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Animals as Leaders and Periphery's Convergence Tour @ St Andrews Hall

I got to St Andrews Hall late as usual and missed the opening act Car Bomb. I walked into an already packed St Andrews Hall and immediately got my way to the side of the photo pit. As the crowd started to get a little restless the lights dimmed and the fellas in Periphery walked out on stage.

Periphery has to be one of the most creative bands in music. The crowd at St Andrews absolutely loved them. I am honestly blown away by how intense this shit is live. Up close and personal with these bands was some of the most exhilarating shit I have photographed. Their music, both Periphery and Animals As Leaders, is prolific, technical on a mature level, and brutally creative in a way that sets both groups in a league of their own. It's no surprise they get along so well.

Periphery is easily one of the best bands I have ever witnessed a set by. That shit literally blew my fucking mind. I don't know what to really say other than to gush about that set.

After the rest of Periphery's set, I made my way downstairs to The Shelter to use the bathroom. While doing my thing a guy waiting in line said "Great, someone pissed in one of the fucking sinks." I found it to be hilarious because I just ranted the other day about how much more cleaner St Andrews Hall is now that Live Nation has their hands in it. But nothing, nothing will stop the ridiculousness that is a Saturday night crowd in Detroit. When you gotta go, you gotta go.

I made my way upstairs and apparently I was a little over-zealous. I figured most of the gear would be off stage by then. Nope. Not even close. I asked the nearest security guard what the Animals As Leaders set time was. 30 minutes from the minute I asked him. Fucking a. But then he told me... Animals As Leaders were playing for over an hour.

I went back downstairs to the Shelter and chilled for another 10-15 minutes and then made my way back up to the main floor to wait for Animals As Leaders to come out. The beautiful thing about shooting a trio is a smaller amount of subjects makes it easier to get photos. Then you add that this band is too fucking technical to "go off" on stage. Instead of throwing their bodies and guitars around, they just play their instruments and that's more than enough. The music these dudes come up with and play every night is some of the most incredible shit my ears have ever heard. Again, seeing this up close and personal puts it at a level that I can't describe properly.

I probably shouldn't have worn my Deftones shirt as I have had "DEFTONES!!!" yelled at me a dozen times tonight. Funny, but it always catches me off guard.

Someone threw something at my face that night while I was photographing upstairs. Might have been a pocket full of change flung upward from the main floor. Could have easily been an inch higher and took my eye out or smashed my lens. Whoever it was... I hope one day you find a level of peace that makes you regret that stupid shit.

Not surprised in 2017...

Proving just because the music is intelligent doesn't mean all the fans in the crowd are.

Let's not forget someone pissed in the sink earlier in the night...in a bathroom with troughs nonetheless.

As I walked out to go to the car, a guy was being cheered on as he barfed his fucking brains out over the guardrail of the smoking section. Concertgoers laughed hysterically while cheers came from the strip joint next door's smoking section.

Mind you it was maybe 1015?

I would have stayed until the end but the whole getting hit in the face with a rock thing put a damper on my night. As much as I believe that person needs peace, I also wouldn't mind putting up a pair of fives to what I'm assuming would be a chinstrap beard and a drooping jawline that it highlights, I will end with this.

Don't be an asshole.