Fireside Bowl, Chicago, IL

with Helgeson Story and Kelly 18. Setlist: Absent, Nowhere in Line, I Fly When I Don't Dream, Now I Disappear, False Witness, It Won't Be Long.

Remember how last time we played at the Fireside Bowl I mentioned that the whole live show thing was about keeping the sound engineers happy? Well, ironically, the sound guy from our last show there was in attendance, but as a member of Kelly 18. There were supposed to be four bands on this one, but the fourth band, the Anti-Fascist Underground, apparently stayed underground on this Tuesday night.

Our set was on and off. We played second, and tried some of our newer stuff, to mixed results and the typical Fireside Bowl non-crowd reaction. Absent is our newest song to date, and we played it fairly sloppily. We all missed the same bridge, but at different times. The rest of the set was a lot tighter, especially a slower but very strong version of "Now I Disappear." Small crowd, but nice people (the other two bands were very cool and the Fireside people had the baseball All-Star game on in the bar after the show!), all in all a good warmup for the big Freeport show on Friday.