Mellow Yellow Monday--ChiILin' At Riot Fest

 This weekend at Riot Fest, someone pointed out that our metal and punk shows on ChiIL Live Shows are anything but chill.   Very true, but they did go down in Chi, IL (or Chicago, Illinois), so the name refers to a sense of place, not a mellow style.   Still, we'll share a few of our yellow tinged fest photos for Mellow Yellow Monday.   

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Loads of people love to relax with old school punk, stage diving and loud rock, and you'd better believe thousands of people who spent the last 5 days in an orgy of music and late night revelry are having a very mellow Monday.

Suicide Machines:

Social Distortion:

Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band:

Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg:

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For more diverse entries for Mellow Yellow Monday, from around the world, click the link below.

Photos: Suicide Machines-Secret Show at AAA Warehouse, Chicago-Riot Fest 2011

Suicide Machines killed it last night at a secret, late night, after show at the AAA Warehouse in Chicago.  It was great to hear lead singer, Jason Navarro, expound on being a dad now.  His own next gen of punk kin already love The Ramones.    He may be somebody's parent now, but he's still a skater and an old school Detroit punk at heart.  And Suicide Machine's high energy, political ska/punk had everyone skankin' like 1991 all over again.

The crowd was stage diving and screaming along, even when an inebriated Navarro forgot some of their songs they haven't played out in 15 years and improvised.    

The drummer and bass player exchanged a few quizzical looks and mouthed expletives, but didn't miss a beat and went with it, for some sweet, improvised mayhem.    

The band played their landmark LP, Destruction by Definition (more or less) in it's entirety, then branched out into Black Flag covers and requests for more of their originals. 


 

We can't wait to see them again tonight at Congress Theater where they open for The Descendents.