"Okay, so here is the deal: There was an incident at the Lawrence Knights of Columbus recently that involved a stabbing and a shooting, which ultimately led to all functions at the venue being cancelled due to the city of Lawrence. This presents a huge problem. However, we were able to secure the Roller Kingdom in Hudson, MA for the show on Friday. We are so sorry that this shit keeps happening, but once again it is out of our hands and it is due to a series of unfortunate events that we cannot control. So, we need everyone to spread the word to all their friends and anyone they know who was going to the show that it is still on this Friday February 2nd, but is now being held at the Roller Kingdom in Hudson, MA.


Once again we are really sorry to anyone who this inconveniences and we are just as upset as you are about the way this turned out, but we assure you that this show is STILL HAPPENING, all bands will be there, there will be NO MORE venue or date changes, it WILL be fun and Guns Up! will go out with a bang (no pun intended), we assure you. Thank you all for understanding the situation and bearing with us through all this. See you on Friday, in Hudson, NOT Lawrence ; )- Guns Up!



Friday February 2nd
@ ROLLER KINGDOM (30 minutes from Boston)
5 HIGHLAND PARK AVE
HUDSON MA



7pm $10

GUNS UP (LAST SHOW)
HAVE HEART
VERSE
SHIPWRECK
HARDER THE FIGHT
RESIST

info: Joshxhynes@tmail.com

other info:
There will be a stage
Everyone will be able to get in the place is huge.
There is food and drinks (no bar)


DIRECTIONS FROM BOSTON
4: Merge onto I-90 W / MASS PIKE / MASSACHUSETTS
TURNPIKE (Portions
toll). 27.5 miles
5: Merge onto I-495 N via EXIT 11A toward MARLBOROUGH /
N.H.-MAINE. 10.2 miles
6: Take the RT-62 E exit- EXIT 26- toward HUDSON. 0.3 miles
7: Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto MA-62 / COOLIDGE ST. 0.9 miles
8: Turn RIGHT onto HIGHLAND PARK AVE. <0.1 miles

DIRECTIONS FROM WORCESTER
3: Merge onto I-290 E via the ramp on the LEFT toward SHREWSBURY /
MARLBORO. 13.9 miles
4: Merge onto I-495 N via EXIT 26B on the LEFT toward
LOWELL. 2.4 miles
5: Take the RT-62 E exit- EXIT 26- toward HUDSON. 0.3 miles
6: Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto MA-62 / COOLIDGE ST. 0.9 miles
7: Turn RIGHT onto HIGHLAND PARK AVE. <0.1 miles



DIRECTIONS FROM LAWRENCE KOC
1: Start out going SOUTH on SHAWSHEEN RD toward GREENFIELD ST. <0.1 miles
2: SHAWSHEEN RD becomes SALEM ST. 0.1 miles
3: Turn SHARP LEFT onto LORING ST. <0.1 miles
4: LORING ST becomes MASSACHUSETTS AVE. <0.1 miles
5: Merge onto I-495 S toward LOWELL / MARLBORO. 33.7 miles
6: Take the RT-62 E exit- EXIT 26- toward HUDSON. 0.2 miles
7: Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto MA-62 / CENTRAL ST. Continue to
follow MA-62. 1 miles
8: Turn RIGHT onto HIGHLAND PARK AVE. <0.1 miles
9: End at 5 Highland Park Ave"

Fuck the knights of columbus is so good it also helped its 10 mins away from me. But whatever I will find a way to this show. Has anyone been to the Roller Kingdom? Does it suck? I heard it does.

I thought they broke up.

the Roller Kingdom isnt too bad. the PA can get kind of drowned out, but the sound isnt terrible. also there is usually a pretty good turnout there.

thats not that bad i suppose, now to find a way! so far all my friend's cars are filled up i'm on waiting lists haha maybe i can con my mom, also having a car would come in handy at this point but alas i'm still looking!

