The Network blessed the artwork by performing in the middle of the gallery, adorned in corpse makeup. Their singer repetitively noted that "the band had gotten lost en route to a summer-time halloween party." It was a pretty brutal way to begin the evening.
They were followed by Idiot Vehicle. This trio played quick and hard, and clearly fetishized the thought of going deaf by feedback.
Nothing can prepair a person for the immense earth-shattering noise of The Body. When they had reached full momentum in their set, the building actually blew up. No one was harmed.
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