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Sound and Fury organizers issue statementObviously by now you've heard what happened at Sound and Fury 2010. Festival organizers have now sent us the following statement:
Hello everyone! We here at Sound and Fury wanted to clear the air about what happened on Sunday night and why the fest was shut down after 2 days of amazing bands and fun.
Based on what we saw ourselves and were told by others, here’s what, as best we can tell, happened: During Backtrack’s set, one person was dared/challenged to take his motorcycle into the venue and ride around. We were immediately alerted, and for everyone’s safety, security escorted the person out while he was still on the cycle. Once outside the security guards wanted the person to get off his cycle in order to speak with him. Seeing this some onlookers encouraged the person on the cycle to run as he might get in trouble if he stayed. As he attempted to flee, security reached for him, some of the bystanders considered the act to be a hostile one and a mob began to surround security. Joey and Ray immediately called the police. The primary concern was for the safety of the attendees and because of the “mob mentality” that was being witnessed (thrown trash cans/bottles/punches), before the situation got any worse we decided to shut down the show.
At the end of the day, no one was hurt or arrested and property damage was minimal (one broken window). The staff, venue, security and police were all absolutely incredible to Sound and Fury as a whole. Their actions helped to stop any potential fight that could have broken out, which would have caused unwanted repercussions for all parties involved with the festival (promoters, bands, venue, attendees).
We want to apologize to all the kids and bands who made special efforts and traveled so far to be there for the weekend. We were very sorry to see that the weekend ended as it did. It crushed us to see months of work and anticipation get flushed down the drain in less than 20 seconds. Realize that it is just two people putting on this fest and we are held directly liable for anything that happens.
Rumors and hearsay will exist, but based on all the information we have gathered, this is pretty much the extent of what happened. We choose instead to focus on the positives of the weekend, most importantly that the first two days went by with minimal incidents, proving that as a scene, we can put something like this together.
Sound and Fury is an amazing opportunity for us as a community of hardcore kids to get together and have fun at a perfect location. Fighting, assumptions, or petty disagreements will only ruin our chance to recreate this event. It deeply hurt us that someone thought this would be alright to do.
We are hoping to reach a compromise with the Earl Warren Fairgrounds so we will have the opportunity to host Sound and Fury 2011 at such an excellent venue. You will see us again next year.
-Joey Cahill and Ray Harkins
Kataklysm snubbed by MegadethI can't believe that members of Megadeth would be like this (sarcasm comes through in print, right?), but Canadian death metal band Kataklysm has issued the following:
"Megadeth: we are big fans but after the stunt the pulled backstage to one of our members, we see what they really are, one of our guys was picked up on the same cart that had Mustaine and others from theire crew to be transported backstage (he was ASKED to join the cart by driver) they drove 10 meters and Megadeth stopped and got off said they wont be on the same cart as 'everyone else'...that's real metal, boys."comments(23) | post comment | permalink
don't use the copy machine!Do copy machines store any of the image data they're copying? I've actually wondered about this after copying a few private documents in the past few years. I always forget to look into the matter further. But then I saw this video and...
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Saturday, February 20, 2010@8:34:19 PM
Revocation - guest entry #3Revocation (Relapse Records) recently hit the road for a U.S. tour with The Binary Code and Hypno5e. Since I haven't been writing much in the way of blogs recently, we thought we'd have Revocation's Dave Davidson (guitars, vocals) contribute some guest blogs during the coming weeks.
Well, the Metal As Art tour has finally come to a close so this is my last update in our series of Lamblogs. When we last left off we were stuck in Yuma with the fate of our van still unknown. We decided to rent a minivan so we could make it to the next couple of shows in Cali so we crammed what we could into our new chariot and headed to L.A. After the Ramona show we found out that our van was all set so we back tracked to Arizona and then booked it to Oakland, it was a busy day to say the least... The last few shows on the West Coast were cool my favorite being Portland since Voodoo Donuts was around the corner from the club. Now I had never been to this establishment before but I've heard many a tale of its deliciousness so I went on a mission and got a dozen. I think we ate 9 of them in the van immediately after I opened the box. Needless to say they were fucking incredible, my favorite being the glazed donut covered in captain crunch berries, dear lord I felt like a fat piece of shit but it was totally amazing.
The rest of the tour went pretty smoothly for the most part. The "no shower off" that Phil had entered towards the beginning of tour was really taking a toll on the rest of the band however. When Phil and the other two dudes from the Binary Code were in a room together for an extened period of time the smell would get really, really pungent and by pungent I mean that it smelt like homeless people having sex. I gotta give them credit though cause they all were troopers and stayed true to not showering or changing their clothes even after their t-shirts were developing salt deposits. It was a filth ridden clash of the titans but in the end Brett caved and showered in Jersey, Phil was the next to crack and showered when he got home so Todd came in 1st for the big win.
Unfortunately, due to a gnarly blizzard that dumped 30 inches of snow on Baltimore and New Jersey, our Friday and Saturday shows got canceled so we ended up just getting wasted for two days straight in Jersey with the East Of The Wall dudes. We headed home to Boston to play the final show with The Binary Code and it was good to be back and have those dudes play on our home turf. The show was one of the best of the tour, our whole crew came out, many beers were pounded and much foolishness ensued, a fitting way to cap off a ridiculous tour. Well that's pretty much it, hope you enjoyed our tales of the good, the bad and the smelly. Thanks for tuning in.comments(6) | post comment | permalink
Sunday, January 31, 2010@1:40:18 PM
Revocation - guest entry #2Revocation (Relapse Records) recently hit the road for a U.S. tour with The Binary Code and Hypno5e. Since I haven't been writing much in the way of blogs recently, we thought we'd have Revocation's Dave Davidson (guitars, vocals) contribute some guest blogs during the coming weeks.
