The Melvins 9/27 at Double Door
Thursday night my friend Liza and I went to see The Melvins at the Double Door in Chicago. I realized that this would be the first time I have seen them play in about seven years. I then realized before that, it had been probably seven years between that and the time before it! I [...]
Hotlips Messiah 7/26/07 at Ronny’s
Thursday night I went to Ronny’s for two reasons; to see Hotlips Messiah and to celebrate Slick Horrible’s birthday by meeting up with friends and having a couple of serums. I needed a good night out and this sounded like just what the doctor ordered. Ronny’s is a pretty small bar with a back room [...]
Destroy Everything at Champs Rock Room
Sunday night I took a quick trip over to Champs Rock Room in Burbank, IL to see Destroy Everything. They only ended up playing five songs. I was experimenting some more with different settings on the camera using the flash on the second curtain sync with longer exposures trying to get better results with showing [...]
Planes Mistaken for Stars 11/24 at The Note
Friday night I met Wife of 2 over at The Note to see Planes Mistaken for Stars play a show. It had been a couple years I think since I last saw them play so I was looking forward to seeing them again because the last two times I saw them they put on a [...]
Riot Fest 2006 part one
First of all, I apologize for the lengthy delay in getting this up here. I had the most hectic week of the year last week between working overtime nearly every night and Saturday, and then going to Senor Citizen’s wedding on Sunday (congrats to him and Lady of 2 on tying the knot by the [...]
Avengers, The Effigies 9/3 at Beat Kitchen
Last night The Loaf and I went down to the Beat Kitchen to see the Avengers, The Effigies, The Plus Ones and M.O.T.O. It was a 21 and over gig which meant it started at 9pm and thankfully they didn’t have to hurry the show along so to clear out for a later one the [...]
30 years of punk show
Saturday was the big 30 years of punk show over at Stage 83 in Lemont, IL. This day-long festival was put together by some of my best friends, the guys from Destroy Everything. It featured a mix of old and new bands spanning nearly every decade of punk rock, though it was much more heavily [...]
Clit 45 at Stage 83
Last night I went to see Clit 45, Career Soldiers, The Infected, and The Frantic play at Stage 83 in Lemont. Cheddar and Lady Nines came by early and picked me up because the promoter (Rose Red Productions) was borrowing a couple of mics from Cheddar Nines for the show. We were at the club [...]
Subhumans 4/22/06 at Logan Square Auditorium
Last night, Senor Citizen, Lady of 2, and I went to see Subhumans, Leftover Crack, Saint Catherines, and Siderunners at the Logan Square Auditorium. Senor and I got to the city and found Lady of 2 and proceeded to wait in the very very long line to get in the show. I was amazed at [...]
Destroy Everything, The Deranged, Dublin Brigade at Stage 83
Last night (well it could almost be considered late afternoon) I went over to the Clown Ranch to meet up with the Klown army to head out to a show Destroy Everything was doing over at Stage 83 in Lemont. After a pit stop for some junk food over at White Hen, we made the [...]
Destroy Everything and Hotlips Messiah 1/18/06
Last night Destroy Everything and Hotlips Messiah played a show at Roc Bar in Chicago. Normally this bar doesn’t have live music playing and I think it is pretty new and it is owned by one of the members of the band Disturbed. I am not really a fan of that band, however the bar [...]
Macabre and Destroy Everything 12/23/05 at Double Door
Friday night I went to see Macabre and Destroy Everything (along with two other bands) play at the Double Door here in Chicago. While I like Macabre, my main reason for going of course was to see my punk brothers (aka: my beloved Klowns) in Destroy Everything play a show, as it always promises to [...]
LFCM November recording session
Last night we had another recording session for our “Live From Combustion Manor” radio show. Sadly out planned special guest, Barry, couldn’t make it out for the show. Hopefully he can come out for the next one. Members in attendance this time were MXV, Senor Citizen, Cheddar Nines, Stiff Mittens, Hanover Fist and Cocoa Hole. [...]
Riot Fest after-party at The Exit
After we decided that we couldn’t stomach the shit sandwich that “The Misfits” were trying to feed us, Senor Citizen and myself drove a couple of the Angry Samoans over to The Exit to get prepared for them to play there in the upstairs section of that fine little bar. We arrived and it turned [...]
Riot Fest 2005 day two
Saturday saw the second and final day of Riot Fest 2005. There was an obscene number of bands playing that day, something around 20 and the show was supposed to start around noon! Needless to say the thought of sitting through ten bands we either never heard of and/or didn’t care about didn’t appeal to [...]
