Forum.RttP{may 30th - stratford, ct}

wow! why is CT so messed up? all the shows there get f'ed up and not all the bands get to play cause it gets too late. Sorry to newandyke, I missed their set due to traffic.
sooo many things happend.
The parking lot was full of tons of kids. The venue actually had more girls than guys, but, as untold blake pointed out, they were all 14. I think if you brought a 14 year old girl, you got a $1 off the admission. I should have brought my little sister.
Some guys wanted through and said "dude, is there some sort of rock show? this is going to kill the stag party"
the drunk roadie-bouncer guy kept stopping the show to announce some bs about something.

any how, scene scene scene, on to the bands.

aka preston: punkish, like blink 182

fell from stars: first show, it was pretty good too, metalcore.

madison prep: wasn't my thing, sounded like juliana theory.

sacrostic: not bad. they had a keyboard, but I never heard it. At some points they sounded like norma jean, others parts like sky cutting stars, but there was one breakdown that sounded like korn which I didn't like.

nothing star: the guy had a decent screaming voice, but the music kind of weak in a few parts and sound sort-of like a hardcore tool or something. I wasn't to down with all the clean singing either.

invocation of nehek: First show with a new bassist. he went through 3 basses too. From this perfromance, I know that they played like a pile of dog-poop at the pogo club. tonight, they were killer. I was blown away. Keep rocking like that.

untold truth: Much mic passing even though that little blake has a wicked wide, brutal voice. I believe the singer for Fight Night grabbed the mic for a song too.

for.her.i.can.be.a.hero: well, there was a little to-do with bouncer-roady guy chasing down the mic for some reason. Then, nothing was announced. I don't get it. Anyhow, for her play so much better than the pogo club as well. I need to get some mp3s from them or something. the old lead singer was dancing around in the pit too.

post rake syndrome: all I remember is calling them "some alt-band". I don't really remember. I know they said something about the place closing at midnight, then played for like 3 hours longer.

dying in sin: kids go off for dying in sin. I think the pictures speak for themselves though, they only got to play like 4 songs.

failsafe device: missing a guitar player? last time, minus a singer? I hope this trend doesn't continue or there will be nothing left. On that note, guess what? even with the whole "bury your dead"-thing, failsafe is still making new tracks. they played one at this show and it was, as the others, killer.

in pieces: well, I didn't really pay attention to them. They said something like "the kid running this show doesn't know what he's doing so some bands won't get to play. we're going to do two songs and then the show is over." I snapped a few pictures, kids were singing along, but I really didn't like the mp3s from in pieces I heard so I went over the where s&f had set up...

shallow and flats: I think I egged them on to start playing while in pieces was playing. They got to play a song and a half. Kids went crazy, then the own and bouncer-roadie-thing came over and made them stop. Some chairs were thrown, tear-gas dropped, someone started yelling something. well, in the end, my lungs/eyes are still burning and there are a few less windows at oddfellas.

what did we learn hear?
1) if you are putting on a show with 1000 bands in 6 hours on 2 stages, make sure you are in the room and not in the parking lot so you can push the bands to set up and play so EVERY band and play.
2) if you are a bouncer, you shouldn't be drunk.
3) any where in a bathroom is far game for an upper-decker.
4) CT drivers are horrible
5) leave early for CT shows (see #4)