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gigilalaka · 4 years

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The Deage Troll Au. Update and Chapter 1

So, this was supposed to tell you all that want to read my still in progress deage au, that chapter 1 was out on my ao3 account. Well its not. I can’t get access to it on my pc and I’ve tried a couple of other methods as well. Now I’m just waiting for they guys and girls that run ao3 to find whats wrong. However I want people to at least read the first chapter so here it is. We will see what happends in the coming days but for now enjoy!

*for thought

‘for speak

Chapter 1 “ Good days gone bad”

Poppy looks out of one of her windows that she got installed barely 3 weeks ago, its soft rain that gos pit patter on them tonight and normaly she would hum to the soft sound but she can’t find the strengt nor heart to do it. Her mind is filled with worry and guilt over the small body thats currently sleeping in a small borrowed bed that Smidge had been so kind to give her. * What am I do to now?* the words keeps runing around her head as she hears a small whimper coming from the bed. She truns around to look at them and walks over with soft steps and just stops at bedside, the little thing looks like they are not haveing the best of dreams. She could not blame them, she bet shes haveing them tonight as well once she finally finds sleep herself.

She slowly stroke the little things face, tears silent runing out of both closed eyes. One out of lost another out worry the next out of fear. A small boyish voice filled with sadness and longing asking for the one person thats never going to be able to anwser back ‘ grandma, where are you?’ It breaks her heart just hearing it.

‘Oh Branch, I’m so so sorry. I should’t have brought that stupid flower to the bunker, we should’t have.’ she says as she looks at her boyfriend, now in a body of a 6 year old, his skin grey as dark ash, hair black as coal and a fearfull frown onpond his little sleeping face. It still amazed her how bad everything had gotten just within 5 days, and it all started when he asked her a favor of just getting some stuff from the deep forest. How she just wish she’d could stop her past self from taking that damn flower or just give it to the herbalist before she and Hickory went to visit him. Maybe then neither of them wouldn’t feel so bad like they do now.

‘I’m so so sorry, sweetie. I’m so sorry’ she keeps saying, tears anew starts run out her eyes again, while her mind drifts back 5 days ago, where it all started.

‘So let me see if I get this right?’ Hickory begins while he helps his brother over a giant fallen log with a rope around him and Dickory, while said brother is cursing up and down and to the high heavens for gifting him with this damn body and how he wish he’d have moveing hair like the pops have. It would sure make this a lot faster! Poppy stops to look at the bounty hunter, the half open basked strapped on her and one on each bounty hunters backs moveing a little showing herbs, barks, flowers and berries, a small smile froming on her face when Hickory nearly let loose the rope thats currently the only thing thats keeping his brother from falling several feet down, again. The small yodleller looking at the other one with a glare. Dareing his little brother loose his grip again on the rope, or else theres going to be hell to pay.

‘Branch is missing or gone out of several herbs and a type of moss thats used for a variety of diffrent meds and skin tonics? And he ask you to get them for him while he fixses something down in the bunker thats gone badly out of whack?’ For the past 4 months, Hickory and Dickory has been residents of said bunker while they are here helping the pop trolls build up their villiage again. Its part of the deal they have with Delta on the amount of charity works they need to get done with the country trolls and for what they did Poppy and Branch. First they had to help fixing some the homes and buildings back in Lonesome Flats, before they were sent to what remaind of the Pop villiage to help fix things there as well. Though to be honest, untill more of the trees and plants recover some more, theres little they can fix. Many a troll are still living in the undergrund bunker the resident grump live and build up, till some of their home trees are ready to take them in again. Though said grump was getting a little antsy with all the other trolls hyper-go-lucky energy. And endless will to party hard and as loud as possible.

Both he and Dickory had been very supriesed and shocked on how one troll had build something this lagre by the age of 15, get it so well stocked and maintain all alone for well over a decade. It was not for nothing that the other pop trolls called him the most prepared troll of the Pop villiage. *Though to be honest, we should have figured that out with how he was so prepared for just about everything on the journey* Hickory thought while putting the rope in his basket, Dickory finally on safe ground. He’s very sure that if they meet another log like that again, his big bro is just gonna swallow his pride and ask the queen for a ride over instead. It was getting very tiring getting past these forsaken logs for the both of them.

‘Yep’ the queen say, the ‘p’ poping as she said it.’ The Ruby moss is the most improtent one along with the Silver Drop Rose. They are used for some very serious bruns tonics and blood loss meds that I think even the funk trolls have never seen. Branch said that even if we only get a few of each of them, it still be enough to treat several dozen patients, but it would really help him and the doctors to have a bundle or two of each instead. They only bloom for the brief period between these 2 weeks. The rainstrom season is coming soon and they are going to be washed away soon when the first storm hits. Oooh look some more Dede berries! Miss Flourens going to be so happy that we gotten some of them, they hard to find this time of the year. Now she wont have to worry so much about the flu season’ The berries looks nice where they are hanging from their bush, a rich maroon colour with what looks like a golden stripe going around the oval shaped fruit. Poppy takes out a few small clay jars to store them in from her basket. She notes that she’s running out of room to store things. She take out a book from the basket she’d taken with her in her hair, incase she found any other herbs she’s not sure about. One of the many useful gifts Branch have given her the past 2 years.

