So the size of this show was not a shock. The same night that I saw Turnstile, one of their songs apparently showed up as bumper music on Sunday Night Football - something that I learned by checking Twitter while waiting for Turnstile to come onstage. Apparently, they’re getting played on the radio now. They’ve got hype and critical acclaim and prominent admirers. Turnstile’s move toward rock stardom has been happening for a while. Turnstile still did well, but that wasn’t their show. It’s not just that they were the only non-rapper on the bill they were the only act on the bill that wasn’t on a very particular rap label with a very particular subculture built up around it. Those were difficult circumstances for a band like Turnstile. ![]() Last year, Turnstile were the odd band out when $uicideboy$’ Grey Day tour came to Richmond. I’ve seen Turnstile play to a big crowd before. When my wife heard that, she said, “Maybe one of the Turnstile people will get with a Kardashian.” She was joking, but that joke stopped me in my tracks. Two nights after that DC show, we got the news that the band will open every night on Blink-182’s whole North American arena tour next summer. ![]() And Turnstile’s crowds will get bigger, too. Still, it’s an absolute mindfuck to consider the idea that Turnstile are playing to a Sound & Fury-sized crowd every single night. Both openers definitely had fans who weren’t there to see Turnstile and who presumably don’t care about hardcore at all. Openers JPEGMAFIA and Snail Mail, both of whom also claim the greater Baltimore area and neither of whom is hardcore, probably both played for as long as Turnstile, and it was a hometown show for both of them, too. Turnstile didn’t sell out the room on their own. Sound & Fury is a DIY festival, and Turnstile’s current tour is decidedly not DIY it’s as pro as it gets. This was effectively a hometown show for Baltimore-based Turnstile, not just another tour stop. The Turnstile crowd on Sunday night was bigger. By most estimates, this was the biggest DIY hardcore festival that has ever happened in North America. Most of them focused instead on people who entered his orbit, such as young sorcerer Jennifer Kale, absurd hero Howard the Duck, or even Brandt herself, who later enjoyed something of a redemption arc.Īll of these characters would come to have a bond of sorts with the monster, but not anything as rudimentary as what we see between Ted and Jack Russell (Bernal) in Werewolf by Night.A post shared by TURNSTILE 5,000 people showed up to the Sound & Fury fest in Los Angeles this summer, it felt like a huge victory for hardcore. In the character's seminal run, written by Steve Gerber, he was almost a supporting player in his own stories. So, why should we care about this aspect being lost in adaptation? Well, classic Man-Thing stories have an interesting dynamic distinct from anything else in the Marvel Universe. Most notably, negative feelings such as anger, jealousy and fear cause him unbearable pain, which motivates him to intervene in misdeeds out of nothing more than primal instinct. He is essentially mindless, but experiences a physical reaction to emotions felt by others in his vicinity. ![]() Not only are all memories of his past life destroyed, but so too is any conventional thought, understanding or means of communication. But while Werewolf by Night's interpretation of the character seems to retain his exact personality, right down to an apparent love for sushi, the comic book version is a far more tragic figure. By entering your details, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy policy.
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