we're the only active screamo band in this country as of the moment and being in a scene saturated with either uber-anarcho crust punks or nyhc surplus, there really isn't any room for a band of middle class kids to play 11 minute songs where people cry and roll over the floor and **** while talking about their feelings. i mean, look guys, i really have nothing to say here since i haven't been to your scenes but since i seem to have a relatively similar problem, so i just thought it would be a good idea for me to share some stuff. there's only one group of people who organize DIY punk/hardcore shows here, and that's the group of people who make up the COT crew which i'm sideways a "part of". it basically sucks every time you have to play a show and you have to shoo your bandmates away because one is a pretentious ******* and the other is popular in the city's local non punk band circuit and has been seen on tv. i mean, yeah. i got into a small argument with Pete from As A Whole a while back, and it almost pulled the plug on all of CB's plans to play a diy show again. luck hasn't been so good for us here since people only take you seriously if you play either d-beat or beatdown hardcore or something. it's disappointing to know that it feels like so much of a big favor to end up on anybody's lineup. nobody really pays attention when we play, and when we do, it's probably either scene kids who end up finding the show in the middle of nowhere or the kids who think we sound like Converge or whatnot. i feel really bad being an anomaly in my local scene and seriously wish that i could have this band up there in the US instead of here because i'm sure that regardless of the fact that your scene may be small, you have a good community of screamo bands who tour all over the place and that's always something to look forward to. face it, we got nothing. all the screamo coming out of this country is either by me or one of my friends who lives 900+ miles away all up in Manila and can't tour.
oh yeah, andrew. francis here from caitlyn bailey
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