Its official … EJ’s rules. Every time we play there or go see a show it always is good. We finally got to play with Bomf! We had been to see them a few times before and were excited about it. Bomf! is now on tour. Go see them. They are great. They are on tour with The Leeches who are so cool they even have a song about farm animals.

There wasn’t too much to say about this show. 5 bands in 3 hours made for a lot of music. The Kankor Sores were pretty burly, and the Knuckleheads had a pretty good show as well. It seemed like everyone there knew their songs. As for us, we played first so it wasn’t too much to tell. In fact, when the sound guy told us to go ahead and start there were only 2 people there. Of course, they all started to roll in during the end of our set. It didn’t matter though, because we couldn’t see a thing with the cool ‘stage lights.’

Marty’s Garage is literally a garage attached to Marty’s house and a surprisingly cool place to play. They just open the doors to the garage and the bands play inside. Aside from a cool place to play people there seem to know an awful lot about wrestling. A band called Brody played after us and they were really darn good. Go see them if they play near you. They were from Philadelphia and seemed really nice. Anyway, thanks Marty.

Monday night … 11:00 … do you know where your kids are? Well they weren’t at our show. I think everyone in town went to see Face to Face. No, actually it was free band night at Satyricon and the turnout was surprisingly good. A lot of people heard us from the bar or outside and came in to see us. I think tonight’s highlight was Bryan bashing through one of his toms in the middle of our set. This was almost eclipsed by seeing a genuine pimp coming out of a nearby building after the show.

Man I thought this show was gonna suck. There was hardly anyone there, it was a tuesday night, and the headlining band bumped us to play last just so they could get back home early. This was all after we agreed to give them all of the door money. Thankfully, people stuck around through their whole set, so by the time we started there were between 30-40 really bored looking people. But once we started everyone seemed to wake back up. After a few songs and a bunch of Macho Man jokes things started to rock. It got pretty wacky, people throwing chairs, dancing on other people’s backs, pile-on’s and the occasional “clear out a circle and lets breakdance” session. It was the most fun I’ve had playing in a long time. A couple of people thanked us after the show, saying how glad they were that someone from Portland was finally into playing all ages shows. Oh by the way, Phill Wanted still rocks.