Smoking Popes @ Clearwater - Welcome to Janesville

The Smoking Popes play a new song, Welcome to Janesville, at their June 15 show in West Dundee. Gotta love the drum part. Meanwhile, I stand in the back of their crappy under-21 section. Josh said that they'd finished the new album, and that it would be coming out "... in the future.", for what that's worth.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• smoking
• popes
• welcome
• to
• janesville
• clearwater
• dundee

[skiba97]

hey i was there! but front row to joshes right. were you stuck in the 20 and down area?

[danupbaby]

Yeah, it was ridiculous. I've never gone to see them that close to Chicago, too, and I was stunned by just how many under-21 people were there. In Columbia I'm pretty sure I was the only person there under 25.

[Velheim1334]

@stilicho

I'm from Janesville. And this song is to the bone.

[Skarific088]

ssein them here april 23! SO SICK!

[thesmokingpope]

i love the smoking popes, one of the greatest unknown bands of all time

[stilicho]

I believe it is. There's no other Janesville closer to the NW burbs where the Popes are mostly from. It's only about 75 miles away, and they probably saw the sign a gazillion times running up to Madison for gigs and so forth.

On the other hand it isn't so much about Janesville as it is about towns like Janesville.

[bbuccaneerfan87]

i was pissed this show was +18 only

[oscarm50]

cause bayside sucks...all about the smoking popes

[alpur214]

Does anyone have the lyrics to this wonderful new Popes tune?

[cdtx2]

I'm fairly certain it is. Josh's other band, Duvall, has a song called "Racine" that refers to Racine, WI.

[PotchietheMariachi]

question: is this song title referring to Janesville, WI?

[skiba97]

yeah i saw them at the metro with bayside and everybody was old and staring at me cause i was rocking out to bayside