TOP TEN SHOWS OF 2011

[Fish]

if we have a top albums thread, it's not too early to start a top shows thread.

in no particular order...

Grindlandia with Lab Rat, Osk, Obacha, D//Compose, SBB, Selfish Beings, Humanity? at Carpetland
Jelly Boyz/Spectres/Kicking Spit at the alf house
War Hero's second to last show with SBB, Young Oppression, Ahna, Osk at the Chateau
Archagathus brunch show with Violent Gorge, Skeleton, Prison Violence, Selfish Beings, Shooting Spree, Ahna, at Zoo Zhop
Distort day show/Unlearn's last show with Bellicose Minds, Confessions and Geister at the alf house
Napalm Death with Compound Terror at 9One9
Contagium/Mass Grave/Skoria at the Astoria
Iskra/Six brew bantha/No Eulogy/Infect Propaganda at little fernwood
Martyrdod/No Statik/Unlearn/Spectres/Vacant State at 360 Glen
RVIVR/Wlwrm/Hari Legs/Jelly Boyz at the Chateau

[stumped.]

in order

React! Records showcase @ 924 Gilman
Punch, Loma Prieta @ Garbage Mountain
Vacant State LP release @ 360 Glen
Fastcore fest in the woods somewhere
Heavy Chains, Woolworm, Koko @ Pinhole Printing
Set Foot "reunion" shows (it's a toss up between the troyler where it was much more packed and people totally went off, and the vancouver show at the alfhouse which wasn't as intense but slingshot played too)
Rvivr, Woolworm, Hari Legs, Jelly Boyz @ Chateau (my little cousin's first house show!)
Damages record release @ the Red Gate
Outlook @ the Alfhouse
Defiance, Ohio @ the Ukranian Cultural Center

[Fish]

Defiance, Ohio @ the Ukranian Cultural Center

I actually forgot that was this year :\

[stumped.]

yeah man! that show was really fun, i saw hermetic for the first time there and gut feeling played super well

[trappedinside]

too many, don't even know where to begin.

[Hollow]

Hmmm...in no particular order:

Massgrave/Brainoil at the Red Door
Shred the Loops (Caulfield fucking slayed this. Shooting Spree were fucking deadly, and Infect Propaganda and Contagium were amazing as always)
Devotion/Measureless at the Legendary Castle
Set Foot/Narrow View at the Legendary Castle
Wolbachia/GSTS/SixBrewBantha/Medusa at the Red Door
Tom Waits night at Solstice Cafe
Clorox Girls at Hemlock Tavern (SF)
Iskra/SixBrewBantha/No Eulogy/Obacha at the side of a road in Squamish
Fucked Up free show at Club 919
Mouse Ear/Book of Caverns/Watcher at the Red Door

I just realized how many of those shows my band played. Goddammit, I did not mean to become the guy who only goes to shows his band is playing.

[trappedinside]

ordstro/matsuri/obacha/brutohpilia+sbb/victims choice @ red door
last two war hero shows for sure
this gnarly basement show we played in east LA that ACxDC was supposed to play but didn't cause the cops shut it down
bloody phoenix @ norway hall
grindlandia
that brain fever show at kay's house

[Human-Demise]

hey fish, you know my band played grindlandia.

anyways:

grindlandia.
graf orlock/ Owen fucking Hart
Odd future.!!!
ahna heavyfest at the ramp.
withdrawal/xibalba
hardcore fest.
acacia strain / whitechapel
napalm raid!!
bloody phoenix/knelt rote
willing feet/Cetascean

[Hollow]

ordstro/matsuri/obacha/brutohpilia+sbb/victims choice @ red door
bloody phoenix @ norway hall

Forgot about these two, ragers for sure.

