Nonagon Shows

This was an interesting mixed-bag of an all-ages show. It opened punk, moved to alt-rock, shifted to grindcore then ended with a great hip-hop performance.

The Oasis Youth Center

Get with the program Grayslake and get your ears to The Oasis. Every weekend there's a show here!

Noxious Neighbors

Fett the Younger

Lucid Dreams

Pickwick Commons

King Simi

Protip for young bands: if you are invited to play a show, stick around and support the other artists. All of the early bands missed the excellent King Simi.

The Austerity Program has scheduled a super-rare Midwestern show for the exact moment that Bear Claw comes out of hibernation. It's all coming together, people!!

Facebook thang is here.

There are too many bands to list, but we will be playing at around 9:55pm. Here's the details about the event.

Our good friends at Illuminated Brew Works have invited us to play at their brewery. We will be opening for fire... literal fire... as in a bonfire.

Playing in front of a giant ROA mural and the Chicago skyline:

Let's take a closer look:

Look, Robert's kid actually came to the show:

Oh, there were also costumed mascot dancers:

Final night of the southeastward road trip. They tell us this might be an outdoor show (it wasn't)?

Here's the info from The Facebook:

$5 FIVE DOLLAR BUCKS

TERMINUS VICTOR
industrial post-rock

NONAGON
mathy noise punk Chicago style

DARLEEN
heavy melodic (feat members of That's No Moon)

FASTER FORWARD
We're happy to have FF joining us—this will be a reunion/farewell show for them. Make sure to come out early and catch their set and send them off right!

At this point in the tour I stopped taking pictures so there's not much to see here. Paul came down for the show and we went out for food afterwards. I ordered a horseshoe. It was not good. Sorry, Champaign, we love ya. but leave the fancy-gloop cooking to the masters in Springfield, Ill.

After an excursion to the Kalamazoo 10 Theater to catch the Mad Max: Fury Road Matinee, we headed down to South Bend. Oh look, another brew pub:

It was prom night in South Bend. Unfortunately, none of the attendees strolled into McCormick's for the show. Probably due to a lack of EDM.

The evening opened with The Rutabega:

Then us, Knife and Heavy Hand played. The evening ended in a whirlwind of reverb, sweat, and fire in the form of Daikaiju:

The following morning Garth fed us the greatest doughnuts we have ever eaten:

We are off on another micro-tour of the Midwest. First stop: Kalamazoo!

People may live everywhere, but did you know they pretty much brew beer everywhere too? Had to pay homage to the Bell's Brewery before the show:

Louie's Trophy House featured many trophies including this cow thing. I'm calling "fake" here. No way that ever existed:

Tony looks so good in antlers we are just going to call him "Tler" from now on. If you see him say, "Hi!"

Hey look, it's Knife the Symphony!

And here is Brown Company...

After a little game of knifey-crotchy we all slept under the stars:

Final night of Nonagon's upper Midwest micro-tour.

Minnesota Load-in! No, it's not slang for a prison move, it's an actual gear load-in... okay that doesn't sound any better:

Deleter:

Self-Evident:

Night number two of our whirlwind tour of the upper Midwest.

Mark Steven Hillstrom:

Technician:

Haunted Heads:

In which we began a weekend trek across the Upper Midwest. First stop Dubuque, Iowa:

We rode an elevator/train thing to the top of the bluff:

Eronel is a very cool space to play:

On the way out we did some hiking at The Mines of Spain:

This was a bit more nature than Robert is used to, but we all made it out okay. The same can't be said for Julien Dubuque:

Robert recorded a bunch of video of this leg of the tour. Check back in a couple of years once he has time to edit it all together and post it.