[ATTENDED: November 25, 2019] Ice Nine Kills
I was unfamiliar with Ice Nine Kills until my son started talking about them. Then his friend invited him to see a show at the Starland Ballroom on May 3 (Ice Nine Kills was not headlining–the lineup was Falling In Reverse, Ice Nine Kills, From Ashes to New and New Years Day). So I was a little bummed that he didn’t go to his first club show with me, but it’s much cooler that he went with his friend. He loved the show.
So when they announced that they were playing at TLA and headlining the Octane Accelerator Tour (a Sirius XM thing), I made sure we got tickets (even though it was a Monday night).
The show was (I’m exhausted just thinking about it) FIVE bands and started at 6PM (!).
The lineup was Ice Nine Kills, Fit For A King, Light The Torch, Make Them Suffer, & Awake At Last.
Since it was a Monday night, I knew it would be really hard to get there for the first band, so we decided we would assume we’d miss Awake at Last. Then on November 5th, Make Them Suffer (who are Australian) announced:
Unfortunately we have had some serious setbacks with immigration, and were unable to secure the visas we needed in time for these shows.
TLA said the show would go on at the same time which was great for us since it meant we would get home about 30 minutes earlier. I also figured I’d take my son for some good ol’ Philly cheese steaks before the show since Jim’s is just a few doors down.
We enjoyed out cheese steaks quite a lot and as we walked past the theater I asked the guy at the door which band was on. He said the second band was on and since we had plenty of time, we decided to go to Atomic City Comics (which is a wonderful store).
We headed back to TLA figuring we’d be in the middle of Fit for a King. But as we walked in, they were between bands. The woman at the merch table said that ice Nine Kills was up in ten minutes! We’d missed all of the opening bands! (more…)
