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:	post by boobtoucher at 2003-10-26 23:22:41

Last night we had a show at the box of knives in providence. That place is a serious scum palace where you can bring your own beer and basically shoot up black tar heroin, smoke crack, and/or fuck a 12 yr old asian boy with no consequences.

Anyway, we learned that upstairs was a serious punk show featuring none other than toxic narcotic and the UK Subs themselves. So, like many of our shows, not many people showed up, but upstairs was packed to the walls with enough leather, metal, and ironed mohawks to ressurect Sid Vicious himself.

We played downstairs, as scheduled, and rocked the fucker to the ground. Then somebody asked me if I wanted to go check out the bands upstairs.

I said, "For $7?, no thanx"
He replied, "I can get you in for free."
To which I responded, "How bout you get us to play up there."
"It may be a possiblity," he said

I followed him upstairs, found some half conscious man who, not only set up the show in this two-story sewage containment facility, but also lived there. We proceeded to tell him the network wanted to play, he mumbled something with an agreeable look on his face, and then our bandmates, as well as almost everyone who saw us downstairs, carried all our equipment immediately upstairs.

We set up in the corner and right when some shitty band was finished, we blasted into one of our new songs while tightly encased by a wall made up of some of the dirtiest fuckin punks I've seen since I lived in D.C. The kids that saw us downstairs as well as some of our buddies from Umbrella just went nuts. And, I must say, I think we put on a particularly good performance and sounded amazing as well. The next thing I knew, the majority of the punks must have reached some deeply rooted instinctive attraction to raw, energetic music and just joined in the melee. It was as if they no longer needed a constant beat or easily accesible chorus, verse, chorus to appreciate some dirty shit. Needless to say, all of us were being tossed around and loving it. We played only 3 songs and were out.

We played two of the new songs we've been recording (Rev, you'll have them within two weeks or so), and the first song of our 2002 demo, End Transmission. We surprisingly sold a great deal of merch and were invited by numerous people to play again.

I don't know what relevance this story has, but it was probably the most fun I've personally had playing a show in a long time. Also, it was satisfiying to be given the oppurtunity to see such varying cultures based primarily around extreme music of somewhat differing fundamental structures and sound come together in such an unprecented, but natural way. For someone who has evolved into the person I am today through music ranging from early punk, indie, and eventually metal/hc/grind and everything in between, it was reassuring to have experienced this type of event. It made me think of a lot of the bullshit that comes up in underground music, be it separatism, elitist attitudes, closed-mindedness, etc., is exactly what it is, BULLSHIT.

This was how I felt before, however, last night served as a reminder and only strengthed my initial belief. And its not just that this type of "bullshit" only happens in underground music, I believe its just a natural phenomenon that occurs within any culture, subculture, or even a small group of people. The ones who are able to realize this, I believe, are the ones that stick around and are the best to be around. Shit happens, rock on.

Also, for some reason, I really think we're gonna get signed soon. I have no credible evidence to base this on, but its gotta happen and huge thanx to the Rev, Rusted Angel, and everyone else here who's into us and all the other local bands who are way too under appreciated. I honestly think that this site, the radio show, and all its fans are a microcosm of the way metal/hardcore should be, and someday, will be.

the_network xoxoxoxoxo

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