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Epitaph Records -- Millencolin

I got to this show somewhat early and surprisingly enough Bottom of the Hill opened their doors about 10 minutes before it said they were going to on their website. Having stuff like that happen always puts me in a good mood. My friend had to take some photos of The Walkmen before the show and I got to meet a couple of the guys from the band. Once my friend got taking photos of them we went back inside the venue. Apollo Sunshine was doing a sound check and were sounding really good. I was somewhat surprised because what I had heard online didn’t really do much for me, so I was glad that they sounded so good.

Apollo Sunshine opened up the show at around 9:40pm, which was approximately 40 minutes after the show was supposed to start. These guys are from Boston, Ma and flew out to LA for business and got added to a couple shows while they are out here. I am pretty surprised, but these guys are still unsigned but I don’t think it will last for much longer. The guitarist does plenty of guitar kicks while the bassist sports a mean fu man chu mustache, plays keyboard and sings as well. They also used a good amount of slide guitar during their set, which I really liked and was done very good. Some of the songs they played during their set were “Fear of Heights”, “The Egg”, “I Was on The Moon”, “Blood is Wood”, “Sheets with Stars”, and the final song for the night for them was “Mayday Disorder”. Keep an eye out for these guys for sure.

Everyone’s favorite Canadians, Hot Hot Heat were up next. They had played an in store concert earlier at Amoeba Records in San Francisco and said playing tonight was better since they weren’t hung over. Fresh off them signing to Warner Brother’s Records didn’t hurt since some of the guys were sporting some new shoes and plenty nice clothes. Once they started their set, the dancing didn’t stop until the final song they played. These guys were a pretty fun band with Steve(singer) walking around on stage singing to the crowd and going back to the keyboard while singing. Some of the songs they played off their EP, “Knock Knock Knock” were “5 Times Out of 100”, “More For Show”, and “Touch You Touch You”. The songs that I noticed they played from their latest album “Make Up the Break Down” were, “No, Not Now”, and “Get In or Get Out”. Steve said they had one song left and this is a dialog between my friend and I:
Me: “Do you think this song is going to be Bandages?”
My Friend: “*Shrug* I don’t know.”
Steve: “This last song is called Bandages.”
So Hot Hot Heat finished up Bandages and were done for the night.

The closers for the night were The Walkmen who you might know from their song in the latest Saturn car commercial called “We’ve Been Had”. They put out their latest album on Star Time Records also home to French Kicks and Brendan Benson. New to their setup for tonight’s show was a piano that they had just gotten. I don’t think they even had it at their show last night which was at the same venue as tonight. The lights lowered and The Walkmen took the stage. The guys were all dressed nice and wearing some sport coats. Their drummer was pretty amazing, from the moment they started up he was drumming like crazy and was baffled that he didn’t pass out from wearing such warm clothes in there. I really don’t know much from this band other than the songs they have on their website and on their label’s website, but they really amazed me. Standing there listening to the music can make you almost lost in how much sound there is involved. A couple other songs they played for the night were “Wake Up” and “Revenge Wears No Wristwatch”. To end the night they play a couple songs for their encore and were done for the evening. This was their 1st time to the West Coast and I hope it won’t be their last.



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    Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, August 14, 2004 at 7:47 PM (EDT)
    My Score:

    wow. talk about the apollo sunshine bit being true. cant turn on the radio without hearing i was on the moon when you were born.

    Posted by evildeadalive on 2003-02-11 02:59:21
    My Score:

    Uh huh, yeah. Can you please point out where I said anything bad about either of those bands?

    Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 10, 2003 at 8:09 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    so are the hives

    Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 10, 2003 at 2:58 AM (EST)
    My Score:

    cept the strokes are awesome, tool

    Posted by evildeadalive on 2003-02-06 21:14:05
    My Score:

    Hot Hot Heat are alright and all, but I guarantee in a year from now you all will be lumping them in with the Strokes and the Hives and going on about how much they suck.

    Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 5:45 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    sorry champ, but the walkmen played, and sold out, the bottom of the hill just a few months ago.

    Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 2:19 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    IowaNick....obviously you don't pay much attention around here. REALPUNX4LIFE's name is a total joke. The rest of us get it, why can't you? God, I really hate idiocy.

    -sickboi
    (apparently I can't spell either)

    Posted by preacher on 2003-02-06 13:59:13
    My Score:

    That is one shit conversation.

    Posted by rayjay on 2003-02-06 06:41:22
    My Score:

    yes. he uses the number 4 to represent the word 'for'.

    who is the real retard.

    My friend: is that realpunx4life a retard?
    Me *shrugs* i guess so
    (awkward silence)
    Me: Actually, yes. he is a big retard.

    Posted by WussEmoRock on 2003-02-05 18:13:22
    My Score:

    I'm the only person that can pull off conversations at shows in my reviews. word.

    *****Wuss-Emo-Rock*****

    Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 5, 2003 at 10:30 AM (EST)
    My Score:

    a nice review, i really like the walkmen and i'll keep an ear open for apollo sunshine. but i must agree with realpunx4life (by the way, if he did spell his "4" it would be "for" not "four") and add that predicting a bands last song is pretty dang easy. it's the hit that they haven't played yet. it's usually pretty obvious.

    Posted by iowanick on 2003-02-05 01:17:07
    My Score:

    Dear REALPUNX4LIFE,

    If you read the review correctly you would have noticed it said "Me" next to where i asked if they're going to play bandages for their last song.

    In conclusion, why can't you spell punx, punks and 4, four?

    Yours Truly,
    iowanick

    Posted by REALPUNX4LIFE on 2003-02-05 00:10:47
    My Score:

    WHOA! Your friend actually predicted what the last song would be?! Awesome! Ask him what tomorrow's lotto numbers will be.

    Your friend: Do you think the third number will be 4?
    Me: *shrug* I don't know.
    Lotto caller: And the third number is 6.
    Me: Excuse me, I think you misheard the man. He said 4, not 6.

    In conclusion, I'm glad that conversation was included in the review. It made me feel like I was actually at the show with a couple of retards.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 4, 2003 at 9:17 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    For the person that wants hot hot heat to headline, the bands have actually been switching it up so that one night the walkmen headline and the next night hot hot heat headline, and so on, and so on. this helps prevent the dick measuring between bands. so if the tour comes to philly hopefully hot hot heat will be in line to headline. woefully i don't think this tour is coming to the east coast, i think its a west coast thing. personally, i could care less who headlines, i just wanted this tour to come to new york. guess not.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 4, 2003 at 8:56 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    I'm not in the know. Never heard Hot Hot Heat. Can I get mp3's anywhere?

    -sickboi

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 4, 2003 at 6:51 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    saw hot hot heat in september in winnipeg, 4 dollar cover, about 50 people there tops, good time

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 4, 2003 at 5:55 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    hot hot heat is a great bnd - bigjerk

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 4, 2003 at 5:14 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    both bands are great. i was just hoping this tour would be coming to nyc. but unfortunately, no. the walkmen are pretty mellow, but they have some really beautiful songs with great arrangements. their full length is a great album. hot hot heat just plain rock.

    Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 4, 2003 at 2:24 PM (EST)
    My Score:

    What a great sounding show, wish I could see this tour, but it should be the other way around, Hot hot heat needs to headline! ....and to play philly

    Posted by shindo on 2003-02-04 13:21:00
    My Score:

    The Hot Hot Heat rock. I'm looking forward to seeing them someday.

    adam

    Posted by sloppyblake on 2003-02-04 12:56:23
    My Score:

    i wish hot hot heat would play here.

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