Music
🎶 last saw Haste the Day when they finished their going away tour at home in Indy. This ought to be fun. Hope they bring Jimmy Ryan back up onstage for a little more vs. #FF23
🎶 time for Prayer for Cleansing which is kinda a BtBaM encore, sorta. Maybe? Not really. #FF23
🎶 Sound went out for a little bit during Between the Buried and Me’s set and they just carried on because they are pros. #FF23
Also, it’s kinda awkward to restart a song when it could be like a 17-minute song.
🎶 Very excited for BtBaM. Surprisingly, this will be my first time seeing them. Rumored to be playing all old stuff, tonight. #FF23
🎶 Ok, I heard a lot of chatter about Callous Daoboys so checked them out. They’re having a ton of fun. Bonus points for electric violin and tenor sax at the Shed Stage. #FF23
🎶 There’s been someone scoring stage dives this weekend, and it’s been hilarious and awesome. From her post in the #FF23 community:
Now I know some if you think I’ve been a bit harsh with my scoring but I have some high standards. The things I’m looking for are distance. If you don’t make it past the first or second row is it even a dive? Style. No floundering. Looking like a dead fish isn’t gonna get you anywhere. And hight. Use those legs people you have em for a reason.
These are the medals she has yet to award:
🎶 today is “local day” for me because I’ll be going to the event and set with Haste the Day, seeing Trenches, and (just learned this on Friday) one of my coworkers is in Plea for Purging. #FF23
🎶 my one regret so far is not seeing HolyName. Somehow missed that they were at the pond stage. #FF23
🎶 it’s both funny and awesome to see these other #FF23 attendees be like “whoa, who are these TFU folks, they’re amazing” and also “wow the Demon Hunter guy got on the stage with Living Sacrifice” etc.
🎶 Ryan Clark said Training for Utopia hadn’t performed together in 24 years. Now they’ve released another track and expect to do this again. #FF23
Lineup was the same except with the addition of Don’s son on guitar.
The “uniform” they chose was hilarious.
My view from the stage side:
🎶 Sadly, as with Underoath, I think I’m no longer the target audience for Zao. For both, the first few albums were incredible (up through Liberate te ex Inferis for Zao), but just haven’t landed for me much since. Still a fun performance, though! #FF23
🎶 was hoping Living Sacrifice would do the 2 drummers setup again, but that’s ok. #FF23
🎶 “Harpsichord-core” says Chris of Becoming the Archetype, as he asks Pastor Seth Hecox to play the intro to the next track. 🤭 #FF23
🎶 I was curious because I heard shed-stage music coming from the pond-stage, but it’s apparently a lesser-known local band called FAÜLEN. Will need to check them out. #FF23
🎶 this will be my first time seeing Becoming the Archetype in person. They will likely not being playing my favorite track O Holy Night #FF23
After them: Living Sacrifice & Zao, who I have seen multiple times, including multiple times together.
Then: the TFU reunion I’ve been hoping for!!!
🎶 Mindforce very much has the “New York rap but actually it’s hardcore instead of hip hop” vibe. #FF23
🎶 Like @mileszs@ruby.social I like to find non-black band shirts. Kudos to With Blood Comes Cleansing for a pink one! #FF23
🎶 For some reason I can’t think of, Norma Jean are not as chaotically frenetic in their performance as they were 20 years ago 😆 #FF23
🎶 Hopesfall demonstrating some of that “post-“ goodness, and they seem like the most (musically) sophisticated act today. #FF23