KILLER SHOW!!!!
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Everlasting Godstopper | Tom Foolery & The Mistakes |Devilcake
Little Brother's
Thursday, July 3rd 2003

I first want to say it's amazing that I'm even posting this since I got to bed around 4 am. I all groggy and shit, but my body is not cooperating with the sleep thing, so I am up and barely functioning.... with that said:

Devilcake rocked the house last night at Little Brothers.

The night started off with me going to get dinner for Me, Maryann, MCB and E... (shit, I forgot her name) at Subways. However I get to the Subways and THEY'RE FUCKING CLOSED!!! WTF!!! So I had to go to Jersey Mike's to get everyone's steak and cheese sandwiches.

Got to the parking lot around 7:30/8-ish. MCB and Todd were already there. Todd showed me the t-shirts that he had made up and they were SWEET!!!! Black with a red Devilcake logo. They look awesome. (You should order one from Ian, you know. They're only $10. check out the killer logo at http://www.twistedzen.com/devilcake/.)

(I could go on about sitting around until 10pm but I won't. Nothing that interesting happened). We watched the downtown fireworks from outside Little Brother's. They were cool, but they shot off all the finale fireworks so low that I we couldn't really see any of them. We heard the finale though. :P

Everlasting Godstopper (no, that's not the jawbreaker from Willie Wonka. It's GOD stopper). They had a nice goth / death metal look about them. I have to admit the sound was good. We hired a girl named Tera to do the sound and she just fucking ROCKS!!! She's got mad mic skills. They brought in a few fans and that is good. They played for about 30 to 45 minutes. Not too bad I have to admit. The drummer had a rack-mount drum kit. He had cymbals all over the place, which was cool. He had a 10" or 12" china splash/crash thing which sounded awesome. I'm not sure where that sound would fit into the Devilcake realm of music, but I think I might have to get me one of those.

The great Tom Foolery and The Mistakes took the stage around 11:30. (I wasn't looking at my watch so I am completely clueless as to what time it really was.) They rocked the house as usual. They gave us multiple props which is totally cool. We're fans of them and they're fans of us. It works out well. They even dedicated a song to Nancy (our operatic screamer and Todd's wife). Nancy loves their version of Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' and they added it to the set list just for her.

We got on stage around 12:30. Tonight we pulled out almost all the stops. We had the coffin and cross (although I have to admit I never saw them in place or lit up... I was too busy putting together the drum kit). We had the smoke machines. Ian had a hat on. He had his wife do a special haircut just for this show... a Mr. T mohawk!!! I hope to goodness that _someone_ got a picture of it. I don't care who, just someone. Ian also wore a big black cape. MCB did some gothy corpse makeup. Todd was dressed as a butchering coroner complete with blood splatters. Me? I just wore black shorts and a black t-shirt. I sit behind the drums and ya can't see me anyway.

Gourley and Todd started off the show with Marshmallow. Just them two on stage which was pretty cool. The rest of the band went on when it was time to rock. And rock we did! The sound (at least from my seat) was great. Hopefully Tera was able to get a good mix fast since we didn't give her a sound check. (oops!)

I can tell you that I had a great time. I didn't get super tired. My equipment didn't give me pains. I stuck a big fuckin' cinder block in front of the double bass pedal. it usually moves on me during the show, but tonight it had now chance at all.

Ian was all over the place which was cool as hell. He was doing some excellent backing vocals (Todd too!). He pulled out all the stops when, during the breakdown of Chicken Nuggets Of Sin, he drank blood from a SKULL!!! It was sweet. I hope Steve's videotape comes out!

Everyone else was rocking as well. Todd's new amp sounded great with the cheez-o-keyz! As far as I could tell, he didn't have any of the cut-off problems which have bothered some of his performances. MCB and Steve were musically playing off each other in a fantastic way.

I think it is safe to say that this show was also the longest ever in Devilcake history. Todd brought in a tape deck (and Tom Foolery brought in a 4-track) which Tera used to record the show. The plan was to play every frickin' song we knew and then some and we were darn close. Below is the list of the songs we played. The order is all kinds of fucked up, but I'm pretty sure I got them all listed.

After the last song, Gourley said his usual thank you's to the other band and to Little Brother's. I got up and was milling around to mention the CDs and t-shirts we had for sale. But before I could do that, Ian got on the mic and congratulated 'the little drummer from Devilcake' (that's me... der!) on getting engaged. I thought was pretty fuckin' cool of him... and embarrassing for me. :P Then I got on the mic and mentioned that we had t-shirts for sale and also CDs for sale... however I was botching up the titles of the regular CD and the box set... after fumbling around on the names for what seemed to be a 1/2 hour, MCB stepped in an told me to sit down!!! ha ha ha!!!

After the show, it felt great to know that I didn't have to rush around and tear down the kit so the next band. I walked around and talked to Kyle from Tom Foolery. He swapped shirts with us which I thought was cool. His band has a show in New York next weekend and he was talking that he might wear the Devilcake shirt for that show. I told that if he did he HAS to get a picture of it so I can say that Devilcake was in New York!

There was one guy in the audience who kept screaming our name out (even during Tom Foolery's set) who said he was from Austin and was trying to put together some music festival. I don't know who he was or how legit he was, but he had his wife/girlfriend buy him a boxset and a t-shirt... and that for now is all that matters. We sold some stuff. Unfortunately, I think that is all we sold. Oh well. It's still money for the band fund.

I finally got the car loaded around 2am. I was hungry so Maryann and I drove through Steak and Shake. It was 2:30am by that point and all the bars had just closed. There was a car with two completely drunk guys in front of us. Hearing them try to place an order was a laugh. "I was want one... no, two cheese burgers with no cheese or onions... no wait, one with cheese and the other with no onions. No wait... one with two cheese and no and onion and... wait.' You can see where this is going. 5 or 10 minutes later the drive-thru dude had to tell the drunk guys to just pull around. The line was SLOW, but there were tons of drunk people ordering tons of food. I got home with my double-bacon cheeseburger, onion rings and vanilla coke around 3 or 3:30. And was probably asleep by 4am. Ugh....

Anyways, here's the killer setlist. Again, the songs are right... but the order of them is nowhere close.
(ed. - According to Todd who taped the show, the set list below is accurate and complete.)

MARSHMALLOW
WEINERMOBILE
PIZZA PARTY
CEREAL & BEER
HANDS OFF MY OREOS
DEEZ NUTS
SALAD BAR MAN
PIE HAIR PIE
BIG MAC
CHICKEN NUGGETS OF SIN
FRANKENSTEIN'S FRENCH FRIES
RED POP
SPICY BEEF STICK
SACRIFICIAL LEG OF LAMB
FRIBBLE
(encore)STROMBOLI FEVER

WE ARE DEVILCAKE!!! GOODNIGHT!!!!