What's up guys? It's been a little while since our last update so here's what's been happening on the Alcoholism as Art tour. First of all, our drummer Phil plus Bret and Todd from the Binary Code have entered into a "no shower off" for the rest of tour. The rules are simple...no showering, no deoderant and no changing clothes except for socks. The first loser buys the other two a round of whiskey shots and the one who makes it the longest gets dinner and drinks bought by the other two. I'll keep you guys posted on this contest as it develops.
After the St. Louis show we headed south and played a bunch of dates in Texas. The night of the Dallas show we decided to have a boys night out with all the bands so we hit up Vinnie Paul's strip club after the gig. We rolled up to the clubhouse around 2 am not realizing that it was only byob and all the booze stores were closed. We all had a pretty good buzz on so we figured fuck it we'll get wasted inside somehow. Luckily we found an unopened handle of vodka that someone had left behind on one of the tables. Needless to say we were totally annihilated by the time we left. A random dude in the parking lot offered to give us a ride back to our hotel which we happily accepted in our drunken state. When we rolled up to the spot there was a gaggle of prostitutes smoking cigarettes outside which our new found friend tried to solicit. Things got a little weird when their pimps showed up and our chauffer pulled out a gun. He assured me he had everything "under control" but I had witnessed enough entertainment for one night so I promptly got the fuck out of there and went to bed.
We found out our gig in New Mexico got canceled so we decided to make the 20 hour trek straight to LA the morning after our gig in Amarillo. We were about 5 hrs outside of LA when our van decided to shit the bed again on the highway. This time we had the pleasure of being stranded in the middle of the fucking desert. It took about 4 more hours for us to finally get towed to a mechanic shop in Yuma. The fate of our van is unknown at this point and we heard there is a brutal tropical storm raping Southern Cali right now. Stay tuned to see if we make it out of Arizona.comments(8) | post comment | permalink
Monday, January 18, 2010@4:05:32 PM
Revocation - guest entry #1 Revocation (Relapse Records) recently hit the road for a U.S. tour with The Binary Code and Hypno5e. Since I haven't been writing much in the way of blogs recently, we thought we'd have Revocation's Dave Davidson (guitars, vocals) contribute some guest blogs during the coming weeks.
Hey duders, Dave from Revocation here. We're about a week into the Metal As Art tour with Hypno5e and The Binary Code and are currently on our way to St. Louis. Tour started off a little rocky due to our rear tire exploding on the highway on the way to the first show. The shrapnel from the tire somehow managed to wrap around our tailpipe and bend it about 90 degrees in the wrong direction. Luckily, we were able to change it and make it to The Knitting Factory on time. The NYC show was killer and it was awesome to see The Binary Code and Hypno5e rip it live.
The next show in PA was pretty good and after the gig we decided to drive to Buffalo to try and avoid the oncoming shit storm of snow descending upon NY. Unfortunately, our attempts to beat the blizzard failed and we ended up getting blasted by now at 3:00 am, so we pulled off to get gas and try to find a cheap motel. To make matters worse, the van wouldn't start up after we finished gassing up. Luckily Phil has some mechanical expertise and crawled under the van and bashed the starter into submission, along with the entire undercarriage of the van in the process. We've been repeating this ritual ever since...
Upon waking up the next morning we heard from the Binary code that their van had been completely totaled on their way to Buffalo. Apparently some old dude lost control, spun out and smashed into them. Their van ended up grinding the guardrail and was leaking coolant everywhere. Needless to say they missed the Buffalo show, but thankfully everyone made it out of the wreck unscathed. They rented a minivan and are currently back in business so props to those dudes for soldiering on.
We played Chicago last night and so far it was the best night of the tour. All the bands are really hitting their stride and a bunch of people came out and raged. We also got to sample some of the culinary staples of Chicago while we were in town. I'm not really a deep dish guy but the other dudes wanted to get some so we checked out this place that supposedly had the original or something. It was pretty good but so far the best meal of tour was at this metal themed hamburger joint called Kuma's Corner. Bands: if you're in Chicago check this place out, I recommend the "Darkthrone." It's got fucking goat cheese, chipotle peppers and pico de gallo. That shit was amazing. Anyway, that's it for the food blog portion of the tour diary. I'll prolly post some more food related entries if we end up eating at any other cool places... So yeah, come hang out with us at these shows. Hopefully there'll be no more van flips. Peace.
a quote worth pondering"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
- John Adamscomments(17) | post comment | permalink
Wednesday, December 09, 2009@1:32:47 PM
if you looked like Mortuus, you'd be angry tooclingy Marduk fan gets body-slammed @ 1:16
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Hey duders, Dave from Revocation here. We're about a week into the Metal As Art tour with Hypno5e and The Binary Code and are currently on our way to St. Louis. Tour started off a little rocky due to our rear tire exploding on the highway on the way to the first show. The shrapnel from the tire somehow managed to wrap around our tailpipe and bend it about 90 degrees in the wrong direction. Luckily, we were able to change it and make it to The Knitting Factory on time. The NYC show was killer and it was awesome to see The Binary Code and Hypno5e rip it live.