What was to be Kill Your Idols‘ final show this past Sunday night in Smithtown, NY, was shut down prior to the band’s set.
As Crime in Stereo prepared to play the second-to-last set of the night, several Suffolk County police cars began showing up to the Smithtown Lodge. The band stood by for approximately 10 minutes waiting for confirmation that they could begin their set, and then began to play “I, Stateside.” The song was then cut short at about the 1:11 mark, with the audible line of “these troubled states” ringing out from an a cappella crowd singing along.
The police as well as a Suffolk County fire marshall informed those in charge of the show that the venue was over its legal capacity, which was actually 49 due to the lodge’s lack of sprinklers and fire alarms according to the marshall.
Bands that did make it through their set included Splitting Headache and Capital, the latter of which sparked the crowd with back-to-back Burn and Dag Nasty covers, a wealth of material off 2006’s Signal Corps and a song off the forthcoming Revelation debut, Homefront, to boot.
According to a MySpace bulletin from On the Might of Princes, Kill Your Idols played later that night in the parking lot of a rehearsal space.
UPDATE: KYI bassist Paul Delaney wrote us with an update on what happened that night.
Source What was to be Kill Your Idols‘ final show this past Sunday night in Smithtown, NY, was shut down prior to the band’s set.
As Crime in Stereo prepared to play the second-to-last set of the night, several Suffolk County police cars began showing up to the Smithtown Lodge. The band stood by for approximately 10 minutes waiting for confirmation that they could begin their set, and then began to play “I, Stateside.” The song was then cut short at about the 1:11 mark, with the audible line of “these troubled states” ringing out from an a cappella crowd singing along.
The police as well as a Suffolk County fire marshall informed those in charge of the show that the venue was over its legal capacity, which was actually 49 due to the lodge’s lack of sprinklers and fire alarms according to the marshall.
Bands that did make it through their set included Splitting Headache and Capital, the latter of which sparked the crowd with back-to-back Burn and Dag Nasty covers, a wealth of material off 2006’s Signal Corps and a song off the forthcoming Revelation debut, Homefront, to boot.
According to a MySpace bulletin from On the Might of Princes, Kill Your Idols played later that night in the parking lot of a rehearsal space.
UPDATE: KYI bassist Paul Delaney wrote us with an update on what happened that night.
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