June 4th Madball, Wisdom in Chains, Reign Supreme

So I guess I'll start telling some stories from my east coast trip with Chris. So after getting on the plane in Kelowna heading to Calgary, Chris picked me up from the air port and we headed to Jeff and Sarah's house. When we got there Courtney and two cute dogs were waiting to hang out and Sarah made an awesome dinner. Michelle came over as well as XLJ and we got ice cream and chilled hard. After awhile we went to bed, I slept in a room in the basement called the "rape room" and it was pretty much just that, a tiny cement room, but I still slept awesome. Early the next morning we headed to the airport to head to Newark, NJ. Thanks a lot Sarah and Jeff for treating us awesome.

After a four hour flight and loosing three hours we arrived in New Jersey. We needed to get to Long Island, NY for the show, we had half ass directions witch involved about three trains. After not to much confusion, other then me thinking we needed to get off a stop to early and ending up getting 7 11 hot dogs to kill time until the next train and way more money then we thought we made it to where the directions ended with a walk 30 minutes to the venue. We quickly realized we didn't know what way to go, after a really nice dude in Sheer Terror wind breaker gave us a ride to the venue we finally made it. As soon as we got to the venue we thought it was a bar and we weren't going to get in, we were crushed. After realizing it wasn't a bar and meeting a super nice bouncer who let us carry our bags in we made it just in time for Reign Supreme. There set was really good and kids were into them. I quickly realized this was unlike any show I'd ever been to, maybe it was just I didn't know anyone but Chris and the huge dudes that I definitely didn't wanta mess with. After Reign Supreme was Wisdom in Chains, these guys have bin a band I wanted to see but never thought I was going to get to so I was super excited to see them. They were unreal live and I think every time I hear "The Land of Kings" I get shivers. Kids weren't as in to them as Reign Supreme but was a great set none the less. After Wisdom it was Madball. This was truly a site, Madball in New York! Everyone was going nuts and highlights were definitely the little dude in the red shirt doing hand springs and flips through the pit, destroying everyone. After the show we realized we didn't know what way it was back to the train station and had to get to Brooklyn. After walking for awhile and asking someone for directions we got a general idea and started walking some more. It was pretty late like around 1 0r 2 and we were in what seemed like kinda sketchy neighbourhood when a SUV drove past us and stopped at a stop sign and turned off it's lights and no one got out. I thought we were getting jumped for sure, but we walked past, I was hella nervous, but they never did anything. After finally finding the train station the same SUV drove past yelling something at us but we couldn't hear what they were saying. After a long train ride finally made it to Tom Longs house in Brooklyn.