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"Flames ! are a bunch of fuck-wads who like to break things, especially p.a systems at volunteer parties. They also spit beer all over people and write songs about myspace.

Flames ! sont une bande de délinquants qui adorent mettre en mille morceaux tout ce qui leur tombe sous la main. Un instant, je vous parle plutôt de leur second projet, The After Party, On verra bien qui se pointera."

So,
This is the best blurb ever written about Flames!. Some of you may be wondering what the writer here is referring to. Pasted below is the verbatim text of an email sent to Pop after a something of a train-wreck of a show. I've hesitated to post this for some time now, but I think it's relegated deep enough into the distant past.

I maintain that the soundman (the writer of this email) was over-tired, delusional and that the stage players did nothing but rock-ass. I attribute the subsequent violence and destruction to the completely-fucking-exhausted-and-drunk-on-free-booze volunteer staff. In the end, no harm done. Surveying the wreckage with Dan Seligman after the show, I offered a vague apology to which he replied:

"That was pretty punk rock."

Hey Drew,


As you requested, these are the principal actors involved in damages to
Towers equipment:

Dane Mills; drummer.

- Deliberately threw the drummer vocal stand down at the beginning of the
set, dammaging the beta58 diaphragm and making a huge visible dent.

- Threw and broke at least 3 beer bottles at the venue, spraying beer and
shattered glass all over the equipment and cables and with no regard to
anyone else's safety (let alone the venue staff and take-down crew who had
to clean up).

- deliberatly emptied a beer into the right house PA, rotting the cone
and seriouly cutting down the speaker's life-span.

- acted with no regard to the equipment, the festival, or the venue

- Wanted to physically fight with me for shutting down the set.



Beaver; signer

- Deliberatly, violently, threw a vocal stand to the ground, dammaging
the beta58 diaphragm and making a huge visible dent as part of his set.

- Deliberatly threw a beta58 (maybe or maybe ot the same one) to the
ground.

- acted with no regard to the equipment, the festival, or the venue

All said, the band's recklessness and throwing beer everywhere during the
set incited the crown to do the same. This made for a serious safety
concern because of the proximity to the power distribution amp, and damage
to the speaker cones of at least three of the adamson monitors that got
covered in beer. A third microphone was similarily damaged but I did not
see who or how. There are likely other damages I did not notice.

This was certainly the most dangerous and destructive set I have ever
seen. I don't know what would have been the consequences for the festival
if someone was electrocuted or injured by a beer bottle. I know that I
share responsibility for the equipment and making sure no one gets
electrocuted as the main operating technician.


For the next volenteer show, here are a few recommendations;

We need security at the venue; especially if it is an open bar.
We should only give out beer in plastic cups.


For this show, Dane, Beaver and Ali's band should pay for the dammages (
at least 3 beta58 mics at about 150$ each) and hopefully our sponsor won't
noticed the beer in the monitors and PA.

Personally, I won't consider doing sound for any band with these people as
members without a written waver of responsiblility from the promoter, a
waver from the venue management, and without a security guard beside the
stage at all times.

Cheers, Dan