Holy smokes, what a weekend. Prepare The Ground 2025 in Toronto was fantastic. Everything was worth it just to hang out with Chris from Burning Love and then see their reunion (2nd attempt) and sadly, final show. Chris is the nicest fucking person on the planet, he went out of his way to meet up, show us around a bit, let me in on some Cursed lore, hooked me up with some killer posters, looked out for me with my recording nonsense (always a mess), and in general, just being a kind human. The Burning Love set was GREAT, and huge, almost 50 minutes. Everyone got their money's worth for sure. Hopefully you guys dig this video, it's a good representation of the show, audio was a bitch, has to merge 2 different sources but it all worked out in the end.
Other things of note: Kowloon Walled City played Friday and were amazing, and they did a Shallow North Dakota cover set on Saturday with guest vocalists which was KILLER. If you don't know Shallow North Dakota, you need to. They were a pummeling, abstract sludge punk band from Hamilton, Ontario. Loud as fuck 3-piece featuring the bass player from the last version of Cursed. Their singer died a few years ago from Cancer, I believe. Lets see, Young Widows were great, Kylesa were great, Alaskan reunited and were great, Midwife was great, Atlas Moth, Coliseum, No Man, Morne, Dismal Aura etc etc...I know I'm missing a few. The whole trip was a blast.
So awesome you got to go to this. There was a repress of the 1st Shallow north dakota album awhile back and through that I got in contact with Dan and ordered an og press of the 2nd SND album and Dan threw in a bunch of extras including the pic disc of blackout at sunrise. Dan's also an awesome human and SND and Crux of aux are well worth everyone's time
Yeah Dan is totally a cool dude, even though he ghosted me on a Cursed soundboard recording that he promised me, but oh well lol. And I agree, crux of Aux isngreat
Hey man, thanks, it was a blast. Hmmm, well, Coliseum, Young Widows and Fotocrime were all playing the fest, and they are all from Louisville. Chris is good friends with all of them, Sect just played Louisville a few weeks ago and all those dudes were there, so I think he was just shouting them out for that. You around Louisville man?
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So awesome you got to go to this. There was a repress of the 1st Shallow north dakota album awhile back and through that I got in contact with Dan and ordered an og press of the 2nd SND album and Dan threw in a bunch of extras including the pic disc of blackout at sunrise. Dan's also an awesome human and SND and Crux of aux are well worth everyone's time
Great vid. Very cool that you got to be there. They gave a big shout out to Louisville. Do you know the connection?
Yeah Dan is totally a cool dude, even though he ghosted me on a Cursed soundboard recording that he promised me, but oh well lol. And I agree, crux of Aux isngreat
Hey man, thanks, it was a blast. Hmmm, well, Coliseum, Young Widows and Fotocrime were all playing the fest, and they are all from Louisville. Chris is good friends with all of them, Sect just played Louisville a few weeks ago and all those dudes were there, so I think he was just shouting them out for that. You around Louisville man?
Ah I see. Yeah, that's my hometown!
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