Ok, on to the music. Friday night we saw Chamberlain and By the Grace of God. Both were incredible. Chamberlain was also unhappy about the length of their set so after a lot whiskey and most people had left the show they had a very impromptu and informal acoustic set/sing-a-long by some pool tables and out in the parking lot after we all got kicked out. Rob and Todd (not to be confused with Rod and Todd from The Simpsons) were pretty much in music heaven. The smiles on their faces were too genuine to describe. This is a cover of some song that I don't know the name of or the artist who originally wrote it. I'm sorry if its your favourite song. It's awesome and even after a shit ton of whiskey Chamberlain still rocked it.
Day 2 was a little weird and was going to be hard to top after what Chamberlain did the night before. Saturday was "the end of world" which was set to occur around 6pm. Luckily, Anti-Flag started their set at 5:30 so if we had all died at least I saw them live. Their set was pretty awesome. They played a lot songs off of Terror State which is one of my favourite albums. Unfortunately, there were just a few too many young teenagers in the crowd for me to really get into it. These punk kids were skanking about (quite terribly I might add) and just ruining it for us older folks... OK, I'm joking, the show was awesome. It was made even more awesome by the drummer as you will see in this video of the song Power to the Peaceful.
Saturday was also Hot Water Music's turn to take the stage. Unfortunately, I think the Apocalypse tried to happen and failed (take that God) because one hell of a thunderstorm broke out. HWM was supposed to play outside but they were moved inside to avoid serious drowning concerns (not actually). They still killed it. Rob Watson crowd surfed. Some drunk guy tried to climb over me to get closer to the stage (thanks to Todd for pulling him off of me). And of course everyone sang along ridiculously out of tune. Mostly if was just me that was really out of tune as you will hear in the video. I apologize and please don't make fun of me. I may have had one or two American beers in me and I can't carry a tune on the best of days. All in all, HWM is awesome.
Day 3 was big day. While no alcohol was consumed this day (at least by us) kraziness still ensued. Dave Hause started off our day with an awesome acoustic set. This guy is super cool. I want to be his friend. His music is also super cool. I suggest acquiring his solo album asap. He did break two strings on his guitar during his set but he managed to change them while telling some pretty funning stories. Did I mention he may be my new favourite person? I think I've developed a serious man crush here.
Ok, last performance video of the blog. This is The Bouncing Souls. They've been one of my favourite bands since... well, since I started listening to The Bouncing Souls (around grade 9ish we'll say). These guys are well into their 40s but are still rocking hard. I was front row center for this set and got pretty much demolished in the pit. I should also mention that I got really sun burnt on Friday and it was still killing me on Sunday so when this guy decided to use my back as a drum set... yah, it was a little painful. All worth it though cause The Bouncing Souls put on an awesome show. This is a video of their last two songs.
SO those were a sample of the videos I took. There are plenty more and they may make it onto youtube some day. I'll let you if that happens. The next little video is a slideshow of some of the pictures I took. There are performances from By the Grace of God, Cave In, and Against Me. There are also candid shots of Rob and Todd and our nice walks from the hotel to the venue. I just wanna say that Shively is one interesting place. Luckily because of the strip clubs, run down buildings, crazy people, and just general ghettoness, no one cares about 3 skinny white dudes walking down the street drinking beer. Especially the cops. They have bigger problems to worry about. All these elements made our walks very entertaining. (The song is by The Loved Ones (Dave Hause's band) and is a cover of Billy Bragg's 'Lover's Town Revisited')
Good job Krazy Fest, hopefully we'll be back next year.
C Dot
awesome man, so much fun.
ReplyDeleteI thought your singing was angelic.
-rob-