Face to Face is about seven weeks into their reunion tour in support of their new album Laugh Now… Laugh Later, and they stopped in at Showbox Market last Friday. If you don’t know who Face To Face is/was, you probably still know their hit song “Disconnected,” which was featured during the semi truck scene in Tank Girl. It also got quite a bit of radio play in the ’90s.

The show was pretty good, but not without its problems. First, I have to say how amazing it sounded. Showbox Market always sounds good. Face To Face and openers Strung Out both played very energetic punk rock, too. But the crowd was awful. It was as if all the college dudes from the ’90s had not been to a show in a decade and decided this was the show to attend. It was the first time I have seen the Showbox staff have to handcuff someone. A guy apparently pushed a girl pretty hard and then mocked her friends when they tried to stand up for her. When the staff came to calm everyone down he pushed one of them too and it was all over for him. I heard the pit was pretty rough too. People not helping each other up when they fall? Come on, Seattle, we are better than this!

Pictures of Face To Face and Strung Out follow. Not pictured are early openers Blitzkid and Darling.

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