Mike Burns: Silencio, Something Against You, Fight the Nothing, Visional

On July 17th, 2005, Sarah, Matt, and I partied with Silencio before seeing them perform at the Middle East Upstairs.

Silencio and their party!

Silencio lives in an amazing location—directly across the street from The Middle East. Packed into their aparment must have been fifty people, all excited to hear Silencio perform. At least two (probably three or four) languages were shouted, stickers were tossed about, and photos were taken of everyone.

At about 8:50PM someone realized that Silencio was to perform in twenty minutes! We left the heat of the apartment to the cool of Upstairs, walking directly in as if we owned the place. Of course, we didn't, and they made us go back and pay.

More photos were taken before Silencio took to the stage. Marcelo was worried about his voice, and they were still missing a bassist, but the audience didn't care. We were all there for Silencio, whom we knew rocked. Marcelo called us closer, to make it seem like a real rock show, and encouraged us to yell and generally go nuts while Marvio, Dave, and Marcelo performed some of their wildest metal. It ended, on the last note of their last song, with Marvio breaking a string.