Heavy Chicago Returns Nov . 1 , 2 , 3
Cynic appears November 1
eavy Chicago returns to Avondale Music Hall next month ( early November ) for second consecutive year . Last year ’ s festival was considered a rousing success , and
Hthis year ’ s fest is already living up to its prestige . A fantastic lineup is scheduled fo three sweat-inducing days beginning on Friday , Nov . 1 , and ending on Sunday , Nov . 3 .
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TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER
Music Bingo — Alive One , Chicago ; Windy City Ramblers — Andy ' s , Chicago ; Arcadia Grey / Leisure Hour / Combat — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Bridget Everett and Jeff Hiller : Somebody Somewhere — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Second Hand News — City Winery , Chicago ; VORHEX ANGEL / SiP / Direct Mutant Action — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Open Jam — Evenffow , Geneva ; Insane Clown Posse / Ouija Macc / JCW Wrestling — Forge , Joliet ; Chicago Cellar Boys — Green Mill , Chicago ; It ’ s the Great Pumpkin , Charlie Brown : Chris White Quartet — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Blxst — HOB , Chicago ; Nick Lowe / Los Straitjackets — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Open Mic — Madcats , Palatine ; Best In Grass Awards — Park West , Chicago ; Neck Deep / The Home Team / Super American — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Struggle Jennings / Huey Mack / The Native Howl — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Dave Herrero — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Karaoke — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Akeem Ali — Schubas , Chicago ; Band 2 — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; M . A . G . S ./ Barely Civil — Subterranean , Chicago ; Open Mic — Subterranean , Chicago ; The Criticals — Subterranean , Chicago ; Ebo Taylor / Pat Thomas — Thalia , Chicago ; Music Bingo — Tony D ' s , Elmwood Pk .
WEDNESDAY 30
TomCat Trumpet — Alive One , Chicago ; Charles Heath / Late Jam — Andy ' s , Chicago ; Extreme Halloween Magic Show — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Karaoke — Basecamp , Lisle ; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Splice Series — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Wildermiss — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler Band . Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Blackened — Bourbon St , Merrionette Pk ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Lloyd Snyder and The Big Rig Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Alexis Lombre / Mae Ya Carter — City Winery , Chicago ; Kaonashi / Omerta / Blind Equation — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Ethan Iverson Trio ( Blue Note Record Release ) — Constellation , Chicago ; Chris Cohen / Mia Joy — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Eddie Izzard — Genesee , Waukegan ; Alfonso Ponticelli — Green Mill , Chicago ; Gina Marie & Golden Bucks / Jason Benefield — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Patter / Alexalone / Proun — Hideout , Chicago ; Christian Dillingham — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; WDCB Nite — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Flamingosis / Ethno / Diastrata — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Nick Lowe / Los Straitjackets — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Acoustic Open Mic — Mirage , Schiller Pk ; Almafuerte : Canciones Para Muertos — Old Town School - Maurer
Hall , Chicago ; Fever 333 / Zulu / Hue — Outset , Chicago ; Theory Of A Deadman / 10 Years / Cory Marks — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Esophagus / Carrion Throne / Manifestations — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Joe Doyle Band — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Line Dancing & DJ — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Moonshine / DJ Iggy / Sydfalls — Schubas , Chicago ; Pro Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; MALINDA / Rickie Lee Jones / Sweet Honey in the Rock — Space , Evanston ; Bailey Spinn / Senses / Glimmers — Subterranean , Chicago ; Line Dance Instruction — Sundance , Mundelein ; Orion Sun / Cruza — Thalia , Chicago ; ELYANNA — The Riv , Chicago ; Vinyl Wednesdays — Will Co . Brewing , Shorewood ; Ontonio Karee — Zanies , Chicago ; New Material Night — Zanies , Rosemont .
