the killingtons

One more day…

It’s been a very long time since I’ve written something about The Killingtons.

This Friday and Sunday will be the proper end to a band that many had high hopes for, including myself. It will be a decade to the week that they played their first show without my stewardship, the Earth Day festival in Fullerton, California by the train hub. Shortly after that Michél left and then Chris, then Mitch, leaving just JK. There never was a final show, they just stopped playing. I won’t go further into that because you can read the history here on the website or speak to the lads at either of the shows. But, I will say it was fun, with all the ups and downs there was a lot a great memories.

Chris will tell you that I was apprehensive about these shows when he first mentioned the idea, and he was right. The band was a topic of contention for me and to be honest I thought too much time had passed. Much respect to Chris for bringing this all to fruition and to Alex Hernandez and Jon Halperin for the use of their venues.

And so this Friday and Sunday will be that end, first in their hometown of Long Beach and then onto the Glass House in Pomona, a venue that was kind to the alternative scene in the early part of the last decade. Hopefully tomorrow and then Sunday will allow this quartet to ride off into the sunset and be that great memory of our youth.

One last thing, I want to say thank you to Brian DeRose, Jeff Gade, Mike Vavak and Daniel Hennessy for the blood, sweat and tears of their youth for this band. What they did was immense and largely unknown to the masses but were a definitive entity to this band.

Much love, Bill Hatem.