ASHES dIVIDE

Last week Wednesday, Jody and I went to see our first live musical act together - yay so romantic!!  :)  The band is called ASHES dIVIDE, fronted by Billy Howerdel, who wrote all the songs and also played almost all the instruments on the album, and was, prior to this, in the band A Perfect Circle.  I of course just learned all this, but Jody had followed A Perfect Circle because it was fronted by Maynard James Keenan of Tool, and Jody loves him/them.  

Anyway, last week Monday Jody was checking out any new news on some of his favorite bands and performers, and I happened to go over when he was checking out Ashes Divide and I saw that they were playing in Winnipeg in two days, so we bought tickets and went!  It was at a cool little bar downtown called The Pyramid Club, and unfortunately there weren't many people there - Billy thanked everyone for coming to "their secret performance".  It was very cool though, and although loud and with very heavy bass, my throat and esophagus got used to the bass after a few songs, and their music was really very good (I've listened to it on iTunes since then and really like many of their songs) and I love watching performers play the guitar and bass cause it's incredibly cool for me to see how good they are at it! 

I called before the performance to ask whether I could bring my camera and they said yes, so of course I loved that!  It's not every day that I get to try taking photos of a moving band in super low light!  I had the ISO boosted to 1600 so all the photos have a super-cool grainy look, and I'm so happy with how almost all the photos turned out so it was hard to choose the best ones.

Before the band went on, we met a couple who told us they came to see the band for their friend, who was in a car accident a couple months ago and just recently emerged from the coma.  Ashes Divide is his favorite band and he had actually been, I think, fiddling with the CD in the car so the two of them could hear the band when they got in the accident.  Anyway, they had come to see the band in their friend's honor, and had both forgotten their cameras so asked if I could email them some photos of the performance to show their friend.  It gave me much more incentive to try to get some great photos, so I hope their friend likes them and I hope he's okay in the long run and hopefully is able to make a full recovery.

EDIT: I've decided to add a few more. Thank you to Jaimie from ashesdivideonline.com for finding my photos and linking to them, and for all the lovely things she said!!!