Syracuse Ska Forum

Just got back into Syracuse a few hours ago with RazSum after a long few days at Ska Weekend in Knoxville TN.

I'm suffering from serious sleep deprivation at the moment, so I'll spare you all the gory details. But basically, it looked like a great success, possibly with a higher turnout than last year. RazSum got an amazing response this year, playing on the Saint Tattoo/Jump Up stage on the blocked off street, playing between Deal's Gone Bad and Westbound Train (they took over when Stingers ATX got their flight cancelled). At one point, the entire street was skanking at once, which was quite a sight to behold. Lots of cds sold, the shirts blown out and 150+ kids added to the mailing list. We were initially unsure if we'd schedule Knoxville TN to the summer tour, but its a no brainer now.

My favorite part of festivals like these is meeting all the cool new people. Amanda from Boise, Idaho and the sizeable Detroit crew and the NJ Ska crew and the kids from all over the crazy place. Chicago was very well represented this year as well. Matt Wixson is CRAZY.

One of my favorite moments of a very long weekend is when Rick of I Voted For Kodos came up and gave Matt Wixson a big bear hug. I'm just very disappointed we didn't get a photo of that.

I give Ben a lot of credit this year for mixing up the genres a LOT more than past years. Big ups to Kristin for her help in that as well. Look for even more reggae next year.

RazSum and myself made a ton of new friends this past weekend like Tommi of Bomb Town and got to see a lot of old friends, like Obi of WBT and Jizzy of In The Face. We especially befriended a ton of Knoxville kids and we're really looking forward to seeing them again this summer.

BTW, Big D & the Kid's Table opened their set with a dub number and then their cover of "Little Bitch" by The Specials. Niiiiiiiiiiiccccccce.

Off to get some well needed sleep.

Duuude! I don't think you were still around, but after Catch 22 played, I was playing my guitar by my merch, trying to sell stuff. Rick and Lee from IV4K came over, and Rick said he wanted to do a song with me. I started playing their song "Where Are We Going To?" and all three of us sang it, the whole way through. It was amazing!

ska weekend was off the hook. in the crown plaza hotel friday nite had 28 rooms booked, and 47 saturday nite just for ska weekend...we had our own after party saturday nite, and were joined by the shakedown and some pietasters for some drinking festivities

You were there and we STILL didn't meet??????

haha we did meet. I was one of the kids who joined you guys for breakfast at that truck stop with chris and everyone...

guess you didnt put two and two together when i said i was Will from NJ haha.

Apparently not -- sorry!!





That was a big posse Chris brought in. Plus, I was distracted by the home cooked country biscuits, free coffee refills and Idaho potatos ...