We haven’t even gotten to summer but old school thrash band Overkill has already booked a month worth of gigs for November as part of the second leg of KillFest 2010. Providing support on this tour are Forbidden, Evile, Gama Bomb, and Bonded By Blood.

Tour dates

11/5 – Montage Music Hall / Rochester – NY
11/6 – Crazy Donkey / Farmingdale – NY
11/7 – Club Hell / Providence – RI
11/8 – Sonar / Baltimore – MD
11/9 – Gil’s / Virginia Beach – VA
11/10 – Amos’ / Charlotte – NC
11/11 – Volume 11 / Raleigh – NC
11/12 – Hooligans / Jacksonville – NC
11/13 – Club Firestone / Orlando – FL
11/14 – Culture Room / Ft Lauderdale – FL
11/15 – The Masquerade / Atlanta – GA
11/16 – Peabody’s / Cleveland – OH
11/17 – Newport Music Hall / Columbus – OH
11/18 – Diesel Nightclub / Pittsburgh – PA
11/19 – Rocko’s / Manchester – NH
11/20 – Starland Ballroom / Sayreville – NJ

Sounds dirty, doesn’t it? Fortunately, the two aren’t related.

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Last night’s plan was simple – slide into The Newport 5 minutes before Everest went on (8:45), watch their 45-minute set, and be back home before the 11pm news started. It didn’t quite work out that way.

After Everest’s amazing set (if you go into listening to their music knowing that singer Russell Pollard draws inspiration from Neil Young, Jeff Buckley, and Elliott Smith, you’ll be well prepared), I ran into guitarist Joel Graves at the merch booth. Being the liner note reading geek that I am, I recognized Joel’s name from Dig’s third – and final – album, Life Like. Joel told me that I’m the only person that has ever recognized him from his short lived time with the mid ’90s alterna-rockers.
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