Hey everyone -

We ARE playing Vendetta Festival in Denver on Saturday.

Friday - Sept. 18th

So, I had Paul from the band [syndika:zero] backing me on this show. It made more sense since he was here locally and it was way cheaper than flying Rachel/Malice in from Flagstaff, Arizona.

Paul and Cindy came by to pick me up since I was in a car accident two days prior that apparently "totaled" my car. We made a run out to the airport after the required stop for Paul at Carl's Jr. Because Paul is obsessed with Carl's Jr. This obsession was documented when we got photos of Paul in front of an incredibly ornate Carl's Jr. in Las Vegas last year.

I heard that our East Coast tour for October as C/A/T and [syndika:zero] was intensely fucked up just moments before we left for the airport. So... yeah, lots was discussed on the way there - ultimately ended in us both deciding to "pull it" before either of us lost our ass playing a handful of shows to no promotion. Yay!!!

So, we got to the airport, I had a bag that needed to be checked that had merch and all of my toiletries. I know you can do the stupid "little plastic bag" for that, but my carry on was packed to the brim with gear and a change of clothes as a hedge against any bag losing, etc. Wow, was I smart there! But anyway, bag checked and all that.

We made it through security and then waited. And waited. Our American Airlines flight to Dallas was about 40 minutes late. YAY!

This was amplified by this flight having the most wheelchair load-offs I've EVER SEEN come off of a plane. Seriously did not help things.

We were in the air and facing an awesome 15 minute window to catch our connection to Madison, which was either the last flight of the night or potentially we could MAYBE catch one into Chicago and then into Madison. Maybe.

I spent $13 on some satellite internet crap and Dave from Cervello Elettronico who is an airline employee by day before he turns into Super Dave in the evenings and seduces all of the women - well he helped us out a lot over Facebook and told us what to do / say if needed.

We landed and literally had to RUN between two terminals with like 5 minutes to spare. Dallas has a weird train/shuttle thing and luckily as we ran up the train came! We ran down the stairs and were met by a gate agent who radioed ahead and they made some executive decision to still let us on the plane.

SCORE!!! We're goin' to Madison!!!

By now we were both pouring with sweat and got the "look of death" from everyone on the small plane - but oh well, wasn't our fault.

The flight kind of sucked since we were near the back and like everyone on the plane had to drop a #2 during the 2 1/2 flight. The plane reeked of the bowels of weary travelers by the time we landed.

Of course, my bag was "missing" but a gate person filed a report and assured me that by 4pm *at the latest* on Saturday I'd have my bag.

We also met up with Ryan who was our awesome ride from the airport to the hotel and then to the venue. Paul really wanted to go to Hardee's - which is the Midwest version of Carl's Jr. I'd already learned it was a cheap, cheap bastardization of the smiling star logo, but some people have to learn the hard way.

We went back to our room and ate the mediocre food and then Ryan took us out to the Friday night of Reverence.

Upon getting there we learned that everything was like 2 hours behind schedule - so we missed nothing.

Met up with Alter Der Ruine and then Iszoloscope and proceeded to get very, very drunk. This was compounded when we later met up with Delta 9 and had more shots than humanly possible.

I also met this cool girl name Preety from Detroit who was hanging around with us all most of the night.

Caught some of the bands, but was kind of bummed when I learned that Caustic pulled his set due to time. But, Delta 9 came on and rocked it and he's seriously someone I listened to like 10 years ago when I was in college and wandered around campus with a CD walkman. I loved finally getting to see him do his business live.

After that we somehow fit us, Alter Der Ruine, Yann and Matt in Matt's Honda Element and got a ride back to the hotel where we were all staying.

We all decided food was in order and went over to the Denny's in the parking lot and ate Denny's food at like 4:30am. Got back to the hotel and passed out around 5am.

Details on the next C/A/T release will be coming next week... it's a little different than what was originally planned - but will hopefully make most of you happy.

Hey everyone -

Our next event will be a set on the 2nd day (Saturday) of the Vendetta Festival in Denver, Colorado.

Pre-sale tickets are already on sale.  They are $15 for the day we play ONLY or you can get a 3 day pass for $50 (individual tickets are on sale for the other two days as well).

Pre-order tickets now!!

Kat will be returning to the live line-up for ONE NIGHT ONLY for this event.  (Malice and Dr. White have the night off).

Full line-up for that day is:

Terrorfakt
The Horrorist
C/A/T
[Syndika:Zero]
W.A.S.T.E.
Cervello Elettronico
Statik Sky

Hope to see you out there... we should have some info. on the remainder of the tour dates with [Syndika:Zero] very shortly.  Thanks for your patience.

-Ben
C/A/T