RichHorror said:

its their last show.
i'm not too big of a fan but i think i'll head to this.

anonymous said:

if people in law town would be meatheads and fight inside the bar it wouldn't of been canceled

message from Guns Up
" Okay, so here is the deal:

There was an incident at the Lawrence Knights of Columbus a few days ago that involved a stabbing and a shooting which ultimately led to the closing of the club. This presents a huge problem. However, we were able to secure the Roller Kingdom in Hudson, MA for the show on Friday. We are so sorry that this shit keeps happening, but once again it is out of our hands and it is due to an series of unfortunate events that we cannot control. So, we need everyone to spread the word to all their friends and anyone they know who was going to the show that it is still on Friday February 2nd, but is now being held at the Hudson Roller Kingdom. THIS IS A HUGE VENUE! EVERYONE WILL GET IN!

5 Highland Park Avenue
Hudson, MA 01749

Show starts @ 7:00. We have no idea how much it's going to cost. Somewhere around $10.

To the best of our knowledge, there's no commuter rail that goes to Hudson.

Once again we are really sorry to anyone who this inconveniences and we are just as upset as you are about the way this turned out, but we assure you that this show is STILL HAPPENING, all bands will be there, there will be NO MORE venue or date changes, it WILL be fun and Guns Up! will go out with a bang (no pun intended), we assure you.

Thank you all for understanding the situation and bearing with us through all this.

See you on Friday, in Hudson, NOT LAWRENCE.

- Guns Up!"

xanonymousx where are you from haha i live in north andover give me a ride =[ haha i wish i'll pay you

Roller Kingdom is a big enough place to hold whomever shows...everyone is encouraged to come...get ready to party!!!!

hearing about a shooting and stabbing at a previoius show will really make people want to attend this one.

yo you live in north andover? who are you? get at me on aim i might be able to help you out.
aim = chris r letch

yo letch? thats weird, its chris pinto but i got a ride from my mom i had to like beg her thanks anyways dude, i'll see you there though if you're for sure going. i haven't seen you since last year. thanks again though.

ill be the shirtless guy with the beard, try to catch me.

anonymous said:

The shooting and stabbing didn't happen at a show. I think it was just a private party at the club. Spaniards get crazy up here in lawtown. Shooting someone is just another way of saying hello.

"hello sa. now, say hello to my little friend"

you always had that fucking beard, how big is it now?

i'm comming from long island, im leaving school early for this damm show, haha gonna be sweet

ANOTHER THING!....anyone know the special guest?...if there is one

I'm driving from work in andover mass. this should be a crazy show.

they should force everyone to wear rollerskates... that would be pretty bad ass

Thomas Edge said:

i heard about something last night not sure if its put under special guest but i'm not saying it if it is.

shows gonna be sick

this is 24 hours away! this will be nuts.

I'm driving by the venue right this second. it doesn't look like it knows what is going to happen to it.

i talked to mullet earlier this week...he mentioned nothing of a special guest... if there is i hope its good...

I hope this is in the main room with a huge stage. I want to photograph some crazy shit.

if I'm not mistaken, I shot one of their first shows ever:
http://www.returntothepit.com/concert.php?date=2002-10-24

word is show is on the rink itself witha rented stage. fucking AWESOME!

there are 2 things keeping this from one of the best shows ever:
limit reunion
outbreak not playing.

I guess that leaves room for a limit, guns up!, and reach the sky reunion show!

haha the limit...that would be awesome. limited word for word (ex the limit and other bands) demos at this show!

I NEED A RIDE TO THE GUNS UP! SHOW TONIGHT...I GO TO MERRIMACK COLLEGE IN NORTH ANDOVER, IM ME AT NIKE1016 OR CALL ME 973-868-1639 ....SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASEE!!!!!

i will be at this tonight should be fun.

anonymous said:


haha, SOMEONE'S from NJ

prob will be there

doors open at 7 or show starts at 7?

were you work in Andover Rev?

actually, isn't there a commuter rail you can take? I'm pretty sure there is

I work in andover mass, yes.

the_reverend said:

They rented out the same stage as the End Of Summer Jam II in Lawrence, about 2-2 1/2 feet high. Pic from that show:




So yeah, PLLEENNTYY of crazy pics =] See ya there Aaron

Yeah im from NJ and i need a ride yoooo help me out someone!!!!! but im at merrimack college

futurebreed said:

you do know it is at roller kingdom in hudson ma right? not the KoC

xanonymousx said:

Yeah, but they rented out the same stage they used at the KoC for End Of Summer Jam II. That why the post happened ;)

I forget why I couldn't go to the EOSJ2. I hope the stage isn't too crowded for a little old reverend to stick his cameras in someone's face.

