FACE TO FACE w/ DOWN BY LAW & THE ATTACK - ST PETE

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Face to Face is a punk rock band from Victorville, CA, formed in 1991 by frontman Trever Keith, bassist Matt Riddle and drummer Rob Kurth. The band rose to fame with their 1995 album Big Choice, featuring the radio hit "Disconnected" which received heavy rotation on KRQQ radio in Los Angeles and appeared in the movies Tank Girl and National Lampoon's Senior Trip. Face to Face officially split up in September 2004, allowing the band members time to focus on other projects. In April 2008, after a four-year hiatus, Face to Face performed together for the first time at The Glasshouse in Pomona, California. Since then, the band has continued to perform and has released five more studio albums to date.

When punk rock broke and bands cashed in on fashion trends, Down By Law stayed true to its ideals. While everyone else played The Forbidden Beat and wrote songs about farts, Dave Smalley was penning songs about feeling lonely and out of place, afraid and uncertain. He wrote about finding strength in being apart from the larger culture, and turning the loneliness and alienation of individuals into unity and mutual respect. It's clear that Down By Law is the only real claimant to The Clash's legacy, and that legacy is the admission that we may be isolated and lonely, we may be alienated and fucked up, but revolution can only begin in the mirror. We have to change ourselves before we can change the social structures that oppress us. Like Mick Jones and Joe Strummer before him, Dave Smalley acknowledges that politics stem from personal experience; we have our beliefs because of what we know and how we grew up. All politics are personal, and everything personal is political. And this is why Down By Law is one of the few bands that matter - the personal and political are inseparable in the music. The music is honest, and if you open your heart to it, these songs will reveal truths that no one else has enough guts to say.

Down By Law has changed my life since I became a fan, and only for the better. I can't count how many times I've seen them, how long I've waited to get in, how many miles I've driven to get to the show. I've never questioned any of it because once I get there, I remember why I showed up in the first place. When the lights go down and Dave pulls on his guitar and the first ringing chords of "Independence Day" come crashing through the amps, I feel free. I feel like I'm leading the charge of The Last Brigade through all the shit I've had to swallow, and like we really can change the world for the better. And this time, nothing can stop it.

The Attack brings punk back to the basics: short, fast-riffing songs about the social, music, and media-driven politics of today. The simplicity of punk has been lost on a divided underground driven more by fashion and ruled by icons that have become the same rock stars the punk movement rebelled against in the Seventies. Across the country everything punk, from all ages shows to Facebook pages, has become a popularity contest that defies the original intent of the alternative music scene. The Attack is ruled by a DIY ethos and driven by a goal: to re-unite the punks and skins and hardcore kids under the same underground flag. The Attack’s lyrics are true “shot from all sides” anthems. The Attack never panders to one political party or music scene, forming an opinion, agenda and sound of its own.

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Event Venue

Jannus Live, 200 1st Avenue North, Saint Petersburg, United States