Taking Back Sunday Band • Page 314

Unreal that the reunion was 10 years ago. Saw them in February 03 (18 years ago! WTF) on Long Island at Sports Plus. Ah nostalgia. Always loved that they typically do B market tours and put on solid shows and it’s not packed. Feel like each album got better after ST so looking forward to what they do with the next one.

 

Sports Plus. My god.

 

Also wild to think I saw Straylight Run play their first show just 10 months later at the Knitting Factory. Breaking Pangea opened the show at Sports Plus, so Fred would be joining TBS a few months later. Huge year for emo.

 

They had a killer run of shows in 03. Wonder who promoted those. This was the only one I went to but it appears MCR, Thrice, and a few others played. I remember buying Fevers and Mirrors by Bright Eyes in the lobby of the show at was probably Looney Tunes selling albums. This was around my move from sad punk to sad indie. Ha

Also remember seeing Patent Pending play in what I’m pretty sure was the room they held birthday parties in. There were people wall to wall. Went to college with one of the original guys in Patent Pending so I was always at a few brutally long Long Island shows.

 

Sports Plus shows were insane. Feel like the fire department shut a few down.

 

I thought the TBS show was shut down but I found an article that made it seem likely played their full set. So I’m not sure if it was another show I went to.

 

I still try to catch at least 1 Patent Pending show a year on LI. Makes me feel so nostalgic for those 2003-2005 days.

 

The one I remember is The Used/MCR

 

Haha I was just coming in here to post that.

 

Best news ever

 

25 year confirmed

 

Excellent. I had a blast at the 20-year shows, but I definitely want to hear a more varied setlist.

 

Don’t worry, year 25 is coming up quick!

but thank god. Can they retire those 3 albums for a minute with Cute/MDS as the two exceptions so we can maybe see more than like 6 of the 18 songs on their set list from after 2006?!?

I can dream

 

Finally, we have new music on the horizon. Crazy that it has been almost five years since Tidal Wave. I don't believe they intended for it to be this long between albums. It's just the way the calendar fell and global events happened. Around the time they would usually start writing a new record they saw an opportunity to do the year-long anniversary tour instead. Immediately after that the pandemic hit. Looking forward to album eight. They've certainly had a lot of time to think about it.

 

Wonder what a new album would even sound like

 

I honestly don’t think we are close to new TBS music. They were just beginning to write in like Feb or March of 2020 then the pandemic happened and to my knowledge they have not been together as a full band since so we’re probably a good ways away from a new album.

Hope I’m wrong.

 

Is it mainly because I haven't been to many local shows in other areas, or is/was LI obsessed with like, 8-9 band lineup shows? Especially like 99-2005. I get value for money etc and/or giving smaller bands a chance, but come on.

 

I was supposed to go to this show but my parents wouldnt let me!!!

They played Looney Tunes in 2004 after Fred joined and they had to shut down traffic on that street because of how many people showed up and im pretty sure instead of playing in the store they ended up playing an acoustic set on the roof.

I cannot believe im having these thoughts during a pandemic but i kinda miss local shows in small bars that are like 500 people over capacity lol

 

Patent Pending playing at Castle Golf was a legendary show.

 

I was at this haha

 

Adam Lazzara looks back at Taking Back Sunday's "MakeDamnSure"

 

cant believe LN is 15 this month. listened to it for the very first time on my flight from new york to orlando for my HS senior trip lol

 

An obvious statement, but Louder Now was just so gigantic for them. I remember seeing them at Nautica in Cleveland, which is by far the biggest venue they ever headlined in Cleveland (5,000 cap). Sold out show with Angels and Airwaves (who were all the buzz at that time) opening for them. I remember it being so bizarre seeing them go from 600-1,000-2,000 cap shows to that - all within 2-3 years.

My older sister at the time, did not listen to anything remotely close to what I listened to, and I remember she even went out and bought Louder Now (and has since become a huge TBS fan and became more into a lot of the music that I listen to).