w/Big Coffin Hunters & Art of Betrayal So many things went wrong with this show that I barely know where to start. We got a vibe that this would be a stinker a few weeks ahead of time when we found out how the money works – the security and door person’s pay came out of [ More ]
w/Big Coffin Hunters In my mind any gig booked on the Saturday after Thanksgiving will not be big in terms of draw – I assume everyone will still be either out of town or in a turkey coma – but when Big Coffin Hunters asked us to share the bill I had no qualms about it. [ More ]
w/Goatwhore, Random Acts of Violence, The End of Everything Goatwhore is a USBM band from Louisiana signed to Metal Blade and on tour with Celtic Frost. They got all the black metal usuals: double-bass, grinding guitars, grunt-growl vocals. For this off-night from the CF tour the bill was originally them, Boston’s Random Acts of Violence (very [ More ]
Halloween w/Taming the Shrew and Covered in Bees Upon arriving at Pub 33 we were faced with an odd sight: a couch right where the bands usually set up. Obviously this was quite perplexing until a guy who said he was playing with Taming the Shrew that night directed us to the next room. It seems [ More ]
w/Twisted Roots, Hour Past, and Heart-Shaped Rock On fairly short notice the Twisted Roots guys asked us to play a benefit for one of their sons, who needs an operation. An old friend of mine from back in NJ is in a similar situation with his young daughter, so I know something about how the poor [ More ]
w/Dark Martini & The Dirty Olives and Some Techno Singer Playing out of town shows is getting to be a financial hardship for us, with a new cd to finance and gas prices being what they are. A bright spot of this show was that my friend Rich and his wife Jen (who I had never [ More ]
w/Coven of 13 & Medusa Maidens Generally speaking I don’t object to getting older, but 39 was met with some trepidation, since the 39th and 40th birthdays are always met with comments like “ooooh – you’re almost 40″ or “ooooh – you ARE 40!” I’m definitely looking forward to 41, when such comments stop. So, our [ More ]
w/Mata Hari & Damien Zygote Circumstances made it difficult to form a pre-conceived notion about how this show would go in terms of turnout. On one hand it was being promoted by WCYY-FM’s Spinout and dj Mark Curdo had been plugging it on-air. On the other hand there was heavy competition from another show in town [ More ]
w/Mindset X, Eden’s Lie, Porter & Red State Unlike the Spyder Room, the Milly’s gig was fairly easy to book. The guy at the club said “I know Steve from Mindset X is looking for bands for a show – here’s his number”. I called Steve and after a few days (I guess he checked out [ More ]
w/Adria, Fallow & Duke I’ll be quite frank: this gig was a bitch to book. Despite our not-too-shabby resume, it seems that many “promoters” in that whole Northeast Mass/Southern NH are not all that on-the-ball. I sent demo after demo, called and emailed when and where told, and for the most part I didn’t even get [ More ]
Halfway to Halloween Horror Ball w/Covered In Bees & Medusa Maidens Our big show, The Halfway to Halloween Horror Ball, came and went and boy was it a good-un. Probably our best ever. It was the brainchild of Covered in Bees, and of course By Blood Alone is game for anything involving horror and halloween. There was [ More ]
w/Sometimes It Burns & Hi-Fivin’ White Guys I must confess I was a tad wary of playing Lewiston again considering what happened the last time (for those of you who don’t know, just be glad you don’t), but this gig went down really well. The joint is really small, but seemed pretty full. Of course the [ More ]
w/Sometimes It Burns & Covered In Bees This second show in Lewiston was actually the result of a mis-booking from months ago, but we were invited to play the show anyway. Once again we went on early but there was already a big crowd when we started. Some fans from Portland were there to catch us [ More ]
Not really a show per se, but a live video taping that was open to the public. That day had extremely high winds and a lot of the NE lost power for a few hours or a few days. Luckily Lisbon Falls was spared. There’s not much to say – we loaded in, set up, [ More ]