The Lawrence Arms 7th Annual War On Xmas Tour

Thursday, December 9:
“DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK”
The Lawrence Arms
w/ Direct Hit! + Evil Empire
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Friday, December 13:
“BEEN HERE FOR YEARS”
The Lawrence Arms
w/ Broadway Calls + Catbite
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Saturday, December 14:
“SANTA SAID KNOCK YOU OUT”
The Lawrence Arms
w/ Elway + The Muslims
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3-day passes also available

Let's gooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

 

80% going to night 1, 50% night 2

Really wish this wasn't the same weekend as the ETID shows every year

 

I feel like they used to war on Xmas earlier in December and then since 2017 it’s been the same weekend.

 

Bastards

 

Crazy jealous of anybody who gets to go to this! Nights #1 and #2 are fantastic from top to bottom. Less enthused by #3 but that's just because I put Ellway firmly in the "whatever" category.

One of these years, I'll make it out there. My biggest hesitation is usually that I've just been to Chicago for Riot Fest in September and/or that my Christmas season is so busy that I quite literally don't have the time for travel.

But seriously. One of these years...

 

I've been wanting to go for years but ETID holiday show is just way more convenient and always the same weekend. Before that Menz were doing holiday shows the same weekend and I would go to those lol

I am very excited to do night 1 this year and I know I'll be sad to leave the next morning

 

Yeah, the ETID holiday show is usually pretty tempting as well! But never quite enough to get me to go all the way out to Buffalo. Haha.

The one show I tend to do annually is the Bosstones' Hometown Throwdown but that's just because I'm right in Boston. Hah! And even that one I go to based purely on the openers... Which is so hit or miss. One year it was solid front to back (Fishbone, Big D and the Kids Table, a Lost City Angels reunion, Andrew W.K.) and the year before or after it was just old Boston bands I had never heard of and like, the Queers. Hah.

 

First night was great. The band sounded good and played one of the more stacked sets.

The Devil’s Takin’ Names
You Are Here
On With the Show
Great Lakes/Great Escapes
PTA
Last Last Words
Recovering the Opposable Thumb
The First Eviction Notice
Quincentuple Your Money
Ghost Stories
Necrotism
Brick Wall Views
The Ramblin’ Boys of Pleasure
Slowest Drink
Margaret
Light Breathing
YMCA

 

Yeah last night was so damn good

 

Wild jealous of you all! How was Direct Hit?!!

Even more jealous of anybody who gets to go tonight! Hoping Catbite wins everybody over.

 

Direct Hit was good. No Maura and a standard set of songs. Good energy though.

Catbite was good, but not many people knew them. Pretty good reaction for them.

Broadway Calls had a really good reaction and was easily the best opener in terms of crowd reaction. They did their Menz cover which was kind of cool.

 

Set for night 2:

Quiet Storm
Porno and Snuff Films
Lose Your Illusion
Cut It Up
Stranger’s Floor
Pigeons and Spies
Metropole
Spit Shining
Intransit
Pensacola
Beyond the Embarrassing Style
The Northside, The L&L
Drunk Mouth
Seventeener
The Raw and Searing Flesh
The Disaster March
Like a Record Player

The band stopped and then continued Pigeons bc someone fell crowd surfing and had to be helped out.

 

Security blew it bad last night for that kid

 

Night 3 setlist:

Faintly Falling Ashes
Alert the Audience
Beautiful Things
Belly of the Whale
Deans Man’s Coat
A Toast
Right as Rain
Jumping the Shark
Chapter 13
Acheron River
Wishful Puppeteer
Boatless Booze Cruise
Nebraska
Hickey
The Revisionist
Evening of Extraordinary Circumstances
100 Resolutions
Encore = Old Mexico Way