Club Insomnia
Lyndhurst, NJ
July 11, 1998
Doors to open at 8, first band to start at 9. Well we got there
(my brother and I) around 8, couple of people standing around
outside, Dink and Jeff (hi!!) anyways we waited and shot the breeze
for a bit, meeting up with some other new people (some might be
on this list as well, sorry I'm not that great on remembering
names) and just hanging around. 8:30ish Jess comes outside, she
said she was having a little fit and needed to just cool off and
hang, which was so cool cause I have never met her before. She
was soooo nice, I told her that Jay & his bro said to say
hi, which she totally remembered them and said she better see
you guys when they get out there!!! So doors open, get inside,
the club had to be about 50 degrees, 1st time I was ever in a
club and was actually shivering, they played some great music
before hand, opening up was a local band called BETTY'S TRASH,
now they were supposed to go on around 9 but the owner/manager
decided there wasn't enough people so he told
them to go on at 11 (or at least that is what I heard), they finally
made it on at about 11:30, and I'd say they played about 30 minutes
to long, they were really bad in my opinion, no way to even try
and describe their type of music so I'll pass on. JOJ finally
comes on around midnight, Scott in brown with some silly granny
wig on, Jess looked great, Robin and Claudia as well. I felt bad
cause this club is a real shithole, the stage is only about 6
inches off the floor and as long/wide as a big couch, Jess stayed
on the floor alot being there wasn't much room between the drums
and where she could stand. The first song Jess came out to yell
at Jeff and broke the mic, so the band kept
playing while she got it fixed. Below is the setlist I took
show will post it if they are on here.
1. - Devil
2. - Poor Impulse
3. - American Made
4. - Horrible
5. - Cumdumpster
6. - My Cat
7. - Swollen
8. - Working w/
9. - Girlscout
10. - Super Sadistic
11. - Lollirot
12. - Covet - didn't play - i think
13. - Angels - didn't play * my setlist says angles, guess Robin
was in a rush
The show during wise was great, Jess ragged on Dink and Jeff a bit about Gidget Gein who had made an appearance much earlier in the night but was gone before soundcheck even. Scott, excuse me SMP, and Jess playfully jested at each other during the show. SMP also played "redman" by putting a red stocking cap over his face and played like that for a bit. At the very end the girls walked off and Scott stayed there for a sec and played the opening to "Thrift" which was pretty funny. Afterwards they all came outside, stood around BS'ing, taking pics and signing stuff (got my set list signed by all, woohoo). The club basically closed the minute they knew everyone was outside and then said that this town was eager to call the cops so we better move it before they come (some peeps were being noisy I guess and it was 2am) Can't wait to get my filmed developed I hope they come out, real bad lighting in this place. I was soo happy not only to meet Jess but the whole band!! Hoping to make it to the NYC show tomorrow night, not sure if its gonna happen thou.
OK so there is my attempt at a review, sorry if it's sorta crappy, sosume, at least its something about last night so far. Any questions, problems, allegations or complaints, send my way I guess!!