the warehouse

May 4th
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Dock (all ages warehouse venue)
w/ mourning electra

Pat (Mourning Electra) set us up with a really sweet warehouse show in Philly. We'd had a show booked at the Khyber but it fell through, Pat was able to set this show up kind of last minute style. The warehouse was huge and creepy, and full of all kinds of stuff.

We went downstairs to Pat and Tim's practice space and saw the "energy drinks" for the first time. We split a couple and started speeding. The drinks were in blue viles and full of sugar and caffeine. They made my teeth hurt on contact.

We made a bunch more merch at the venue. Luke and Trevis made some really cool shirts while I burned more CDs. We ended up getting stuck playing last and most of the people were leaving as we were loading in, but it worked out okay. It was a fun show, we played on the loading dock and there were crazy flood lights on us that created huge shadows on the warehouse wall.

After the show, we rolled back to Pat's apartment. He hooked us up with everything. We were smoking, just glad to have somewhere to stay, and all of a sudden two pizzas show up. The next morning Pat hooked us up with coffee and doughnuts. Meeting people like Pat restore your faith in the human race, if you were having doubts. He gave us pretty much all the door money for gas.

We listened to Bleach on vinyl and decided to play 'Floyd the Barber' at our next show even though none of us really knew it. At a few of the shows, we played the Breeder's song 'New Year' with the same, "we kind of know it" attitude. We'd never practiced it; just listened to it in the car a few times to make sure we kind of knew where the changes were. Sometimes it was awesome, sometimes it was just a mess, but it was always fairly interesting.

Pat gave us a box of speed viles and a hug for the road, good people.