Married To The Church

For better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health I go to shows at The Church. I go when I am broke. I go when I don’t even have tickets. I go when I feel like shit. But there is nothing in those vows that says anything about enduring the ungodly sweltering hell of a church basement.

I get it. It’s punk. It’s cool. No air conditioning. Sweaty, hipster-punks moshing to Blacklisted or bopping to Passion Pit (before they got too cool and moved to the Mann Center). But sometimes I wonder if I will come out of the show alive. I think it might be a legitimate health risk to not have air conditioning in The Church. Maybe only a health risk for us elderly folks but a risk all the same.

The fact that I have yet to see someone pass out at a summer show at The Church is quite miraculous. I’ve seen fights, making out, drugs, weird dudes in weird hats and half naked girls but never heatstroke. I might be the first.

The fans, they so kindly provide, just don’t cut it. Sure, if you are lucky enough to stand directly in front of it you can catch a soft breeze but the people around you will give you dirty looks for hogging the breathable air. Otherwise, the fans just stir the oppressive air around.

Maybe I’m just not punk enough. Maybe I’m too old. But a vow is a vow, and till death do us apart. And death might just do The Church and I apart when I sweat my skin off at the next show.

Events

NOV

11.1 King Kahn BBQ/ Dum Dum Girls/ Teenage Whore Moans KFN Click for Tix

11.1 Gil Mantera’s Party Dreams/ Sweatheart/ Pony Pants JB Click for Tix

11.3 Islands/ Jemina Pearl/ Toro Y Moi FUC Click for Tix

11.3 The Very Best/ Javelin JB Click for Tix

11.3 Fuck Buttons/ Growing KFN Click for Tix

11.4 Girls/ Real Estate KFN Click for Tix

11.5 Pete Yorn with Alberta Cross EF Click for Tix

11.5 The Get Up Kids/ Kevin Devine/ The Life and Times TROC Click for Tix

11.7 Comeback Kid/ Mother of Mercy/ Grave Maker/ Dead Swans FUC Click for Tix

11.8 The Extraordinaires/ Dangerous Ponies/ Kill You In The Face/ Lux Perpetua KFN Click for Tix

11.18 Bishop Allen/ Throw Me The Statue/ Darwin Deez JB Click for Tix

11.18 The Jesus Lizard/ Noveller SB Click for Tix

11.20 Buffalo Stance KFN Click for Tix

11.24 Devandra Banhart with Luke Rathborne EF EF Click for Tix

11.27 The Disco Biscuits with SOJA EF EF Click for Tix

11.28 Jay Reatard/ 2 more TBA JB Click for Tix

DEC

12.4 Land Of Talk KFN Click for Tix

12.4 Ghostland Observatory TROC Click for Tix

12.6 Negative Approach/ Blacklisted FUC Click for Tix

12.10 Fanfarlo/ 1 more TBA JB Click for Tix

Johnny Brenda’s- JB

Kung Fu Necktie- KFN

Trocadero- TROC

Starlight Ballroom- SB

Electric Factory- EF

First Unitarian Church- FUC