Check the rest of what we’ll have going on in August below! The weekend of this show in particular is gonna be a three-day powerblast. 

Cincinnati’s Knife the Symphony will be coming through Murray to play Terrapin next Saturday, Aug. 5th, and they’re bringing Chicago’s Nonagon with em! They’re on the road in support of a new split 7″ on Phratry Records recorded in part by Mike Montgomery (ampline/R. Ring). This will be a night for fans of Dischord, SST, Touch & Go and the like! We’ll have Murray’s fav tagteam of Barely Blue and Bantha Tracks in the mix, along with a few Secular Pets songs to end the night. 

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Turns out this was one of the more bonkers shows we ever partook in. After one song by Knife, we got kicked out of Monnik for being too loud. Elliot did his best to scramble and get us to play somewhere and found a way for us to play on the floor after a heavy metal show at the Cure Lounge.

We ended up playing extremely late that night and, during the set, a wall fell on John.

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The took place in a typical conference room(s) in the University Student Center.

Usually bars will give band members two free beers, but in Northern Michigan you get cookies, veggies, dip and sodie-pop!

Tony setting up his drums. Drummers are lonely creatures.

Hey everybody, it’s Victory & Associates!

Victory and Associate’s midwest tour guitarist Ryan knows how to work the spandex. Let’s hope he never crosses paths with Spandy Andy.

We also made the local news!

No-noggin indeed!

Crunchy Frog was a night little bar on a strip in Green Bay filled with typical Wisconsin style taverns. From what we were told, this is perhaps the only bar in Green Bay where you can see live underground-type bands.

This was amazing. $10 all-you-can drink specials on Friday nights. Needless to say, this is the key reason why Crunchy Frog does not do live entertainment on Fridays.

Here’s Tony setting up his drums.

The opening band was The Ian Olvera Trio (they may have changed their name… they definately weren’t a trio that night). They played rock music and their set lasted over an hour. After which they proceeded to break down the drum kit on stage. I guess things move a little slower up north.

Paul made a surprise appearance. Thanks Paul! We played our set next (no pictures). Each song ended with complete silence in the room—barely even a smattering of courtesy applause. Oh well, you can’t win ’em all.

Next came Madison, Wisconsin’s Blackwell Beauties. They were a self-described power-pop band. I liked that a few of their parents were in attendence. Nonagon is, if nothing else, a family values band!

After Blackwell Beauties Beach Patrol played. We loaded up the van and took off before the end of their set. I know, I know… not cool, but, we were pretty exhausted and needed to wake up very early if we were going to return the rental van without penalty. At least we got to see Jim’s awesome vintage bicycle collection before retiring for the evening.