Feb 21,2008- Down To Nothing, Violation, Cruel Hand, The Mongoloids, Masterpiece

This was obviously an awesome show. Even if Masterpiece wasn't on this show and some random shit like Silverchair was on it, all of us would have been there anyways because every other band that played rules. Those bands are some of the best bands in hardcore right now as far as I'm concerned. There was a really awesome turn out and I saw a lot of faces I haven't seen in a while.

We opened the show and started it off with our "Kingtro". We call it that because for the most part it is ripped off of a King Diamond riff. As soon as Jimmy started playing the drums kids started moshing side to side and I already knew that our set was going to rule. Right after that we played a new song and kids seemed to really be into it. After going through those two we went onto some material that the kids actually knew and we played "Dust to Dust", the first song off of our 7". I was really excited because everyone was going bat shit crazy. Jason C-Tech, Pat, Luke, Luke's Mullet, Orion, Chris, among others were holding it down and really set it off in the pit. During the set someone yelled out, "Drop the gimmick.", whatever the fuck that means, I don't know. Hecklers have no effect on us because we have always just gone straight from song to song and if playing as hard as we can on stage and having a good time is a gimmick than 90% of hardcore bands need to "drop the gimmick". We ended our set with "For the kids" and then the Masterpiece intro or outro, however you want to look at it. It seems like not playing that intro for a while then bringing it back was a good choice because every time we play that and the whole room is moshing it blows my mind. Shout out to Brandon T. for taking some more photos of us and the entire show.

The Mongoloids played after us and it ruled. They played a ton of songs off of Time Trials and there were even a few speaker dives from me and Jimmy. Lots of mosh and lots of head banging going on. They had a pretty awesome merch set up and it seemed like the Time Trials crew neck was the big seller that night...I got one.

Cruel Hand played next and their set was pretty sweet. They played pretty much all songs from the new CD on 6131 and kids seemed to really be into them. I saw Jimmy do a flip off of the speakers during one of the songs.

I grabbed a plate of Vegan Spaghetti from the kitchen and then caught Violation. They are my favorite band from California. and aside from Down to Nothing had the biggest crowd reaction of the night. If you haven't heard Violation yet, get out from under your rock. They just got signed to 1917 and soon they will be putting out a split double CD with Slipknot.

Down to Nothing played last and it was awesome to see this band again. This was the first night of their like 3 month world tour. Straight Edge rules. They played a good mix of songs from each record and the kids moshed and dived. I did a flip off the speaker and ended up falling on my wrist/ass, no big deal. This show was also the first time they had their new album called, "Unbreakable". This is both the Save it for the Birds and Splitting Headache albums re-released on Revelation Records. The CD also includes some random live footage. After they were done playing they ended up playing two more songs, Skate or Die and Home Sweet Home. Awesome set, I can't wait to see these guys when they are on tour with Earth Crisis and Terror.

Overall the show ruled. If you missed it and live in the San Diego area it sucks to be you.