see alkaline trio live

especially when they play all the Goddamnit stuff (:

After the Nike debacle, I started feeling very ambivalent about Alkaline Trio. My husband keeps telling me, “They’re just boys, they made a mistake”, but that’s just it: they’re not boys, they’re intelligent men with sound opinions on matters like, for example, the welfare of animals. So why not extend that compassion to issues like child labour? I don’t know… I still can’t understand what on earth possessed them to jump into bed with Nike and I find it hard to stomach anyone who would be as stoked as Matt Skiba seemed to be when presented with his own pair of Heart and Soles. “This really provides some insight into who we are,” he gushed. Does it really? More than your music?

Anyway…

Ideally I would have liked to go to the show with a banner reading “Nike sellouts”, but since I didn’t have any time to get my act together, I determined that I would just stand there with my arms crossed, without ever applauding, quietly expressing my disapproval.

But by the fourth song, however, my foot was tapping. Damn the Trio and their impossible catchy tunes! Then they sang “Goodbye Forever” and dedicated it to Jerry Finn. My heart melted, I clapped my hands with enthusiasm. Well, sometimes you just have to forgive and forget, don’t you?

It was a good concert, no doubt. The band sounded super-tight, and Derek Grant is a pleasure to watch and listen to any time of the day or night! There was a great crowd, too.

Oh, and not a pair of Heart and Soles in sight (at least not on stage)... :)

I’m not mad… I’m just disappointed.

Alkaline Trio will be playing at Koko in London on 20 August, and I have two tickets. Woo hoo!

It will be my third time this April. Awesome

i saw them in an mcr concert and they were freakin awsome

they were phenomenal live. i got to meet/hug matt skiba, as well. he was sooo nice.