Miss May I fans Stay Metal at the AP Tour on November 13
by Kalyca Lawrence
Photos by Max Giffin
Miss May I headlined the AP Tour at Summit Music Hall on November 13 with hardcore lineup the Ghost Inside, Like Moths to Flames, and Amity Affliction. The AP Tour is sponsored yearly by Alternative Press Magazine, and showcases some of the most promising bands they’ve featured that year; quite the heavy lineup for the tour that last year featured Black Veil Brides, D.R.U.G.S. and I See Stars. For Levi Benton, vocalist for Miss May I, the heavier set is welcomed: “It’s the first heavy tour we’ve done in a long time. We haven’t done a heavy tour, like a strict begin- to-end heavy bands, in a long time. So it’s fun to have a tour like that and for it to be the AP Tour and be such a mainstream promoted tour. It’s just real crazy for us to be on.”
However, one name was missing at this show, Glass Cloud, who flipped their van while on the road. Benton gave the low down on the incident saying, “It’s just crazy to be texting them, and then the next morning you’re texting them and ‘Yeah, our van flipped over and we’re stuck.’ Oh my gosh, because that road is notorious that they wrecked on. They are all safe though. No one got scratched or bruised, so everything is good.” Throughout the night, as each band took the stage, a call for donations to Glass Cloud at their merch table was repeated. By the end of the night the crowd had raised over $500.
Miss May I rocked the venue, starting with “Hey Mister,” “Leech,” “Day by Day,” and other songs from their album, At Heart, released earlier this summer. Fan favorite “Forgive & Forget” made an appearance from their first album Apologies Are For The Weak much to the audience’s delight. The crowd might have walked away sore from mosh pits randomly opening up, and a few fights here and there when fans took the aggressive style too seriously. But the band was pitch perfect, and later in their set, the call to forgo circle pits in favor of marathon pits was a success.
The AP Tour will continue for another two weeks, going through Thanksgiving, but for Miss May I, who are on the road nine months out of the year and a long way from home, Thanksgiving will be hosted in their hometown of Troy, Ohio, which is quite the treat. According to Benton, “We’ve been touring for four years and we’ve never spent Thanksgiving at home since we started touring. It’s always been Golden Corral or something because you’re on the road. But this time we are actually playing Cincinnati, which is close to home, the day after Thanksgiving, so we’re actually going to be home for Thanksgiving this year.
Until the next time Miss May I plays Denver, Benton reminds his fans to “Stay metal.”
To hear Glass Cloud’s tour manager Eric Smith tell more about the accident, go to www.coloradomusicbuzz.com
Category: National News
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