Last weekend the Toughskins came up to the bay area to play two shows with us. Friday night we played at the Hemlock in SF with Hounds & Harlots. The Hemlock is a pretty small place with a bar and smoking room in the front and a performance space in the back. Mike from Pressure Point came down as well as some of my friends from Crockett. Hounds & Harlots were really good, you can tell that they practice a lot, really tight punk rock. They're looking for a second guitarist by the way. Toughskins played second, traditional American Oi with tough vocals. People got pretty rowdy during Toughskins set but everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. We played our set and had a pretty good response, things were getting pretty wild and I thought that a fight would break out at a couple points but it eventually calmed down. I left after we played and got home at about 2am and was back up at 4:30am to go to work. Worked a 12 hour shift then jumped in the car with my friends and headed to the Blank Club in San Jose.
Toughskins opened this time and were equally good as the previous night. The Forgotten played next and everyone was pretty into them. We went on at about midnight and at that point I was pretty delirious from lack of sleep but I feel like we pulled it off. I wasn't sure that people were liking it at first since they weren't moving around but we got a good response in between songs. It was kinda like a hometown crowd for Lars since he grew up in the area so lots of friends were there in the crowd. I met a lot of good people and the Blank Club was a good place to play. Here are some pictures:
From the Hemlock, photos by Jody Lyon:
From the Blank Club:
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