Saturday, October 20, 2007

in the orchard


wednesday, nicole and i drove up to cleveland without tickets, to see tiger army. we we're able to get in without any problem, and were within the first 10 people there. we snagged a spot directly in the front and center of the stage. the beauty of the small room at the agora is that the stage is low and there is never a barricade. the first band was static age, and they were pretty decent, with a bassist that had this crazy hand. the second band was called street dogs. turns out the singer used to be in the dropkick murphey's, and joshua has seen them before. i enjoyed their set very much, and their bassist, johnny, (who was rather hot) took a couple pictures of us with my camera, while they played. the singer, mike mccolgan, put his hand on my face, and sang to me, and then later on the top of my head. it was odd, but i didn't see him do it to anyone else. maybe he thinks i'm cute. *shrug* still made me feel special, even though i was weirded out a bit. while waiting for tiger army, joy division played through the speakers! i was in heaven.

it's so good to see such an all-around good show like that. the openers didn't suck. tiger army was incredibly awesome. nick13 was incredible. jeff, the bassist, plays a stand-up bass. he was hit in the head with something right as they came on, and he bled hard the whole set. he's so hardcore! they were intense, and performed well. nick13 was delicious and amazing to watch, and sweat-soaked by the end of the show. we were able to touch him, but i didn't want to interfere or offend him any, so i kept back (although it was quite hard not to reach out). nicole got one of jame's drumsticks. she said "looks like he used this one." yes. it looked like a chipmunk had attacked it. very used.




i'll upload pictures later, but now i have to go to a halloween party!
i've uploaded the pictures!












title from tiger army

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

sounds awesome!! cant believe that guy still played with a bleeding head. i'll have to check them if nothing else for there strcit hardcoreness. way to be.