- Show Reviews
- Me Without You
w/ ACE TROUBLESHOOTER / TWO THIRTY EIGHT
Septemeber 17, 2002
Ottobar - Baltimore, MD
I passed up seeing Thursday to go check this show out, a good choice if you ask me. And I have to thank my friend Sarah for bringing it to my attention in the first place. The first cool thing was the surprise that Two Thirty Eight was playing that night too, which is god because they rocked when I saw them play with Element 101. They opened up to a sparse crowd of people, and pulled of a decent set nonetheless. The next two bands were local hardcore misfits, The Fall Line, and uhmm.... I don't remember the other one. Fall Line was the better of the two, but they both weren't great to begin with. I found out that Me Without You was the same band that I had gone to see last Halloween where they all dressed up like the Misfits and covered a bunch of their songs. After learning this, I was really siked to see them do they own material. The drummer was one weird guy though, wearing a rain slicker with the hood on all night long... that along with this full beard was a little bit scary. But as soon as he hit that kit it was like an animal ripping apart a heap of flesh. He was one of the strongest points of the bands, only exceed by lead singer Aaron's bizarre stage presence. He talks and shouts the lyrics while meandering around on the stage, half the time not talking anywhere near the mic or just having it pressed upon any part of his head except his mouth. He was very simple and light-hearted inbetween songs, saying stuff like "this is a great area, there's a 7-11 and subway right down the street where you can go after you watch us play," and "i dont like this song that much, but we play it at every show anyways." And the pinnacle was when he draped a towel over his head during the middle of one song and walked back up to the mic singing through it, and reading crumbled pieces of paper and throwing the ripped up pieces into the crowd. Bottom line: go see this band, they're a riot. As for the headliners, Ace Troubleshooter, well... I didn't care much to listen to their pop-punk carbon copy tunes, and neither did anyone else in the place considering there were only like 20 some people left in the club after Me Without You.
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