Detroit, Michigan

Detroit is a music town. From Motown to the White Stripes the town has maintained quite a reputation over the years. Detroit also has a reputation for being a rough city, and although DC, Atlanta, and Newark all trump the Motor City in crime rates, it is a visibly intimidating town.

We played at The Painted Lady, a small bar on the bottom floor of a duplex in a residential block of a polish neighborhood. A good group of people were hanging out at the bar and ready to hear music. The show went well and people generally paid attention and made us feel welcome.

Once the bands wrapped things up the crowd started getting rowdy. These people were partying hard for a Sunday night, and kept it that way until we shut the bar down at 2am. Thankfully Mike’s family was putting us up so we headed back there and crashed for the night.