Sheer Terror/Old Firm Casuals Weekend

Shows this weekend were really fun. We had been practicing for 2-3 times per week since October or November, practicing existing songs, writing new songs, working on lyrics together. We all had a lot on our plates, with work, families/marriages, BlackNBlue DJ nights etc. Every spare moment we had was spent in the practice space just playing songs over and over so we wouldn't totally blow it for our first couple shows, and it really paid off.
Friday night was at Thee Parkside in San Francisco. I got off work at 6 o'clock and raced over to the city in time to load in and soundcheck. This is a luxury for me, with Never Healed we pretty much just set up in someone's basement or a bar and play. I usually can't hear anything but the drums, I just have to watch people's hands to see if we're all playing together. After we soundchecked we had some time to kill before the doors opened so we just hung out.
Massacre Time played first, good hardcore from Sacramento area. Knife Fight came up from Southern California, fast hardcore with brutal vocals. Crowd seemed kinda into it, it wasn't really their usual crowd but they ripped as always. We went on next, I was pretty nervous since it was our very first show but we had practiced so much that everything was fine. We played all 12 songs and the response was pretty good, lots of friend's there to cheer us on. I was really afraid of messing up but we really locked in and didn't make any mistakes. Sheer Terror was awesome. Tons of people were packed in the room to see them, people started going off as soon as they started playing. Paul Bearer told lots of jokes in between songs and stories about his past experiences in SF.
We left for Anaheim in the morning with a few friends and got to the Chain Reaction at about 5:30. One of the bands had dropped off the bill so it ended up being Ruckus, us and then Sheer Terror. The crowd was mostly younger kids so it was nice playing to a different type of crowd. They seemed to like us which was nice. Sheer Terror was killer again, playing the hits as well as telling a lot of jokes in between. We drove straight back to SF from there and got back around 6:30, dropped off the equipment and merch and went home. Two shows didn't seem like enough, we all really wanted to keep going! We've got shows booked for June and then we head to the UK and east coast of the US in July. The best part of the weekend was feeling like all the hard work and practicing had paid off, the 3 of us play well together and we're only gonna get better from here.
Here are some pictures:



(Supposed to be posted a week ago but internet has been spotty)