Dwell Assessment: Refused and Distillers play tiny membership present after climate nixes units at Sonic Temple Competition (5/19)
One minute you’re watching Foo Fighters play in entrance of 40,000 folks at Mapfre Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, and the following minute you’re just a few miles away at Ace of Cups bar watching hardcore veterans Refused and punk rockers The Distillers tear up an intimate venue.
That’s what occurred this previous Sunday (Could 19th), when excessive winds and space thunderstorms compelled the cancellation of a number of units on the final day of the huge Sonic Temple Artwork + Music Competition. Sadly, Refused and The Distillers had been amongst these bands left with nothing however time on their fingers.
I had run into Refused singer Dennis Lyxzén earlier within the day at Sonic Temple, telling him it was an actual bummer they weren’t going to get an opportunity to carry out, and he was positively bummed about it, too.
Then, hours later I used to be facet stage at round eight:40 p.m. watching Joan Jett & The Blackhearts after Sonic Temple doorways opened once more to followers following an early night climate evacuation. That’s after I acquired a textual content from Refused’s administration that the band was enjoying a small membership present with The Distillers just a few miles away to make up for the nixed competition units.
(Purchase: Tickets to Refused’s Upcoming Tour With The Hives)
Refused can be acting at 11 p.m. and Distillers at midnight. Realizing Foo Fighters had been occurring at 9 p.m. at Sonic Temple, we knew we’d need to miss the final a part of Dave Grohl and firm’s set to catch this impromptu membership present. So at about 10:40, after the Foos rocked about two-thirds of their set, we headed over to Ace of Cups.
Tickets had been $10 every, with proceeds benefitting the Ohio charity Girls Have Choices. By the point we acquired there, the place was already stuffed up with followers who had come from Sonic Temple after seeing discover of the present posted on social media, or space followers who had been at dwelling watching the sequence finale of Recreation of Thrones and weren’t gonna cross up this once-in-a-lifetime gig.
Simply after 11 p.m., Refused took the stage and introduced the hardcore, sending the couple hundred folks packed in Ace of Cups bar right into a frenzy. Inside a couple of minutes, Lyxzén was in the midst of the ground with the followers, a circle fashioned round him.
Over the course of the set, the Swedish hardcore heroes carried out a handful of songs off their basic 1998 album The Form of Punk to Come, together with the title observe, “Summerholidays vs. Punk Routine”, and the fan favourite “New Noise”. In addition they busted out the brand new music “Blood Crimson Till I’m Useless”.
Lyxzén additionally addressed the gang all through, speaking about social points and ladies’s rights, and expressing his pleasure in with the ability to play this gig after the day began out bleak with their competition set being canceled.
[See Also: Foo Fighters, System of a Down, Disturbed, Ghost lead 2019 Sonic Temple Festival]
After a couple of 20-minute set change, Brody Dalle and the remainder of The Distillers took the stage, kicking issues off with “I Am a Revenant” off 2002’s Sing Sing Demise Home, and delivering a set heavy on their 2003 album, Coral Fang, together with such songs as “Die on a Rope”, “Love Is Paranoid” and the set-closing “Drain the Blood”. Total, the band performed 13 songs, taking just a few requests alongside the way in which and by no means relenting as they performed into the early hours of the morning.
A day that was a little bit of a wash out turned out to be a memorable evening for just a few hundred followers that packed into Ace of Cups on Sunday evening. See our pics and a few fan-filmed video clips beneath.
Picture Gallery: Refused and The Distillers at Ace of Cups (click on to enlarge and scroll by means of):
All images by Oliver Peric