The Blood Tour

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.

“What makes you say 2005?”

So this is a question I get a lot. (By which I mean, maybe 2-3 times ever, and at least once by someone who did not actually ask or want to know the answer to or care anything about my Javey conspiracy theories, but for whom I answered it in great detail anyway.) “Yes, fine,” you all say, “we accept the lyrically, stage-ically, and photographically manifest evidence that the Javeys have broken up. But what makes you think it happened in 2005?”

Settle in, cats and kittens, and I’ll tell ya.