I remember the self-titled coming out, being on the Bedlam Society message boards, and waiting up on mIRC for the Pulmonary Archery video to come out (with the wrong name haha). Watching these old videos makes my eyes well up. There was nothing like this before it, and there has been nothing like it since then. I remember seeing them at SCENE on Wade's 19th birthday. One of the best songs and best albums of all time coming from a bunch of kids in a basement in Niagara. Were divine intervention real, this would be the best evidence of it.
It's so weird finding comments only a month old in videos like these but always a pleasure. I didn't grow up with them. But when i had found them, it had made ties to my life. Early 2000's music hits different and make me feel nostalgic over friends i didn't get the chance to have
I can never imagine myself right now going to a show like this and moshing and screaming at the top of my lungs, but when I was younger that's all I wanted to do.
im where you were, im 18, its my favorite thing on earth, but its hard bc not alot of emo bands do shows anymore, and when they do its hard to find people to go with.
saw them play in a church basement in brampton when I was 12. I think it was my second show I ever went to, there was always all ages DIY shows going on back then.
Holy fucking shit! Thanks for posting this!!! Remembered me when I sae them in a shitty venue like this. These underground shows were the best ! Always! Saw them at the Rainbow In montreal in 2002... AMAZING!!!
Showed up in my recommendations. Thank you for filming and taking the time to post this. It's easy to forget how different it was to get footage like this 20 years ago. Technology wasn't like now. This makes me miss being young and going to the random small shows. Good times.
I remembering them playing in New Jersey, I think the first time was in boundbrook but the second time was at Bloomfield ave cafe right before or right after the first record came out. Sold out on a weekday and we knew every word. I don’t really know how they lost momentum after that, but it turned into the scene band/neon era shortly after and the shows were empty. Clearly it worked out for them in the long run
LOL I haven't heard that joke in at least 12yrs.. "Alexisonfire is a Mary's Bleeding Eyes cover band" I was at this show and if I remember correctly MBE played it along with Racecar, Policies and Procedures, Rise Over Run and maybe one more.. It was a LOOOONNNGGG show that's for sure. Last time I was at the Lodge some girl pulled the entire ceiling down in the bathroom trying to stash a bottle of booze.
@@Fozzie420 hahahaha she broke the toilet tank, not the ceiling! racecar and policies never played together because policies was pat’s post-racecar band. atmoi and katja definitely played this one and i think policies, too. i booked this show lol
