We asked to play this show through our friend and booker, Mike Delehanty. He's a great guy who has his fingers in the honey pots of all parts of the RI music scene, as well as booking Harpers Ferry in Boston. We've opened for Whole Wheat Bread 4 or 5 times in the past. They are super nice guys, put on a great show, and their music definitely goes with ours. Mike said yes because he's a sweetheart.
So we go, show ends up with probably 80 kids there, but we open, and its still daylight, and about 20 people get to watch us. Everyone there was excessively cool and nice to us. Harpers Ferry is a great venue, and the people that work there are super cool. Christian got kicked out for bringing his own beer in, and the bouncer was still nice about it. Awesome guys, awesome place.
As we tend to do with national acts, we hounded Whole Wheat Bread the entire time about booking and playing with them and stuff. They were also wicked nice about it and talked to us all night. If you haven't heard/seen them, go do it. They are nice, talented guys who put on a great show.
The people at the show seemed to enjoy us (they obviously didn't know us, in Boston) and we got a lot of positive feedback after we played. Sousa and I spent the rest of the night sitting and writing the next video.
We had driven two vehicles to the show - we just got our new van and had gotten a trailer hitch attached to it yet, so we couldn't use it. After the show, I locked my keys in my car and Sousa and I had to get a ride home from AAA, in a two-passenger truck, holding all three of us (Sousa, the driver, and I). It was over an hour. The driver was very nice and talkative, and told us he didn't know if Ecstasy was illegal, and that the most beautiful prostitutes on Cape Verde only cost $5 (and were extremely young). Good to know.
Tom had AAA Gold so I didn't have to pay for the towing. I gave the tow-guy a DVD. He seemed like a good man.
- Chuck Staton
SET LIST:
Smile
Nothing's Left
I'm Crazy
VBW Song
Tom's Not
Explode RI
Ataxia
Monday, July 7, 2008
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