Entertainment / Gnsvl, Jax

We played Gainesville + Jacksonville FL June 26h and 27th. It's the first time we've gone there.

We drove into Florida listening to an overinflated description of Joy Divisions career talking about myth and legend. The same reasons it's been so hard for a breakthrough. Another small journey of small cities at night. Couches and hours on couches. We had no idea what to expect for these shows. The idea of playing another college town during the middle of summer is stifling.

We arrived in Gainesville, at the Atlantic, too early, cross the street to the Top and burn time in beautiful weather and clinging humidity. I can't remember the discussion.

In the Atlantic we take in air-conditioning, surrounded by Spanish portraits on black velvet in a broken black vinyl booth. The show is Blood-sucking puppets on Alien rap, a rave, us uncontrollably, pounding viciously at the moving crowd and biting 80's synth pop. We applied make-up like grease paint over glazed faces in the back of the van, it stays on for seconds. Always like foreign faces from out of town. The crowd is fantastic to us.
the line up:
Sarcastic
Oddknock
Entertainment
Girls on Film

We were taken for late night pizza by Electronic SubSouth, caught in drunken street hussle as cops like battalions sweep over streets. This is a town that becomes martial law and crazed herds at 2 am. We went to a hotel with a thick green pool, and slept.

I've seen pictures from this show, we look like crap. people stop using flashing....

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