THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN MAKE EVERYTHING OK

I hate my job.  It’s one of those things where I sit there with crap to do all day long, and yet…I feel like I’ve done nothing.  It’s miserable.  And I still come home every day totally exhausted.  This past week was extra harsh on my sleep schedule with a whopping THREE shows to attend.  I saw Kreator last Saturday and Alice in Chains on Monday.  Come Thursday, I wasn’t even all that excited for the show I was most looking forward to…The Dillinger Escape Plan.  All I wanted to do was go to sleep.  But…they’re a fav, and I know they always put on a killer show, so I knew missing it was not an option.

Leaving work that afternoon, co-workers were asking me where I was headed.  I told them, not expecting them to respond to this “obscure” band name I was saying.  But then one guy was all  “Ohh….didn’t the drummer of Coheed and Cambria used to be in that band?”  Whoa.  I work with someone that actually knows SOMETHING about the music I like.  This never happens.  

There were two other shows going on in Manhattan that night.  One was Shrinebuilder/Wolves in the Throne Room for $5 over at NYU.  But…I’m not really into those bands.  I heard it was fun, though.  The other was WASP, which ended up being CANCELLED just a few minutes before the doors opened over some weird Meet-n-Greet mess.  SUX2BU!  Never a dull moment here in New York.  No wonder I’m so tired…

Anyway, after watching Krista of IWABO play in a Furby costume, and suffering through Darkest Hour, I finally got to watch the Dillinger boys tear it up…literally.  Much like the last time I had seen them, they were climbing on things, constantly jumping off the stage, and attempting to destroy the house speakers.  Always a sight to behold.  And yet, amongst all the debauchery, they still manage to play/sound better than pretty much any band I can think of.  Here is a live video someone shot of “Sunshine the Werewolf” from that night:

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The Dillinger Escape Plan: a band well past their peak, but still bringin’ it after all these years.  Well worth the pain of getting up for my crap job the next morning.  

They have an odd opening lineup for this tour, but if you’ve never seen them live before..go!  Even if you have seen them live before…STILL GO!  I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TO A SHOW, UNTIL YOU’VE GONE TO A DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN SHOW! Here are the remaining dates:

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Mar 15 2010 – Grog Shop Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Mar 16 2010 – Blue Note Columbia, Missouri

Mar 18 2010 – FULL METAL TEXAS 2010 – Emo’s Main Room and Emo’s JR. Austin, Texas

Mar 19 2010 – Teguila Jungle Lubbock, Texas

Mar 20 2010 – Granada Theater Dallas, Texas

Mar 21 2010 – Wired Live Houston, Texas

Mar 23 2010 – The Social Orlando, Florida

Mar 24 2010 – The Masquerade Atlanta, Georgia

Mar 25 2010 – Tremont Musical Hall Charlotte, North Carolina

Mar 26 2010 – Greene Street Club Greensboro, North Carolina

Mar 27 2010 – The Basement Columbus, Ohio

Mar 28 2010 – First Unitarian Church Phuladelphia, Pennsylvania

Mar 29 2010 – Ottobar Baltimore, Maryland

Mar 30 2010 – Chameleon Club Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Mar 31 2010 – Diesel Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Apr 1 2010 – The Eagle Theatre Pontiac, Michigan

Apr 2 2010 – Reggie’s Rock Club Chicago, Illinois

Apr 3 2010 – The Rock Minneapolis, Minnesota

Apr 6 2010 – Republik Calgary, Alberta

Apr 7 2010 – Starlite Room Edmonton, Alberta

Apr 8 2010 – River City Pub Revelstoke, British Columbia

Apr 9 2010 – Rickshaw Theatre Vancouver, British Columbia

Apr 10 2010 – El Corazon Seattle, Washington

Apr 11 2010 – Hawthorne Theatre Portland

Apr 12 2010 – The Boardwalk Orangvale, California

Apr 13 2010 – Glass House Pomona, California

Apr 14 2010 – U.B.’s Mesa, Arizona

Apr 15 2010 – The Compound Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Option Paralysis is out March 23rd!

-Elise