I'm pissed cause my kodak SLR/n battery is MIA and I only have one of them!

little old rev better not forget his chargers anywhere,,,

the parking lot is completely full and I gotta piss.

ok the entire room is open. the stage is like 2 1/2-3 feet and there is soooooo much room.

I hope this works. it's full now... but that is what it looked like

resist: a band featuring dave STF and Josh hynes? awesome. This started the night off right with people jumping off the stage for their entire set. The security (ed and chris) were trying to keep people off the speakers, but it seemed hard. People kept wanting to slam into them. The band was really good,but I missed every single one of the jumps that the 2 notorious jumpers in this band did.

WOW....

WOW...amazing show.....there were so many people there...pissed that i missed most of have heart because i was parked in the trailor park..and it took me 30 minutes to find another parking space

oh, you were one of those people... I heard about you on the announcements.

yep...i even knocked on the persons door to ask if it was alright if i parked in front of their house before the show..it was fine with them...it had to fucking snow!

I'm still atleast 45 minutes from home and the roads are horrible.

how many people you guess were there?

700 to 800? I didn't walk around but when I looked out it was so full.

@ $10 ea. I really really hope that josh gets to bring home a chunk of change after paying for everything. that kid's given so much to the hardcore scene.and it would be awesome if he just once got something back monitarily.

cant wait to see the pcis

Wow, I'm so beat. Just got back to my place. Time to sift through photos.

crazy.

i still say reach the sky's last show>>

now how big was the place they were orignally supposed to have the show?!?!

i heard i missed the biggest pielup ever, is this true? i left after i had my unfortunate stage diving accident which resulted in a concussion, i hope rev you got a photo of me slamming into ricky and probably almost into you haha. well that was a fun time. can't wait to check out the pics and videos that will be popping up, thanks guys for all the fun times.

I'm finally working on pictures..

800 pictures to go through

ok, the kid with the "where it ended" jean vest?!? awesome!

i have so many bruises its not even funny

my head is the size of a watermelon, its insane. hopefully everyone ha da good time though. i did.

pictures are processing and will be uploading shortly.

wow, great show. i'm actually glad it got moved to hudson because it's like 10 minutes from my house.

I heard the headcount was ranging from 1200-1500. No lie.

wow... if that is true.. just like wow... that's like more than braids last show.

Sheer insanity.

One of the best punk shows i've been to in a while.

there were 1200 kids! FUCKING AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!

damnn can't wait for that dvd i actually stage dove hahahahah

How far is this place from the Cambridge/Somerville area?

bout 35-40 min

good seeing you rev last night again.

the_reverend said:



I remember that show. That was the only time Ive ever gotten knocked out at a show. wasnt it one of the limits last shows also if not the last?

shit. that last one was me, not jonah.

that was the limit's last show.

We need a reunion show with The Limit!

I agree

I've already made my feelingd on that subject extremely clear.

harder the fight: the night, stage, and crowd just got more crazy. Tons of MV kids were in the crowd, mostly singing along on what may be the last HTF set you ever see. I know that they have a lot of awesome riffs, but I couldn't hear them.. Well.. Except for one song. in the middle of their set, matt lacasse rolled out on stage and was promptly sat on by the singer. Legend has it, Matt learned this move in 1982 while on tour with whitesnake. I believe the true fact is that he learned this after hitting level 49 in world of warcraft.

shipwreck: damn it, brian DB4D mentioned that they sounded like integrity. That was all I could hear during their set. they started off with a huge intro story and kids were already moving. There wasn't even any music yet. This was the first band I looked down and saw an muslim-looking Colin of Arabia in the pit. Also, there was one fight on the floor and then one song later, someone hit the floor and stopped moving. I hope they are alright. The stage was getting really hard to work on during their set. You had so many people up there taking pictures and video taping. The pictures are all looking terrible like hell fest 2004. Shipwreck aren't a really loud or really fast band, but like integrity, kids just go crazy for them. their new stuff is a lot different, but no one in the crowd seemed to care. to them, shipwreck can do no wrong.

