Wednesday night fans were filled with nostalgia at the sold out Chiodos concert at The Pageant. The band is out on tour celebrating 20 years of ‘All’s Well That Ends Well‘, the album that started everything for them.

Ohio’s Hawthorne Heights kicked things off with ‘The Storm‘. Lead singer JT Woodruff got the nostalgia train roiling as he talked about emo and seeing a few emo kids out there in the crowd. A few fans yelled out and he said your the next generation of emo and you have your own things you have to sort out. How emo started out in places like The Creepy Crawl and how the fans ended up bringing it to arenas. How you figured out how to put videos in myspace and how emo hits harder in the Midwest before playing ‘Constant Dread’. The band closed out their set with ‘Ohio Is for Lovers’

Chiodos entered the stage to ‘Prelude’ off their debut album All’s Well That Ends Well. The band would play it in its entirety along with a handful of other songs like ‘Thermacare’, ‘The Undertaker’s Thirst for Revenge Is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)’, ‘Two Birds Stoned at Once’, and ‘Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered‘. Between the ‘One Day Women Will All Become Monsters’ and ‘There’s No Penguins in Alaska’ lead singer Craig Owens asked the crowd to bring the Creepy Crawl energy. It was the second time that the venue had been mentioned tonight. It was a place that early emo, punk, and independent bands played in St. Louis

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