I am excited and honored to offer you another stellar, fan-in-the-pit, firsthand Blood Tour experience. I’m as excited as Davey in this picture.
I know–that’s pretty excited.
Anyway, read on to join intrepid reporter and total babe Aja (aka crhiscornell) at the Minneapolis show!
On January 28, we saw AFI play in Denver, CO.
It was the most unbelievable and perfect experience of my life, so I’m having trouble figuring out what I can even say about it that’s objective and worth reading and isn’t just me, you know, smashing the keyboard and screaming. (That’s right. My purpose here is to Create Journalism. To Journalize. Everything contained in this entire Javey Truther blog is objective and worth reading.)
If you’re seeing them and don’t want any setlist spoilers, turn back now, because below the cut there be spoilers and REAL PUGET BLOOD! My sources (and, like, the internet in general) tell me there is a good deal of variety in the setlists for this tour, the fact of which alone I could fill a post about (THEY’RE ENJOYING BEING A BAND AGAIN THEY’RE SO BEAUTIFUL TOGETHER AAAAH), but you deserve the choice. So, more about my experience after the break!
If you want some Javey and band-in-general feels, spoiler-free, let me direct you to this truly fucking incredible interview, in which the band–not just Davey, folks, the other guys even speak–do a nostalgic backstory for each of their 10 albums, or this one about the band staying together forever and ever and ever and ever. Continue reading
Hello out there! It’s been a while. There is so much lyrics meta still to be written, so many conspiracy facts to be documented and shared. There is a whole series to be written on the album Material, and what I think it is: an apology. The unthinkable. Proud, angry Davey, who in 2013 described mercy as something he was too weak to find. Who we thought would never yield–whose righteous anger eclipsed every happy ending. Two and a half years ago, Burials came out and I thought, these poisoned hearts will never change. Javey is suffering, Javey is pain.
And then Davey softened. Davey apologized. Davey went home.
Interviews lately have been about happiness, the pleasure and joy of working together over 20 long years. Then there’s the Anointed video, which is the first in my memory of a long string videos about murder girls wherein the Javeys end up together at the end, on the same side of things, instead of dead. There is not a great online resource for the Material lyrics yet, so we are working on getting those up, so you can read the rapturous, religious, ridiculously sensual words yourself, and begin to percolate on your own conclusions.
We, your intrepid and delinquent blog runners, saw Blaqk Audio perform last night at the Bluebird Theater in Denver. Continue reading
Tonight, In the Whispers 