Review: Dillinger Escape Plan 6/10/2006

#27
Saturday June 10, 2006
Dillinger Escape Plan
Haste the Day
Necrophagist
KC's, Fredericksburg VA

So this was originally to be one of my 4-shows-in-3-days HORSE viewings, but of course they dropped off of everything in June, so fuck 'em. I decided to just work all day (I really need money) so I didn't even leave for Fredericksburg until 8pm. I would have liked to have seen some of the earlier bands (Cattle Decapitation, Full Blown Chaos, etc.) but I was happy with what I did see. In the future I need to check out Dillingeresque From a Second Story Window and The Number 12 Looks Like You. Also, I really thought I would never go back to KC's though it was well worth it.

First up for me, Turko-German speed metal monsters Necrophagist. They had a pretty small crowd, but everyone up front was really into them. Their drummer is so fast! It was crazy! This is the second German band I've seen recently...weird.

I had looked up both the directions and the lineup and left both right here next to the computer at home. D'oh! So I went to drink a ($1.75!) PBR and wait for whoever was next. It turned out that it was Haste the Day, whom I haven't seen with their new frontman. OK, so in spite of my complaints about Christian singing drummer bands, I do really like Haste the Day. I like the Underoathesque sung parts and the fully metal breakdown parts. And several of them are really cute (mostly the brothers). I almost didn't recognize their bass player without that horse shirt he wore every other time I saw them. I also liked their new frontman better than the old one - he was also a better 'singer' than Jimmy and he didn't talk as much (not that there was time in a 25 minute set.

I thought people would come streaming in from all over for Dillinger, especially as they're apparently trendy now. Oh and you know who I did see? That guy from Baltimore that I HATE! The fat beady-eyed one who gets in the pit and just stumbles around like a drunk bull running into people. I hate that guy! So anyway, the first time I saw TDEP it was crazy and the last time I saw them there was fire-spitting, so I wasn't sure what to expect this time. I think the set list was pretty much the same as last time - mostly from Miss Machine with golden oldies '43% Burnt' (my favorite), 'Jim Fear' and a couple others from Calculating Infinity. I decided to stand in the back for this set because I couldn't find any earplugs and I really didn't want to be kicked in the head. I didn't see what happened, but not even 30 seconds into the opening song, one of the ceiling tiles (with duct attached) came down (which you can kinda sorta make out in the cameraphone photo above). So of course, Greg grabbed it and threw the tile into the crowd. And the rest of the band is just playing away like the always do. Then someone in the crowd got hold of the duct and started yanking on it pulling off some of the plastic stuff and spewing whatever the insulation stuff was (asbestos? fiberglass?). During a song break an attempt was made to push it back up into the ceiling but once Greg climbed up on a stack of speakers and hung upside down from the ceiling, even more duct fell out and another ceiling tile came down. They couldn't get the ducts to stay in the ceiling so it got ripped all to hell and during one of the later songs, Greg was wearing a big silver piece of flexible duct materials like a scarf. Too bad there's already a band called Total Fucking Destruction... I expected a good show from Dillinger, but I didn't expect them to literally bring the house down. Look out for a benefit show to help the poor show organizers whom I'm sure will have to pay for that. One can only hope that the video will show up on YouTube. (edit: YES!)(another)(43% Burnt footage)