BLOODYMINDED wishes to warmly thank everyone who played at, attended, put us up after, handed us compact discs, tapes, videos, etc. (which will take a while to get through!) during, and/or generally supported the three shows that we just finished. We had an amazing, amusing, intense, and draining trip. My voice is suitably shot…
-- Ypsilanti (Detroit) -- Elbow Room -- Tuesday November 11 --
Redrot - Ryan (Rotbrain / Creep / Drudge / Ghoul / Corpse / Fleetwood Vomit Monster / Speedway Metal Crusher)
Hive Mind - Grey (Ear-Destroyer / Low-End Theory Master / Bass-Bomb)
Dead Machines - Olson and Tovah (Suitcase Noise Master and Mistress - heavier than in August - excellent flyer!)
DJ Aaron Dilloway (Master of Napalmed Peel Sessions and 8 RPM Dub-Sludge - thank you for the gracious mail-order support, too!)
[Observations: Nice and loud - A small but vocal, and enthusiastic, crowd - It was very hard to keep a straight face - Sorry, Olson, but at that hour, a second encore seemed too extravagant - P. S. - What the fuck…Birth Refusal "Gacy Kills Boys 666"? Why don't I have this? Is it a rebuttal? Aaron + Grey: Thanks for letting us have a sleep over party, again. Hippy Hash rules!!! It is a food…]
-- Brooklyn – Northsix -- Friday November 14 --
Kyle Lapidus - Ignivomous (Thank you for the booking and the promotion)
NTX + Deth Fur and Diamonds - (special guests who popped up???)
Sickness: Chris (Thank you for initially offering to get the show set up, for the intense noise crush, and for the overall weekend support)
Navicon Torture Technologies - Lee and extended crew - Tim/Dan (major support and promotion - really sorry that Sunday did not work out)
Slogun - John + Chris and Bryan (F.T.W. / I.U.A.Y. / 13 / R.B. -- Crowd-baiting, lug nuts, and the real deal -- T.C. / P.E.)
+ Chris: SKM-ETR (Thanks for popping back down to the USA - what happened at Customs?)
Jonathan and Suzie (For trekking in - and for hanging out in Chelsea on Saturday)
Alex - The Concrete Womb (Good to meet - again)
Peter Messina - Hydra / Beg for Eden / The Shipwreckers (VERY good to talk)
The Coeur Noir Letterpress crew (Thanks for the tour on Sunday)
Marlene - and Baby Dickers - (For making the trip - for videotaping - for being generally awesome fans)
++ Of course, Pieter Schoolwerth, for handing over his apartment, for playing synth, and especially for providing an incredible reason for us to be there in the first place.
[Observations: A pleasingly full room - people from all of my walks of life - the crowd kept screaming - we had a good balance of intense power-electronics and on-stage banter]
-- Providence -- The Sickle -- Sunday November 16 --
Peter Lee - Force of Nature Productions and Dark and Tranquil Place (for the persistent booking effort)
Steve and The Sickle staff/residents (for putting on the show - on such short notice)
Chris (for the high voltage sound)
Karlheinz - and Ariel Salomon - (Once again, Karl brought the mighty wall of noise - Thanks for the PA re-enforcement!)
White Mice - While I am not typically a fan of costume bands, I enjoyed their psychedelic grind noise)
:Moment: - Peter Lee / Dominick Fernow (Prurient/Hospital Productions) / Jeff Plummer (Immaculate:Grotesque/Truculent Recordings) - (Thank you for, ahem, stretching out your intense set, and for your wry observations on European military fashions for today’s industrial music man -- Jeff - thanks for the crash pad - fish tank sounds are soothing, and Rhode Island crêpes are tasty)
Suffering Bastard - (A worthy replacement for Dropdead [maybe next time?] - ultra-sick, grinding crusty punk, with nice black metal touches - "Wait for it" – brilliant!)
[Observations: Extremely loud double PA - an amazing place to play - a full room with a surprisingly, and a satisfyingly, adoring crowd - less humor on my part, we got down to more serious power-electronics]
Our most sincere apologies to anyone that we left off of this message…
For BLOODYMINDED -- November 2003 -- Ed Knigge - Chris Mack - Isidro Reyes (in absentia) - Mark Solotroff
