This is a band I wasn’t super familiar with, but I liked what I heard so wanted to check out the show. I ended up hanging out with Morty, Pixie, and Yvonne throwing back drinks and pupus at Pipeline Cafe. Everything is going well until about 70% of the way through the show when it all goes to shit.
This guy comes stumbling out of the pit holding his forehead. It looks like he slips and I see what looks like fruit punch or liquor on the tile. Then this guys starts to go down slo-mo style. He’s trying to move forward but his body seems to be weighing him down and he just progressively sinks down to the ground and collapses. At this point we see he has a massive gash in his head and the pool of blood around him is quickly getting bigger. Gotta give credit to Pipeline Cafe, their security/medics jumped into action, blocking off the scene as the guy was given as much resuscitation as possible until the actual paramedics showed up in their ambulance complete with fire truck and police in tow. It gets really surreal and a little frightening when the guy stops shaking on the ground.
Jason Miller of 808 Shows (the promoter of the event) takes the stage, reluctantly interrupting Chiodos to tell everyone what’s going on and asking whoever else may have been involved in the incident to please come forward.
Soon, the collapsed guy was taken away and the police decide to treat Pipeline as a crime scene. That means: we’re all suspects. Next, Chiodos themselves stop the show and that’s that. Everyone starts filing towards the exits and we all find ourselves in line to give the police our names and contact info so we can all give statements later. We’re all milling about for roughly an hour when the cops get a call from the hospital that the guy woke up and told everyone that it was all an accident. Finally, we were allowed to leave and passed by what must have been the entirety of the Honolulu Police Department’s active roster.
As we’re all waiting/leaving, Jason Miller takes the stage again to say that he’s sorry and some asshole(s) in the crowd start getting pissed at him. WTF? He wasn’t given a choice by the cops and some guy was (for all any of us knew) dying from an incident at one of his shows! Whoever that heckling bastard was need to be fucking curbed. Last I saw on www.808shows.com, Jason was actually questioning doing more shows. He’s done a lot for the local scene here in Honolulu, so show your support!
So Chiodos? Good band, I think? What we actually got to see was high energy stuff and good interaction with the crowd. Hope they come back so we can see the full show.
Matthew