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[canon.docre]

Head Hits Concrete/SICK/other crap at the Red Door (err I tihnk that was this year)
Rites of Darkness in San Antonio, Tx- Adorior, Mournful Congregation, Ignivimous, Impetuous Ritual, Midnight, Anhedonist, Antaeus, Inquisition .. the list goes on.
Deviated Instinct at Little Fernwood (was that this year?)
Grindlandia, duh
Willing Feet/Cetascean at Troyler
Bloody Phoenix/Knelt Rote at Norway Hall
Hardcore Fest!
Shred the Loops was indeed insane
Enslaved in Bang-fucking-couver
Martyrdod (I think, from what I can remember.. lawl)

[cadaver]

In approximate chronological order:

Ordstro+Matsuri (got there late due to work but I saw those 2)
the Restarts+the Rebel Spell: Campbell River
Martyrdod+No Statik
Iskra+Willing Feet+Cetacean+Selfish Beings
Book of Caverns+Mouse Ear
Skoria.
Grindlandia OBVIOUSLY
Napalm Death
Brainoil+Massgrave
<3<3<3 Siren Songs+Big Eyes
RVIVR should be on this list but alas I was not there

Runners-up: Brain Fever @ Carpetland (very first CPL show?), Bloody Phoenix+Knelt Rote+Shooting Spree, Grind the Provinces: CR, the 7-band Brain Fever show I somehow put on in CR aka Bryan's birthday

I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat remembering shows I forgot to consider or add, but I never write em down...
Whatever, lists are not relevant to the good times had.

[cadaver]

In approximate chronological order:

Ordstro+Matsuri (got there late due to work but I saw those 2)
the Restarts+the Rebel Spell: Campbell River
Martyrdod
Iskra+Willing Feet+Cetacean+Selfish Beings
Book of Caverns+Mouse Ear
Skoria.
Grindlandia
Napalm Death
Brainoil+Massgrave
<3<3<3 Siren Songs+Big Eyes
RVIVR should be on this list but alas I was not there

Runners-up: Brain Fever @ Carpetland (very first CPL show?), Bloody Phoenix+Knelt Rote+Shooting Spree, Grind the Provinces: CR, the 7-band Brain Fever show I somehow put on in CR aka Bryan's birthday

I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat remembering shows I forgot to consider or add, but I never write em down...
Whatever, lists are not relevant to the good times had.

[trappedinside]

head hits concrete and deviated instinct were 2010. that 7 band show in campbell river and willing feet/cetascean should definitely have been on my list.

[octopie]

The marked men at beer land Willa
That time we played with godstomper in San Jose
Iskra obacha sbb and no eulogy at the side of a road on mushrooms.
Goner and librate in a sketchy basement in east LA
Odd future at the vogue
The last 2 war hero shows
And that time sixbrewbantha and no eulogy got soooo sketchy next to some river it was not a show but it ruled.

[Hollow]

And that time sixbrewbantha and no eulogy got soooo sketchy next to some river it was not a show but it ruled.

Scott won that night.

[Fish]

Scott:

head hits concrete and deviated instinct were 2010.

You looked like you enjoyed Martyrdod. You may have fell on me a few times.

Alexis:
Graf Orlock was 2010

[Human-Demise]

Scott:

head hits concrete and deviated instinct were 2010.

You looked like you enjoyed Martyrdod. You may have fell on me a few times.

Alexis:
Graf Orlock was 2010

substitute graf orlock with the ahna show at the rat shack then.

[shakehurst]

in chronological order

WAR HERO’s second last show at The Chateau Noir, January 28
SWANS at The Rickshaw, February 25
A CANADIAN WEREWOLF IN…’s last show at the Chateau Noir, July 28
AHNA at the Moon Tower, September 3
Vancouver Noise Fest at 1067, September 24 and 25
WOLBACHIA at The Chateau Noir, October 26
HAGGATHA at The Rickshaw, November 25

I wrote about them in detail here.

+ my first show on guitar (not bass) with BURNING GHATS at the Biltmore, December 25

[reece]

Doom was pretty money, and the rainfest after party show ruled.
chaos in tejas was enjoyable.
mayhem was rad as hell
converge was sweet.
brainoil was weed as fuck existench.
nxdx was so funny.
every show on tour was so fun, saw contagium a bunch.