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Yet another rocking time was had. This time it was down in the Loop at Cal's Liquors with The Heavy Bombers and Blackout Dates! Posters photos and a video of Blackout Dates all documented for your future Nonagon fan-fiction inspiration.

Photos

Cal's is located in the south Loop just a couple of blocks from the Sears... er... Willis Tower.

No, they weren't filming a C & C Music Factory video outside of Cal's, just your average Chicago hole in the road with lots of blinding welding.

Tony hanging out.

Mr. Moneybags with Blackout Dates in the Background.

Blackout Dates

Jim on Bass.

Blackout Dates rhythm section.

The Heavy Bombers were second on the bill.

Brent from the Bombers.

I was too busy playing bass to take pictures of Nonagon while we were playing, so here's a shot of Tony's drum kit.

The rest of the photos are on Flickr.

Video

Poster

More details to come...

This was one of our best shows yet. The opening bands were good and we were playing, surprisingly, to a rather packed house. We love playing Quenchers. We also performed a cover of P.J. Harvey's "Dress" with minimal f-ups.

We played the Beat Kitchen with Phantom Works (hard, art-rocking, minimalist Chicagoans), Self-Evident (Minneapolitan purveyors of complex guitarcrobatics… SO good!), and Scotia Widows (energetic Chicagoans boasting the algebraic formula: X + All = SW [maybe?]). Lots of photos to look at.

Tony cannot hold back the tears of joy.

Scotia Widows were on first. The flyer for this night's show was designed and printed by Gina from the Scotia Widows.

Here's one of the blurry "night mode" digital shots that us bands love so much.

And here's a much more sobering in-focus shot of Nonagon.

A rare live show convergence of Nonagon wives.

Self-evident from Minneapolis.

Phantom Works ended the evening.

Nonagon cannot resist the siren's song of a post-show late night breakfast. That short stack is calling to you, John.

More disturbing breakfast photos band shots are on Flickr.

Here are a few blurry cameraphone photos from the show:

Jim and Tony. Jim is sporting the newly created band t-shirt we premiered that night.

No wonder not that many people showed up. They feared for their lives.

This was Robert's view of the Ruth Buzzy show. He was covering the door. $5 was apparently too steep for the Wicker Park preppies who popped in (as was $3 later in the evening).

The Ruth Buzzy smoke machine and some drum cases.