Thursday the 25th was the Children of Bodom show at Saltair. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many dudes with long hair. And they’re still charging 5 fucking dollars for parking, I thought it was ironic that when I got to the ticket counter they had a jar for tips. Thanks for providing the service of handing me a piece of paper though a window, you want tip then go ask the parking guys, they got my last $5.

Between the Buried and Me didn’t interest me too much, I’m not sure where they’re from but they seemed like…

Bummer. The Sep 16th – Rancid, Less Than Jake show got canceled because "The bass player broke his shoulder and was in the ER."

Sucks for me, I was looking forward to the show. But I'm sure it sucks more for Matt Freeman.

Buying tickets I noticed that Smith's Tix was pricing was $20+$9 in fees. 24tix was $20+$4 in fees. All the more reason to not to buy from Smith's Tix; they're a rip off and they give you the wrong time for the show to start anyway. My sister was literally brought to tears forced to wait outside…

I just happened to catch that Lewis Black was going to be performing here Sat 23 Aug but as soon as I found out I made sure I had tickets reserved for the show.

The show was a Kingsbury Hall, a good larger venue perfect sized for a show like this. I guess it could also be good for pop music style performances but I’m not sure how good the acoustics would be for a show like that. It’s usually for plays and other things that don’t have the intensity of pop music performances.

At the door into the show…

GBH, Whole wheat bread.
Perhaps the last show for a month or so GBH came to Utah with Whole Wheat Bread supporting. Not a lot of advertising for the show and really only old school punk rockers are familiar with GBH. They’re a great band but not really known to the teenage crew that grew up listening to Green Day.

First opener was Dirty Vespuccis, a local punk band. They were all right but not really too impressive, a guy I know would be coming down hard on them for the lack of complex guitar work, but that’s not…

Goldfinger at the Murray Theatre

Wow, where to start. I almost didn’t go to this show . I like Goldfinger, Less Than Jake, and Big D and the kids table, plus I want to see Suburban Legends. But I wasn’t in the mood for a show, it was one of those days I sat down after work and just couldn’t get off my butt and move. But everytime I let lazyness tell me what to do I end up regretting it so I dragged myself up and figured on spending $25 to chill in the back…

Flogging Molly
Saturday July 19th was Flogging Molly day at Saltair. I was determined to make it this time since the show sold out last time and I didn’t get to go. At Saltair the chance of selling out is smaller since it’s such a large venue; but as a venue I hate Saltair.

To start I didn’t buy a ticket before hand, I hate paying the additional 20-40% in “convenience fees” (Who’s convenience? Certainly not mine!), so I buy at the door as much as possible now. Saltair threatens to tow you if you don’t park in their lot…

Well I’m on vacation in Japan right now, and I was searching through concerts to see what was playing while I was over here. But it’s hard because not many Japanese users are entering events (come on step it up!) so I was searching through the homepages of a some Japanese artists and it turns that Sun 8 Jun, Biyuuden starts their farewell tour while I’m in country.

I like 美勇伝, they’re one of the few Hello Project groups left with worth paying attention to, and as expected their being disbanded to make way for another cookie cutter 12…

I was excited for the Saturday – NOFX, No Use for a Name, American Steel. It was the first time they’ve played here in a real venue and not as part of the Warped Tour in as long as I can remember.

To begin with the local ticket providers listened to what I said and lowered their “service charge” fees. Now instead of $7 its $4.50. But the retards put down the wrong time for the show as 6pm. The doors didn’t open till 7pm and the music didn’t start till 7:30. There wasn’t really anything to do other…

Well I got my sister to come to the Wed 16 Apr – The Bouncing Souls concert, she's a big fan of The Bouncing souls so calling her up and telling her they were playing was all it took.

Unfortunately work kept me from seeing the first opening band. I only caught the end and all I can say is that it's worth spending an extra minutes to check mic and guitar volume. Either that or the sound guy is just a moron, the music should have balance so we can understand the words being sung and not just hear…

This weekend was the first show in a string of punk shows I have been looking forward to, Sat 12 Apr – Anti-Flag, Street Dogs, The Briggs, Fake Problems at In the Venue.

It had been a busy day for me and while Anti-Flag is a good band I started to wonder if I should just leave it be and save my energy and money for the later shows like Bouncing Souls and NOFX. In the end I decided it would be nice to see a punk show after winter's string of ska shows.

I got in about 15…