Spanish Love Songs - No Joy (August 25, 2023) • Page 44

I’ve purchased tickets to two shows that they cancelled AND never asked for my money back. I’M BUILT DIFFERENT.

 

This just reminded me of the tour with save face and camp trash where my wife and I were doing the Philly date then driving down to Virginia beach for a weekender trip to see them again and both shows got cancelled

 

That show had sold out in DC, but after it got cancelled Camp Trash hopped on a show with Queen of Jeans and Weakeaned Friends that night. One of the best shows I’ve been to.

 

The only time I’ve ever seen them was on the TWY anniversary tour and fucking Origami Angel and Save Face were the openers. Easily the best front to back show I’ve seen since the pandemic. I framed the poster for my office.

 

Hey, exact same situation here

 

Thinking about how they were up-and-coming direct support on those TWY tours, as the next guard of “growing old and disillusioned pop punk” or whatever you want to call it. Aside from those two plus Menzingers and Gaslight, how big is that thematic/vibe universe at this point?

It feels like the gap between fifth wave emo/new pop punk for 20somethings and the On the Impossible Past crowd is pretty wide at this point. I’m guessing they’re playing to Hot Mulligan and Oso Oso fans because there isn’t a huge “older and getting older pop punk/emo” scene

 

Went to 3 nights of that tour. Some of my favorite memories.

 

Topped it all off by still going to Virginia Beach only for my wife and I to get the flu and almost needed to be hospitalized, haha. Good times

 

So glad I got to see them play tonight. BFE is one of my favorite albums of all time. Also, I was expecting them to play that Killers cover but they switched it for Beer and Nyquil.

 

That's an enormous trade-off!

 

bizarre to me that they are still touring without a bass player. and most songs have three guitars. I've never seen that before lol

 

I think there is a lot more crossover appeal with Menzingers and Gaslight. Like anyone that listens to Noah Kahan or Zach Bryan would probably like both of those bands if they gave them a listen. I'm not sure that's true in SLS's case. SLS touring with bands like Hot Water Music and The Flatliners probably makes the most sense, unfortunately that market is small and older and are making shrewder purchasing decisions. I can say as a 42 year old who has been into punk music for 30 years, I almost never go to shows anymore, and when I do I rarely buy merch.

I was saying this in the Strung Out thread about them but SLS is a band that probably would have done well to sell out slightly. Polish up Dylan's vocals a little bit, write some bigger choruses, some more memorable riffs, a little bit slicker production. If they do that I think they could go either to the "folky working class punk" fanbase or the "aging emo kid" fan base. The question then becomes, do either of those fanbases spend money?

 

You’ve now said this two more times than needed.

 

Seeing now that there's a Cubs game in Chicago next Thursday, and I haven't gotten parking yet, whoops.

 

First time seeing them tonight and they ruled! Midway through the show I was approached by a couple in their 70s who it took awhile but i eventually recognized as family friends of my ex who I used to see all the time. And that’s how I learned my ex’s dad’s longtime friend is the uncle of a member of Spanish Love Songs

 

@kbeef2 that post is an absolute rollercoaster

 

Buddy try processing it in real time while SLS is in the middle of playing Buffalo Buffalo

 

Great show last night.

 

Are they still not going on until 9:50?

 

Yeah, last night was doors at 6, show at 7, SLS on around 9:55 and done at 11:00.

They've refined the setlist a little bit from the first few shows (dropping the Killers cover for "Beer and NyQuil" and moving "Clean Up Crew" to the penultimate spot are both great moves) and they seemed like they were having a lot of fun. I miss them having an actual bassist on stage though. I get why they do it, but backing tracks for bass is a pet peeve of mine [points at username].

 

Show was fun. Admittedly I haven’t listened to the new album more than once, and was equally there to see Oso Oso play One Sick Plan, but seeing the BFE songs for the first time was good.

Turned my ankle in the pit during Buffalo so apologies for Irish goodbyeing @natefoundglory as I went home to ice it lol.

 

Certainly listen to the new album more, it's very very very good

 

Mexican Guitars, Irish Goodbye-ing, you're more of a Menzinger every day man.

 

Why is there no bass player out of curiosity?

 

Shortly after No Joy came out, they said he was stepping back from the band — no details, just personal reasons from what I remember. It might have been right before a tour, and I assume it was easier (not to mention saving them some money) to just use backing tracks instead of hiring a touring bassist.