Senses Fail + Saves The Day
Punk rock and emo nostalgics beware! Together with Bruges punk label and promoter Eye Spy, we invite a solid double bill to Cactus Club. Senses Fail and Saves The Day, two influential American bands from the nillies, will both perform their classic albums ‘Let It Enfold You’ and ‘Through Being Cool’ live.
SENSES FAIL
Senses Fail – performing ‘Let It Enfold You’ in it’s entirity
Post-hardcore band Senses Fail was formed in 2002 in Ridgewood, New Jersey by singer and songwriter Buddy Nielsen, the group’s only permanent member. With elements of (post)hardcore, punk rock and later metalcore woven into their music, Senses Fail is unmistakably part of the thriving American emo/screamo scene of the nillies.
With debut album ‘Let It Infold You’, which Nielsen wrote at the age of 18 (and whose title was taken from a poem by Charles Bukowski), Senses Fail immediately worked their way into the scene’s attention. The commercial breakthrough followed with 2006’s slightly more polished “Still Searching”, but “Let It Enfold You” remains the fan favourite. Half of the album found its way onto the compilation ‘Follow Your Bliss: The Best of Senses Fail’, and Nielsen regularly revisits Let It Enfold You with full album tours.
SAVES THE DAY
Saves The Day – performing ‘Through Being Cool’ in it’s entirity
With their combination of melodic hardcore and pop punk, Saves The Day, formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1997, is a key band from the ‘Third wave of Emo’.
The group around frontman and songwriter Chris Conley broke through with their second album ‘Through Being Cool’ in 1999, an album that was later frequently cited as an influence by mainstream pop punk/emo bands such as Jimmy Eat World, Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance, leaving its mark on American alternative rock of the nillies.
YOUTH FOUNTAIN
Youth Fountain is the solo emo/pop punk project of Tyler Zanon, a Canadian artist from Vancouver, British Columbia. Since 2017, Zanon has released four records on Pure Noise Records (Senses Fail, Knocked Loose, Cloud Nothings). His music is described by Kerrang as ‘so raw and young that one can’t help but wonder if [Youth Fountain] were peers of Taking Back Sunday and Saves The Day back in the early 2000s.’
