So let's talk about last night, shall we?
Switchfoot, by the time they got onstage, hadn't slept in like a day and a half, in part due to a bomb scare that shut down Ottawa Airport yesterday morning for hours. sd got some background info from a dude we met: some idiot packed sensitive geological equipment in his regular baggage, items that by law have to reported in advance and stored in a special section of the airplane. They weren't and they weren't. So they looked on X-ray like detonation devices, so the entire place was shut down.
After all this, the band still played a killer set. Two new songs woven in among the hits(nothing going as far back as The Legend of Chin, ie maybe 'Chem 6a', which a lot of the crowd hoped for, but some stuff off of New Way To Be Human. And to top it off, they're super nice dudes. sweetdisaster did not get an interview, which is unfortunate, beyond a minute and a half or so that I managed to squeeze out before vocalist Jon Foreman was whisked away by handlers. Bummer! Thanks to all who came out - like six hundred of y'all. That's very impressive.
And now, some news.
Stavesacre have revamped their website, and to boot, there you'll find four new songs; no word on when a new record will be released to the clamouring hordes. A new DVD is coming as well.
Local band The Transit(great band, great guys) had the chance to open up for Pennywise recently - yeah, I think that's weird too, but you takes what you can gets. Anyway, you can check out some pictures of all the fun times over here. There's also pictures of recent shows featuring The Fully Down(Warped Tour vets-to-be!!) and Buried Inside. Word. And get this: if you look at the first picture of Rosesdead(who opened for Buried Inside you'll see a rear end that belongs to yours truly! I'm famous!
...I was fixing a drum kit that'd fallen apart as soon as the set started. Don't get uptight.
In I Can't Believe I Missed This Band Again news, today's essential listening(July 8th, kids) is actually one song: 'Savannah', by Zao, off of 1999's Te Ex Liberate En Inferis record. What a riff.
Posted by mike at July 8, 2004 02:02 PM