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We'll be playing Granville, Granville and mostly just Granville. Oh well, we tried. Maybe Cleveland if we're lucky.

Live at the Broadway Pub III and IV - March 31st 2006 and April 28th 2006 - These two shows both went pretty well. Robby stopped in for Born to Run during one of them. A sizeable crowd was present both times, with my parents appearing at the last show and Tim's dad there for the show in March. Extensive video was taken at both shows (thank you to Danielle Smith, Tim Drake and Kate Cochran Barr for filming) and is available on the extras page.

Live at the Broadway Pub II - February 24th 2006 - The shit was rocked again at the Broadway. We played a longer set than last time with nearly half of the songs being new ones learned in the last four weeks. In spite of this we rocked out through a Robby Runyan-less set. A large contingent was there to witness the event, including a large Mark Laughlin fan club. Irony: Mark Laughlin is the worst player in the band, yet he is able to draw people from around Ohio to come see us. I think it's pretty clear that he has compromising photos of the people in question.

Live at the Broadway Pub - January 27th 2006 - We rocked the shit out of the Broadway Pub. We killed not one, but two kegs of cheap beer and drew the ire of the Granville Police Department, ineffective as they were to stop the rock that was ongoing. Our set brought the house down with much singing along and cheering from a packed house. The highlight, without question, was when slightly-inebriated Robby Runyan stood in as The Boss on Born To Run and proceeded to rock out. It's funny how I don't have as much to write about after a fantastic show as I did when we sucked ass like at Relay for Life. Needless to say, we still hate Relay for Life, but we're also against cancer.

Greek Week Selection Thing - October? 2004 - We were playing a decent set, rocking and rolling through our classics. Then, of course, we had to be stopped. Since mere Luminarias were no match for our increased skill it took a truck crashing into a power line to stop us this time. That's right, the power went out and they told us to leave. Classic.

D-Day Pre-Show - October 9th 2004 - About the best thing we can say for this is that we opened for Ben Folds. Don't question it, just repeat it until you believe it. Kinda rolls off the toungue nicely don't it?

WDUB Streaming Kick-Off - Some date 2004 - This show went pretty well for us, though none of us had any idea what we were playing on a couple songs (Semi-Charmed Life anyone?). All in all I think it's safe to say that we're better than Bull Jive. I mean, how could we not be better than a band who is named Bull Jive. It's like taking candy from someone who is ill-equipped to defend their candy.

Relay For Life, Spring 2004- Where to begin? Ok, we understand that we're probably not the top priority of the RfL organizers and that's fair enough. We are most definitely not the best band at Denison. The night started off innocently enough. We got there at about 8:00 pm for our 8:30 time slot on the stage while people walked in a big oval for cancer (or against cancer, I'm not sure which one works here). So it turns out that the random guy with the guitar was already on the stage and had no intentions of relinquishing it peacefully. He ended up performing until about 8:50. So we went up on stage with our instruments (the organizers had told us that Amps would not be necessary) and produced the cleanest, crappiest sound you've ever heard. It took a strong power-thru just to get through Punk Ass Bitch, which just doesn't work without some distortion. Anyway, that's not the fun part. Beyond sounding like a church band and starting 20 minutes late, it turns out there was actually a reason the random acoustic guitar guy needed to get off the stage at 8:30, the Luminaria at 9:10. Even though that wonderful ceremony, moving by all accounts, started at 9:10, after our second song a representative of relay for life got on stage and politely told everyone to leave the gym. We protested and she relented, allowing us to play as people filed out to the stadium, way to go relay for life, way to go. They went out and we ended up playing for three kids, a professor with his wife, and Tim Cooper's parents. We went on bravely, until Mark got pissed and stormed off the stage. That was pretty much it. We now support strong opposition to Relay for Life in all its forms, we're also still against cancer.

Battle of the Bands - February 25th 2004 - We played in Slayter at the Roost, which was great. Our set included Say it Ain't So (as a crowd warm-up) followed by Punk Assed Bitch, Stacy's Mom, and Cleveland Rocks. The set went very well, but since advancement to the next round depended on crowd support we were doomed from the moment Gramma's Urethra (yes that's their name) showed up with the entire swim team and more. Another good experience in general, it was amazing to play the Roost and we played it pretty well.

Erg Sprint - February 22nd 2004 - A good outing for our first ever. We played a solid set of Stacy's Mom, Buddy Holly, Teenage Dirtbag, Say it Ain't So and wrapped up with Cleveland Rocks. The crowd was big at the beginning but thinned out as they realized what was going on. Good learning for us.