DETROIT!

We played our second show on Wednesday Sept. 14 at PJ’s Lager House in Detroit with E+ (Damon and Jonathan from Disappears’ other band with Luca on drums and Sara Jean on keyboard), and local band The Baptist Church.

It was another 5-hour drive from Chicago to Detroit. The weather was not as nice as when we drove to Bloomington the week before, we could feel that fall was coming, but it was great to ride with Jonathan and his fiancée Kate who organized the trip.

Upon our arrival, we stored the gear at the venue, went to get some BBQ food at a nearby restaurant called Slows, then hung out with a friend of Disappears, an amazing character named Chris Koltay, a sound engineer who lives in Detroit, has worked with Deerhunter and Broadcast among other bands, and has an awesome studio packed with instruments, very well-organized gear, and nicely decorated.

Then we returned to PJ’s Lager house to set up the stage. This time Luca let us use his huge Gretsch drum kit, and we played on Damon’s big bass amp again.

Craiger the sound guy told us a scary story about when he was once robbed by two men with guns… Strange things do happen in Detroit. We got a bit worried when Craiger disappeared in the basement ten minutes before we were to start our show. Luckily he came back, we played LOUD, and were gifted with Damon's crazy guitar sounds on DOOMSDAY (watch video on top of this page).

After the show, we met Greg Baise, a man who used to promote concerts and now has a radio show on Ann Arbor University college station and another one for American Apparel. He apparently appreciated our set a lot, as well as other young people on the audience, which made us very happy.

We were also very happy to see E+ live for the first time, and their show was awesome! Check out this video from their Chicago show last Sunday at Empty Bottle:

We spent the night at Chris Koltay’s house, didn’t sleep for long as we all went to bed around 4am. Damon, Luca and Sara Jean had to take off two hours later, as Sara Jean had to meet her family in Chicago in order to prepare her upcoming wedding. Jonathan, Kate and us stayed in Detroit until noon, visited Michigan’s largest used bookstore, cruised along deserted avenues, abandoned houses and an enormous decrepit train station, then drove back to Chicago in the afternoon under a beautiful sky. More tacos awaited us.