[DID NOT ATTEND: April 13, 2024] Jhariah / Pollyanna / Save Face
I saw Jhariah earlier this year open for Pinkshift. I loved his set so much. Everything about it was great. I thought my daughter would love to see him as well, so when they announced a show at Milkboy, I grabbed tickets for both of us (after discovering that she was allowed to be in the over 21 club as long as she stayed with me the whole time). Then it turned out that she was invited to a birthday party and she chose to go to that instead. Which, fair enough.
I already had a ticket for Swans for this evening, which I figured I’d blow off to go out with my daughter. When she opted for her party, I figured I’d go to the Jhariah show–I was more interested in it that she was. I really enjoyed his set a few months ago and would have loved to see him again, especially headlining.
Milkboy is a great venue but it is a massive pain in the butt to get to. I also started to think about how young the crowd would be for this show. Since I had just had surgery, the last thing I needed was to be in a crowd with people slam dancing and shoving.
So I decided to go to the Swans show as I had originally planned–the music would be louder, but much slower.
Pollyanna was supposed to open for Pinkshift along with Jhariah. But for whatever reason they did not play that show. But I really grew to like them a lot. So when they were announced as a last minute third band at this show I was super excited to finally get to see them live.
Save Face is a Jersey-based band who were signed to Epitaph but are now independent (which is pretty fascinating). I’d never heard of them, but apparently they did a song with Jhariah in September (which is really good), so that certainly explains the touring together business. They come from the screamo/post hardcore scene, although to me they sound a ton like My Chemical Romance. Their last Epitaph album features a guest vocal from Thursday’s Geoff Rickly.
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