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| A Very GK! Holiday Festival |
This weekend, A Very GK! Holiday Festival is coming to New
York for it’s final show this year in Poughkeepsie. In October, the Alternative
Press announced that Matchbook Romance
will reunite to headline the GK! Holiday Festival for the New York Date. Matchbook Romance
released two albums, “Stories and Alibis” in 2003 and “Monsters” in 2006 (Billboard).
Among the band’s major hits were “Monsters,” and “Promise,” both were
featured on MTV
and VH1. In the
past, they’ve toured with big names such as Yellowcard, Fall Out Boy, and Chiodos and have been members of
the Take
Action Tour. Originally from Poughkeepsie, New York, it made sense for Matchbook Romance
to come back from hiatus for this show, it will be their first live performance
in over 3 years.
I was at their last show at The Chance in 2006 before they
announced a hiatus a few months later. Matchbook Romance is known to put on a great holiday show, decorating the
drum kit in Christmas lights and breaking into Carol of the Bells during the
breakdown of one of their songs. In 2009, the band did a few reunion shows but
have yet to come fully out of hiatus and release any new material. Instead, the
members went separate ways and into side projects.
So this weekend, The Chance will host the GK!
Holiday Festival with Matchbook Romance and Anadivine headlining. Also sharing the stage will be Kid Jerusalem, Hit the
Lights, A Loss for Words, The Dangerous Summer, and many more. I had the
pleasure of interviewing Kid
Jerusalem in July; I hope to catch up with them at the show to see what
they’ve been up to since they played with Bayside and Taking Back Sunday
earlier this year. Read the entire post here.
Let’s hope that Matchbook Romance will decide to come out of hiatus for good and release
some new songs. Attending the GK! Holiday Festival is a great way
to end 2012. Tickets are still on sale through Sound Rink or
through The Chance
box office.
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