Finally, at 12:45, Leftover Crack went on. Brad played on the part of the balcony that came out to the stage, while the rest of the band played on the stage. played a bunch of songs, scott was standing on the railing and jumping up to the balcony a lot, touched a disco ball on the ceiling and almost fell on the crowd multiple times. kids were surging onto the stage from the weird staircase and had to be pushed back by the sound guy, it was pretty weird.

cool show