are you only doing one review rev? it was so fast paced i think i need to read some reviews.

oh nevermind thanks bunches.

verse: honestly, I haven't heard anything about/from these dudes for years. I kind of expected people to just hang back. I was saddly mistaken. Kids went over board for them too. And of course, the stage got more packed. on one side of the stage, it was just a constant flow of kids from the crowd, over my shoulder. I felt like I was at the beach getting pummeled by waves. I only saw these guys once before, but I don't remember them getting such a great reaction. The singer kept giving speeches about guns up! And unity. Some of them sounded like the goonies speech when mikey says "Their time! Up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here.." oh yeah, the blonde hair reminded me of MV circa 93-95... I swore I saw dave scrodd for a second.

have heart: ok, always carry extra batteries on stage with you. I had to get off the stage and change them. It was wicked hard to get back up on the stage after. There was a layer of people watching them, then a layer of camera'd persons. Then a layer of stage potatoes. And finally the band. They weren't given much room. I moved over to get shots from the other side of the stage and got punched in the eye by a stagediver. I'm so tuff. I forgot to count how many mic chords the show went through.. I think it was 2 up until HH. Well, HH went through 2 as well. Even with that, the mic was cutting out most of the set. When ever the singer would try to talk, you would hear like a 3rd of what he said. Honestly, when the music was playing, I mostly couldn't hear if the mic was working or not. I had waaaay to many boys and girls screaming in my ears to even hear the vocals.. A few times the mic went into the crowd and you would hear nothing even though people looked like they were screaming. Out of all the bands, I think this is the only one I was send a CD of.they had a bunch of guests, but I forget who they were. did dan come out of a song?

i know future breed was there but who were the other 900 photographers there?
that stage was packed

Todd P was there, Rob Dolan was there, the girl from xvanx was there, and other than that, not sure who else was shooting

I was looking for todd pollack's b9 account

damn, thats a lot of people!

you will never, ever, ever, ever see a metal show like that

it's a shame, really

I like this one better

SacreligionNLI said:


You obviously have never seen Municipal waste.

Dehydration is lame, I hate being thirsty!

wow....fuckin insane

MW brings about 300-400 people. this was a little bit more. I'm sure the wasted weekend that MW does in WV... they bring A LOT of people there

Kevord said:

that is correct...perhaps i shouldn't have used ever so many times

thanks for the tip on who to try and get if i ever find a hall in worcester that doesn't cost $420 and kicks you out at 10

where did the stage come from?

rented.

the_reverend said:

i completely missed myself in this one. thats me in the integrity shirt

I don't know which shirt is the integrity shirt. the kid on top is like surfing dude.

Behind the bald guy.

oh, I see the head on the sleave now.
the bald guy looks like he's in an army add... is that god smack playing in the background while jet's fly around?

Kevord said:

i can make out a little bit of the shirt i was wearing in this picture... wow i got crushed.

Who booked this show?

i believe it was josh hynes?

guns up!: like I said on the main page, what a way to go out. Standing in front of 1200+ kids, all of whom are fighting with each other to get to the mic, it's like being on top of the world. Granted shooting on stage was at its hieght of difficulty during their set, but I put my camera over people's heads to snap what I was missing. Josh Hynes was the regulator on stage and kept shoving people away from the equipment. at certain point people were moshing across the stage. With only a couple of feet to work with. The very end of the set was anti-climatic. The band just stopped and then everyone paused (waiting for the next song). When they all accepted that there weren't none more, people started clapping and somberly walking towards either the band or for the door. Lots of hug.

FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS VIDEOS FROM THIS SHOW HERE:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=cocolash

and a 40 minute collection from all bands put together which I like personally the most:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=49...477&q=guns+up+duration%3Along&hl=en

and watching these, its amazing to see from the outside that I was actually apart of this that night, this was truly a spectacle of a show. i will miss this band a lot.

http://filespump.com/download/15676045-gun...ll-this-was-dvd-2009-part1-rar.html