08.23.06 Darkest Hour / Misery Signals / FSSW
Two shows in two weeks. Not too shabby if I do say so my self. The show was at Richards, which I don't recall putting on too many metal/hardcore shows. The turnout was suprising for me. It was not bad in fact. They even opened up the balcony. I mean it was no where near as full as thw SMZ show last week, but pretty good considering it was Darkest Hour, who has no airplay.
Got to the doors at 8 and got let in about 20 minutes later. Security asked about my cams and said to ask the promoter (who happened to be Vancouver's own Zoe from the defunct Red Light Sting) about perm. Of course it was yes.
First band up was From a Second Story Window. I've really never heard of them before and probably don't care to hear anymore of them. For the most part they weren't very memorable and seemed to be 5 years too late for the kind of music that they were playing. To be honest they were probably only 3 years too late. They played for about half an hour.
Next up was Misery Signals. Apparently they are from Edmonton and the next up and coming metalcore band. They did have a pretty cool t-shirt (think blue shirt with Edmonton Oilers insignia tweaked with Misery Signals). They had a pretty cool turnout. Mostly kids from Surrey and kids just turning 19 it would seem. Apparently they had a really good set at Warped Tour. Their show was pretty good I'll admit... Despite the fact I could swear they stole their setup from the Dillinger Escape Plan. They did play pretty well and were pretty entertaining. Apparently their new album came out the day before. They played a couple of cuts from that as well. Even had a lot of stage divers and crowd surfers despite the lack of crowd density.
Darkest Hour played last. One of the openers, whose name I can't recall had van problems. I was kind of hoping the show would end early so I could go home early. That wasn't happening. I was hoping there wouldn't be rowdies. There was. The worst thing was that for some reason they were using heaps and heaps of smoke. While this is pretty good for a stage show, its horrible for filming. Actually, in retrospect, there was probably too much smoke. Even from the back of the venue it looked like the stage was on fire. From the back it kinda looked like a big cloud of smoke with heads popping out of the smoke every once in the while. Regardless it was pretty good. A huge improvement from seeing them in 2004. Plus they played tranquil a song inspired by John Henry's visit to stanley park. Disappointed that they didn't do any of their crazy stage antics (the pyramid or shredding with the guitar around an audience member). That and they're still only doing pretty short 40 minute sets. I think that set may have even been shorter than the show last year. There was a funny moment after the show with Ryan their drummer.
Ryan walks out
Random guy: Why don't you guys play an encore?
Ryan: Well we normally don't play an encore
Me: Yea but its on your setlist!
Ryan: Yea I don't know why its there.
They also announced that they'll be back here in 2007 to record a new album.
$10/$15
Got to the doors at 8 and got let in about 20 minutes later. Security asked about my cams and said to ask the promoter (who happened to be Vancouver's own Zoe from the defunct Red Light Sting) about perm. Of course it was yes.
First band up was From a Second Story Window. I've really never heard of them before and probably don't care to hear anymore of them. For the most part they weren't very memorable and seemed to be 5 years too late for the kind of music that they were playing. To be honest they were probably only 3 years too late. They played for about half an hour.
Next up was Misery Signals. Apparently they are from Edmonton and the next up and coming metalcore band. They did have a pretty cool t-shirt (think blue shirt with Edmonton Oilers insignia tweaked with Misery Signals). They had a pretty cool turnout. Mostly kids from Surrey and kids just turning 19 it would seem. Apparently they had a really good set at Warped Tour. Their show was pretty good I'll admit... Despite the fact I could swear they stole their setup from the Dillinger Escape Plan. They did play pretty well and were pretty entertaining. Apparently their new album came out the day before. They played a couple of cuts from that as well. Even had a lot of stage divers and crowd surfers despite the lack of crowd density.
Darkest Hour played last. One of the openers, whose name I can't recall had van problems. I was kind of hoping the show would end early so I could go home early. That wasn't happening. I was hoping there wouldn't be rowdies. There was. The worst thing was that for some reason they were using heaps and heaps of smoke. While this is pretty good for a stage show, its horrible for filming. Actually, in retrospect, there was probably too much smoke. Even from the back of the venue it looked like the stage was on fire. From the back it kinda looked like a big cloud of smoke with heads popping out of the smoke every once in the while. Regardless it was pretty good. A huge improvement from seeing them in 2004. Plus they played tranquil a song inspired by John Henry's visit to stanley park. Disappointed that they didn't do any of their crazy stage antics (the pyramid or shredding with the guitar around an audience member). That and they're still only doing pretty short 40 minute sets. I think that set may have even been shorter than the show last year. There was a funny moment after the show with Ryan their drummer.
Ryan walks out
Random guy: Why don't you guys play an encore?
Ryan: Well we normally don't play an encore
Me: Yea but its on your setlist!
Ryan: Yea I don't know why its there.
They also announced that they'll be back here in 2007 to record a new album.
$10/$15
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