soundcheck
Natalie
PortmaN’s

shaved
rise agaiNst
head
Congress Theater, Chicago,

the fillmore,

Thursday, November 20, 2008

san francisco monday, july 21, 2008

According to Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath, the best

“I Don’t come to one of
thing about playing this
our shows if you don’t
homecoming show had
want to get your shoes
little to do with being, you
stepped on or catch
know, at home. “Dealing
an elbow every once
with everything at a Chicago
in a while,” frontman
gig is sort of being like
the bride and groom at a
Pharrell Williams has
weddwinagr,n” esda.ysMtahyebsei nagllet rh . e
“Everoyuog n h e’hsohuasviinng eaxgprleaaint s
timseombuet oyfo uth.”eUfnotgilgtyhtehink-
hoinegyhmeo’so nn.o“t Tichedcahfatoesr ethndes
once we get onstage. Then
gigs. “[Audiences] leave
we’re like, ‘This is
and go, ‘yo, where have
our time.’”

I been for the last hour Photoagnrdapahhbaylf? I can’t be- Danlievl eBoitc’sz aorvsekri already!’”

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