Getting to see a band I never thought I’d be able to see again -a band that I hadn’t seen in years- and to do so at a venue I hadn’t been to before made this a real interesting cross section. As for many people at the Fortitude Valley Music Hall, Alexisonfire were a seminal band for my younger years. As I grew up, their music would grow with me, as would my appreciation for their side projects took up in Alexisonfire's absence.

Despite being somewhat of a punk devotee myself, I approached this concert with little to no previous immersion in these prolific bands’ back catalogue or history, or their solid fan bases. Both Social Distortion and Bad Religion emerged from the petri dish of Orange County, California’s punk rock scene in the '80s; a place described by former US President Ronald Reagan as somewhere ‘good conservatives go to die’, Orange County is also responsible for the likes of Agent Orange, The Adolescents and The Offspring.