Alkaline Trio Band • Page 183

break up with them

 

I saw Alkaline Trio last night for the first time since 2008.

Did not disappoint. As a gap show on their Coheed tour, I was hoping to get a longer set from them and they absolutely delivered on that hope.

Myrtle Beach opened with Private Eye, then played Mercy Me and Stupid Kid pretty early on in the set!

Alkaline Trio Setlist at House of Blues, North Myrtle Beach

 

damn! nice setlist

 

Apparently Coheed fans haven’t given Trio a warm welcome.

 

I’m sure it’s been fine lol

 

Well I’ve been going by the Coheed fan group on FB and it’s brutal lol.

 

I don't know how to tell you this, but a Coheed fan group page on Facebook is absolutely not indicative of actual humans physically at a concert

 

I long stopped going in ANY FB fan group lol

 

Multiple shows on this tour and I can confirm: it's been fine

 

NICE!

 

They were awesome last night. Really odd / cool setlist. They sounded great. Was so stoked they opened with Warbain
They also unfortunately swapped out All On Black for Mercy Me last night
which makes sense but was definitely a bummer but expected

Also as expected the least crowd reception I've ever seen for them

 

In Philly Matt dedicated Back To Hell to a heckler than proceeded to tell him to go fuck himself lol.

 

people like that deserve to be kicked in the face.

 

I guess a lot of Coheed fans might not like straight up pop punk a ton? I mean obviously there is some overlap but could see the proggy-adjacent folk not being into a sound like Trio’s?

 

I wouldn't call Alkaline Trio "straight up pop punk." Their style isn't the same as like... New Found Glory, for example.

 

I could easily see the proggy crowd not liking Trio and having some closed minded assholes in it unfortunately. An hour long set in front of a crowd that doesn’t care for you can be difficult, but I’m sure ALK3 is doing just fine and making good money by being on this tour.

 

Well yeah I meant more the song structures and instrumentation than the overall sound…like they were doing “3 powerchord songs” (not really but they weren’t exactly experimenting with chords and song structures early on at least haha) like Green Day/other bands labeled “pop punk” were except they were singing In dark tones about about self loathing and drinking and etc instead of masturbating or joyfully losing their minds haha. I can see that not really appealing to certain sections of the Coheed fan base I suppose.

 

yeah, i get what you're saying. Alkaline Trio doesn't have any big guitar solos so to that portion of the Coheed fanbase, I can see what they'd be bored by Alkaline Trio or whatever haha.

 

I feel like most shows I go to the crowd doesn’t care for the opener haha

 

AK3 is goth punk, and i'm all here for it.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlkalineTrio/comments/wex7mm/studio_time_in_january/

"Got to chat with Derek for a bit at that Pontiac, MI show and he said they’re aiming to start recording some tracks in January."

 

Matt was sick last night apparently, they did not sound good lol

crowd was into it though, definitely 0 crowd issues for Michigan’s date

 

Thanks for posting this. I’ve listened to this record a ton this year and it’s cool they threw in a few extras there and had some decent mini interview questions dispersed throughout.

Hope Dan revisits the Bygones again. I kind of feel like he’s recorded some covers with them now after that interview that haven’t been released.

 

They played Balanced on a Shelf in MI... ahhhh that was a big one for me.

 

Great performance of one of my fave ALK3 songs: