Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Tour with Downpresser Starts Next Week

A week from tomorrow we will be out on the road with our good friends in Downpresser, be sure to check the dates below or on our page for more info. We will be out until the 14th then we will be hanging at This is Hardcore for all three days so come and hang.

Also, keep on the lookout for "The Lower Depths" posters and cards, they were printed and shipped to us a few weeks ago, so keep your eyes open. We will be posting the artwork up here very soon, so keep patient. It looks siiiickkk!

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Back in the States - Tour w/ Downpresser in August

So yesterday was the final straw of our tour in Europe. We had a blast over there even though a lot of things didn't go our way. First off we would like to apologize for the shows that were cancelled (especially the Venice and Poland show) unfortunately we just couldn't make the drive to both of those shows with one driver and make it back in time to catch our flight back home. Despite what you may or may not of heard that is the real reason.

We're still very excited about Europe and we had a great time and met a lot of awesome people, expect us back in the future very soon. For those of you reading check out a few of the bands who've we have met over there, Cornered and New Morality. Both bands have helped us out a lot and we have managed to make god friends with those dudes when we were over there. Can't wait to make our way back and to see both those bands again.

Our driver Frank runs a record label and distro so if you live over there be sure to check his stuff out, or if you live in the states check out the bands he has put out and buy his stuff online. Crucial Attack Records and he also runs Not Just Words Records. Both labels have a lot of great European hardcore bands so check it out.

We will be leaving in about three weeks with our good friends in Downpresser hitting up the midwest and east coast a little bit. Check the dates below and if you live anywhere near the shows come and check it out. Downpresser is a sick band, they are next best thing out of California right now.
  • August 6th The Tower - Cleveland, OH
  • August 7th Inside Out Gallery - Traverse City, MI
  • August 8th The Eagles Nest - Milwaukee, WI
  • August 9th The Ghost House - Lincoln, NE
  • August 10th Mission Theater - Kansas City, MO
  • August 11th Smith Seven House - Memphis, TN
  • August 12th TBA - St.Louis, MO
  • August 13th The Murphy Building - Indianapolis, IN
After that we will be playing the Great American Hardcore fest in Boston and around that time we will be having our record release show in Syracuse. We are still working on that right now so check back in a few weeks for more info on when the LP is coming out and when the record release shows will be. Go pick up some records at the Reaper Records webstore.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Euro Tour Update: Yo Patat


We've committed treason im afraid, we have currently been undergoing a tour over in Europe and right now we have about one week left of the tour then we are flying home on the 20th of july. Right now we are doing pretty good but this tour started off with some rough patches, needless to say we are still having fun over here.

We drove down to NYC to leave for D.C. Turned out our connecting flight to D.C. was delayed. They told us that it would leave in plenty of time for us to catch our plane in D.C. to Brussels (Belgium). Well they were wrong on that one. We landed in D.C. about an hour after the plane landed.

So after waiting in the customer service line for over 2 hours we went to go talk to some higher up people for another 3hrs. They had told us that the next flight to Brussels was not until 6pm the next day, it was about that time when we landed. They could not hook us up with a place to stay so we were forced to sleep in the terminal for over a day until our flight the next day.

Luckily we got on that flight okay and landed fine. We were picked up by some of the dudes in the Setup in Brussels, loaded up the van with our gear and we went on our way to the U.K. (so we thought). We were all out of it, no one got good sleep really. We found out that our working papers never came in, which we need to play in the U.K. without having to pay the government. So we showed up at the border, instead of walking the bridge like most people do we went into the building. None of us had a game plan so we all told them complete different stories. They knew we were a band and we were detained for about 6 hrs. They had told us that we were denied and we had to go back to Belgium.

We heard that Have Heart was playing somewheres near by so we all hoped in the van and drove 3 hrs to go see them. We showed up and they had about 2 songs left. The show was outside, really weird vibe. Turns out there were bloc parties all over the place so after the show we walked around for a while. Couple of the dudes with us pretended to vomit all over pretty young ladies it was awesome (it was orange fanta i beleive).

We met up with our driver Franke and road Dawg Neils at the show, both dudes are awesome and we've been with those guys for the whole tour so far. We've played some really cool shows with New Morality and the Mongoloids along with a show with Cold World, No Turning Back, Dirty Money and others. That show was chaos, No Turning Back killed it for sure that night, such an awsome band and they are all great dudes. We also played a boat in Paris with the Mongoloids and New Morality that was pretty fun as well.

We have about a week left of tour, hopefully its smooth sailing from here on out. When we get back home we will be hitting up the road for over a week or so in August with our good friends in Downpresser from California, awesome band if you havnt already you need to check them out. Check the dates below and come out to the shows:
  • August 6th The Tower - Cleveland, OH
  • August 7th Inside Out Gallery - Traverse City, MI
  • August 8th The Eagles Nest - Milwaukee, WI
  • August 9th The Ghost House - Lincoln, NE
  • August 10th Mission Theater - Kansas City, MO
  • August 11th Smith Seven House - Memphis, TN
  • August 12th TBA - St.Louis, MO
  • August 13th The Murphy Building - Indianapolis, IN
We will be chilling at This is Hardcore fest for all three days, then we will be heading back home. We wont be playing much more shows outside NY until The Great American Hardcore fest. We have a couple of tours after that we will be announcing soon, just laying down the dates and what not, shits going to be cool.

Check back for more updates, hopefully we make it out of europe alive, if not its been fun playing in the states and we will continue as a european hardcore band but i dont see that happening. YO PATAT!

also we made a twitter account so if your on that as well be sure to follow us at -  http://twitter.com/Forfeit

-forfeit crew