Title Fight -- Lawrence, KS -- January 30th, 2013

[mankvill]

Title Fight was, by far, the craziest crowd experience I've ever been a part of at a show. More so than Ceremony and Origin combined. I know people always say stuff about how as soon as the band starts, people go crazy? That literally was what happened here. As soon as the band started the intro to "Numb, But I Still Feel It," the number of stage-divers was in the teens by the time the actual song started. It kept up all night long with tons of divers, moshing and surfers. The set contained mostly songs from their last album "Floral Green," but I'm super okay with that. Maybe the hugest response of the night came from "Secret Society." Title Fight is, like all good punk music, extremely bass driven and the sound and mixing was loud but still super clear. When they kicked it into overdrive like with "You Can't Say Kingston Doesn't Love You" and "Symmetry," the D-Beat drums came through and only facilitated more and more stage dives. It seemed like everyone took one last launch off the stage during the closing number "27" and although they ended after that, people stuck around wanting more. Short and sweet, just as it should be. One of the best concert experiences ever.

Opening for Title Fight was KC's Clairaudients. They're one of the more interesting local bands - their sound is very easy to take in but pretty hard to pin down exactly just what kind of music they are. There's elements of post-hardcore, blues, noise rock, shoegaze, melodic hardcore, and more. They blend this all together to switch seamlessly from rocking out to chillaxing in, and they do it all brilliantly. Really looking forward to seeing them again.

The first band to play was Sovereign States. They're the band that plays the cover show at a bar in town every Monday. Their original songs weren't so bad! In the pop punk/melodic hardcore vein, it was pretty good. When they tried to do other stuff, it kinda hurt a bit, but that might be because their vocalist was coming down off a cold. Huge props for covering Saves The Day's "At Your Funeral." Any band who does that gets an automatic pass from me!

Title Fight: 9.5/10
Clairaudients: 8.5/10
Sovereign States: 7.5/10

Title Fight:


Numb, But I Still Feel It
Secret Society
You Can't Say Kingston Doesn't Love You
Leaf
Symmetry
Loud and Clear
Safe in Your Skin
Lefty
Youreyeah
Like a Ritual
Calloused
No One Stays at the Top Forever
Head in the Ceiling Fan
Shed
27

[dcmetal108]

I want to see Title Fight at a venue with no barrier where people can dive.

[mankvill]

Some choice pictures from the show I took:

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[dcmetal108]

You did in fact dive right Manks?????

[Ommie]

Originally Posted by dcmetal108

I want to see Title Fight at a venue with no barrier where people can dive.

That's the ONLY way Title Fight should be seen. Seriously, there's at least two people stage diving at all times during their shows. It's awesome.

[mankvill]

Originally Posted by dcmetal108

You did in fact dive right Manks?????

The only people who will ever know if I stage dive or not will only be those who go to shows with me.

[Ommie]

Originally Posted by mankvill

The only people who will ever know if I stage dive or not will only be those who go to shows with me.

It would've been a lot easier to say "no."

[mankvill]

Originally Posted by Ommie

It would've been a lot easier to say "no."

believe whatchu wanna believe. maybe I never stage dive. maybe Jon and I are making a pact to hold hands and stage dive during Bolt Thrower at CiT.

[kalfitegrdan]

Really bummed I missed them at Reggie's last October. They sound like they'd be great in a small venue. Still glad I saw them at Warped last year though. The pit was fucking insane for them. All the hardcore dudes came out.

[300%_Density]

So since you were the oldest one there, did you have to drive all of the kids back to their parents house since it was a school night?