THURSDAY 31
Open Jam — Alibi , Wonder Lake ; Bonzo Squad — Alive One , Chicago ; Sabertooth / Pro Jam — Andy ' s , Chicago ; Freakshow / Fuzzard & Red Voodoo — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; Open Mic — Arl . Ale House , Arlington Hts ; Karaoke — Austin ' s , Libertyville ; Damager ( Record Release )/ Modern Dairy / CalicoLoco — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheryl Youngblood Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Braxton Keith — Carol ' s , Chicago ; Lusine / Arms & Sleepers / Yppah — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Railheart — City Winery , Chicago ; Diet Lemon / Daphne Eckman / Midamerican Elevator — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Halloween Masquerade Ball ; Dinner & Magic ( 6pm ) — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Frankie Cosmos / Moontype / Butthole — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Tributosaurus : The Rolling Stones — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Andy Brown / Alan Gresik — Green Mill , Chicago ; Deadfest Band — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Warm Human ’ s Haterween — Hideout , Chicago ; The House of Avalon — HOB , Chicago ; Stand Up Comedy — HOB - Foundation Room , Chicago ; Aries Spears — Improv , Schaumburg ; Open Mic — Johnny ' s Blitz , Westside ; Karaoke — Madcats , Palatine ; KMFDM ( 40th Anniversary Tour )/ Morlocks — Metro , Chicago ; Karaoke — Mickey Finn ' s , Liblertyville ; With Poodle / Boot Grooviani / Partakers — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Prayers / Kat Von D — Outset , Chicago ; Open Jam — Pollyanna , St . Charles ; GWAR / Dark Funeral / Squid Pisser — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Ken Carson — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Jim Ryan ' s Classic Albums — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Greenlightss Music / Fury / Kastaway — Roberts Westside , Forest Pk ; Line Dancing & DJ — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Comedy Open Mic — Schubas , Chicago ; Mondo Cozmo / Jane Leo — Schubas , Chicago ; Acoustic Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; whitewolfsonicprincess / Baba Yaga ' s Stew — Space , Evanston ; Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; SIAMÉS — Subterranean , Chicago ; Sanctum Dark Festival — Thalia , Chicago ; Wyatt Flores / Bo Staloch — The Vic , Chicago ; Unbridled Burlesque — Untitled , Chicago ; Spootackular Showcase — Zanies , Chicago .
Promotors Dave Hornyak ( owner of Live Wire Lounge ) and Sean Duffy ( owner of Las Rites Productions / Events ) were pleased with last year ’ s festival turnout and the undyin support of the Chicago heavy metal community . “ I think our biggest takeaway from last yea was that all the fans and all the bands had fun ,” Duffy says enthusiastically . “ The vibe wa really cool and awesome ; like a lot of UE and UK fests I have been to . We don ’ t want ( Heavy Chicago ) to be “ just another gig ” on your list .”
According to Duffy , preparations for curating this year ’ s lineup began immediately afte last year ’ s festival ended . “ Dave and I both book the fest . Dave has been more concentrated on the local and Midwest acts , while I am looking for the national and international acts . Las year we were lucky as we reached out to a lot of bands that I had promoted or we both knew as friends . It was a bit of an uphill battle with a lot of agents trying to tell our vision and many were not listening about Heavy Chicago . This year has definitely been a bit easier as the suc cess of the fest got out , and the bands who played posted and said really awesome stuff . Thi year we have had more options and more agents working with us .”
One of the main goals of this festival is to keep a strong local flavor with Chicago are bands in the lineup . After all , it is called Heavy Chicago . Friday ’ s headliners will be loca stoner / doom metal mainstays Bongripper , plus Chicago post-metal stalwarts Pelican , fol lowed by New York metallic hardcore veterans Earth Crisis on Saturday night with Jamey Jasta ’ s Hatebreed side project -Jasta , and wrapping up with Floridian prog metal heroe Cynic on Sunday . Local doom metal supergroup Legions of Doom ( only area show in 2024 plays on Saturday , while The Skull performs on Sunday . “ We are pretty excited to have th opportunity to play two nights this year ,” the guitarist of both bands , Lothar Keller , say through email . “ The Avondale Music Hall is a fantastic venue with great sound , and the room has an awesome vibe . We are very fortunate to have so many venues in the Chicago area tha can host metal shows and events . With the amount of great local metal bands we have p here it ’ s a good problem to have . It ’ s part of what makes Chicago such a great metal city !” Ticket for the festival and line-up are available at HeavyChicago . com
-Kelley Simm
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