So yeah...Andrew from Men As Trees here. I really don't understand why you dudes are so upset with us. First of all, we love you guys and consider you some of our best band friends, and it is really disappointing to have you guys speak so poorly of us. I agree that us few bands need to stick together, and it seems like you guys are trying to drive a wedge through our friendship over nothing.
I've only ever thrown 2 shows in Michigan. One was last July for l'antietam (which you guys played) and the other was our New Year's Eve show, which was more of a party and we only had 2 bands, Men As Trees and Wolve. I only wanted 2 bands for the show since our neighbour is really sketch and Wolve was not picked over Ariadne's Thread because your "screamo" sound wouldn't of gone over well. I love diverse shows but we have been friends with the guys in Wolve for over 5-6 years now, had never yet played with them, and they were all going to be at the party anyways since they live in the same town as us. It was never my intention to slight you guys, and I really wish you would of just picked up the phone and called me if you were pissed rather vent to randoms on the internet.
You guys might be mad about not being asked to play our CD Release show. If it was up to me I would have had everyone we are friends with from here to Chicago play, but after our New Year's Eve show, our neighbour threatened to call the cops the next time it looked like we were having a "party". So already with 4 bands slotted to play, I'm basically begging for a Noise Violation ticket. And the bands on the bill for our CD release have been slated forever since Wolve and Docile Bodies are again local friends who we've known for 5-6 years, and Lungs is playing since Mick recorded Violin on our new album and needs to be at the show anyways. I turned down a bunch of out of town bands because there simply wasn't room. Truly nothing personal.
I also had 2 more shows slated for summer, our June 8th Tour Kick Off with Mans, and our July 20th Osceola show. The band and I were talking at practice the other day about how it would be sweet to get you guys out here for one of those since they weren't booked yet and we didn't have local commitments but after reading the above posts I guess you guys are done with us for how ****ty we have been to you. I know always being really friendly to you guys and offering to help put out your EP for free must make me a real *******, right?
~Andrew/Men As Trees
PS - after hearing about this Frank says :-(
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