 The
wait for tonight’s show seemed to have been
longer than ever as the show was suppose to of
taken place on the 15th November 2011 but a couple
of weeks before the show Matt Skiba added another
injury to his long list of injuries but this time
around it wasn’t a skating injury instead
his foot got ran over whilst he was out on his
motorbike and resulted in his leg being put in
a cast, a few months of rest and the Alkaline
Trio European and UK tour being put back by 6
months.
 We
arrived at the Electric Ballroom moments before
Dave Hause took to the stage and from the moment
he took to the stage and opened up with ‘Heavy
Heart’ right up until the moment he played
the last note on’C’mon Kid’
he had the crowd on his side with many people
singing-a-long and even the people who didn’t
know the songs that well were participating with
claps and screams.
Dan Andriano took to the stage early on through
Hause’s set to help out with ‘Time
Will Tell’ and ‘Prague (Revive Me)’,
and as soon as he stepped on stage he was met
with  loud
screams from the sold out venue made up of Alkaline
Trio fans who were ecstatic to see one of their
heroes on stage so early in the night, Andriano
and Hause worked well together with their acoustic
guitars and duel vocals and brought back good
memories of The Revivial Tour for myself and many
others.
Hause had a lot of time for the crowd tonight
and said special thanks to Alkaline Trio for bringing
him out on the tour and also a big thanks to the
crowd for being wonderful.
 Tonight
Alkaline Trio are out celebrating just over 15
years in the music industry and it is great to
see that they manage to sell venues out across
the country and the same familiar faces turn up
at each and every show to watch their heroes rock
out but part of me wonders how and why Alkaline
Trio have been selling out the same sized venues
for many years but have never had the opportunity
to headline arenas as they are one of the most
hard working and focused punk bands ever who should
be so much bigger and more popular than they are.
 When
the lights dimmed tonight the fans screamed loud
and Alkaline Trio made their way to the stage
to a set of music featured in the movie ‘Insidious’
with Matt Skiba pretty much imitating the dance
from the boy featured in the movie, moments later
Alkaline Trio blasted straight into punk anthem
‘We’ve Had Enough’ which was
followed up by classic songs ‘Time To Waste’,
‘In Vein’, ‘Tuck Me In’,
‘She took Him To The Lake’, ‘Warbrain’
etc.
And as the set progressed Alkaline Trio could
do no wrong as they were blasting out classic
songs one after another with their earlier material
pretty much dominating the set, the highlight
of the night was when they played ‘This
Could Be Love’ which is one of  the
most loved songs by Alkaline Trio fans and it
was nailed with perfection tonight with thousands
of fans singing word for word along with Skiba.
The later part of the set featured an 5 track
acoustic section which highlights the latest set
of Alkaline Trio work with their latest acoustic
rework album ‘Damnesia’ and also Dan
Andriano’s recent venture down the solo
acoustic path, Dan from the Dear And Departed
and Dave Hause both made guest appearances during
this section of the set with the chilling lyrics
of “Your Coffin Or Mine” closing the
acoustic part of the set.
Alkaline Trio came back on to play a two song
en core which featured ‘Cringe’ and
‘97’ which took us right back to the
early days of Alkaline Trio.
When Alkaline Trio left the stage I was left wanting
more as they put on such a great show which also
featured one of the strongest sets that I have
ever witnessed them play, they didn’t need
any special stage props just their trademark heart
and skull logo, basic lighting, drums, base, guitar
and their solid musician and friendship.
Dave Hause 4/5
Alkaline Trio 5/5
Review By Trigger
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