it was ward’s birthday at midnight and it’s safe to say we had a little too much fun this night.

we took these because we needed a picture to send in with our application for the philly music conference (remember that?). it wasn’t until after we sent them one of the pics that we looked at these others and realized we’re showing way too much leg. we didn’t get picked to play.

this was our second show with all four of us. at the time we were called bender which lasted until the end of 2001. our first show with ward had been two weeks before at the sam adams brewhouse in philly. our setlist for both shows consisted of 8 of the 10 songs from 21, st. nick, lemonade, rotten life and two covers which on this night were “cool” by superchunk and “color me impressed” by the replacements. at sam adams we played “saving my ticket” by superchunk and “allison’s starting to happen” by the lemonheads.