‘So why did you take us with you girly? You know how that boy of yours don’t like us very much’ Dickory asked, it was a bit of a understatment, Branch had been rageing mad at them when he found out the their lie. Had it not been for the fact that Poppy's other friends was holding him down, Dickory is very sure he and his bro would not be walking at all. Its a bit better now, but non of the yodeller brothers wants to overstep themself the frail peace they have right now. Though he still wounders what the less colour full troll meant with ‘ this is just like what happened almost 2 years ago!’. He did not like the sound of it, not at all.

‘Mostly to give you guys some breathing room really.’ Dickory gets back, the queen is still getting some of the last berries in the jar. Then give them to him for storage in his basket. ‘Also, I know for a fact that since your both bounty hunters you guys was the better choice to take on this little trip when it comes to protection. Which I know mister grumpy is not going argue against, beside I’d rather take you guy over the other one thats avaialble.’ * The less said about Creek the better off I am* Poppy thinks, not wanting to take that guru on this trip today, lately the purple troll was trying to get them alone very often and that scared her.

The three continue their journey, stoping every now and then for a breather or a brief lunch, when they come to a area that has the herbs they are looking for. Its not easy to get to them though. The roses blooms on a small cliff thats very close to a river that has some very sharp stones jutting out and the moss prefer to be on the ceilings in a cave that is home some nasty creeps and crawls that no sane troll would want crawling in their pants. However, when they took a break near a tree, they a get a glimps of a snow white petals that seems to shimer in the light behinde another tree and some bushes a little father ahead of them. Hickory and Dickory is not sure if it is safe to go there, but Poppy is insistent that they at least check it out.

They come onpond a small clearing with a pond near the middle of it, a single flower blooming from the north side of the pond. Its white as snow that shimer in the sun light, with what looks like golden, amethyst and royal coalbolt blue bands around the base of the pastals forming a lovely small pattern of rings together. Its shaped like a tulip, if a tulip had slightly longer pastals and curly torns that is. They can smell a faint hint of sweet yet lightly bitter smell coming for it.

‘Now what in blues hell is this? Poppy do you know what this flower is?’ Hickory ask as he looks at the plant. Its very nice to look at and would make a wounderfull gift to a loved one, but dose not go near it. Neither he nor Dickory knew if it was safe to go anywere near it. No doubt that something had to be wrong if only the flower was the only thing to bloom in that pond. He dose not get a anwser for a while, the queen busy with her herb book to see what they have stumblot onpond.

‘Thats very strange. Its not in the book.’ the pink troll say with a mumble. She looks at the two and ask ‘ are there any sticks or stones near bye that we can throw? We need to check that its not a pond lucker. Those things are rightout nasty to deal with and I rather like to keep my arms or legs intact.’ A shiver gos down her spine when she think what happened to the last party group that went out to gather stuff from the deepest part of the forest. From a 35 group to only 14 coming back, almost half of them missing limbs thanks only to dose things. Was it not for that 2 of them had realy good aim, more would have been lost.

‘I think a saw some over there by the river. Gimme a min’ Dickory say as he runs there to get some. When he comes back the three of them each choice a spot to hit, but noting happens. They to it a few more times, just to be sure but is just a normal pond. Relief settels in a bit, but they move slowly near the flower. Once they are near enough, Poppy takes a few minutes to look at it, than take out a pair of gloves, a sturdy looking glass jar and a small spade.

‘Don’t tell me your gonna take that flower with you?!’ Dickory almost shouts. ‘It can’t be safe if it is the only thing that living in this damn pond!’

‘I have to. This area is the closest to the villiage when it comes to get these types of herbs. The others can take weeks to go to and fro. Finding a plant that we know nothing about so close here, I have to take this to our herbalists to find out what it is. For all we know it might do more harm than good to this area’ Poppy anwser back, most of her focus on the plant, not knowing how true her words would become.

Once she got it in the jar, she looks at them and says ‘Its best we go now. We don’t need to be here any longer’ the hunters agree with both of them tur-

‘WAAAAAA’ a scream comes out of Branch traped yet again in another nightmare that he can’t wake up from, sending Poppy out of her thoughts and chair like a rocket crash and running to him. She hugs him while the trolling continue to scream his heart out, his fear clear as day, small fists hitting her chest every now and then. His not stoping and his sob aren’t getting better either.

*My poor poor Branch. Why do you have to suffer more of this?* rings in her head, well aware that her boyfriend haven’t had this kind of nightmare in a long time. It seems fate still wanted to give the troll some more grief. All she can do now is hold him tight, whisper sweet nothings and patt his back.

Slowly but surely Branch began to calm down, and slowly Poppy sings whatever her tried mind can come up with right now not careing if they fit with the song whats so ever.

Sweet baby mine don’t cry

The moons here to sing you a lullaby

And am here to sing with stars

Sweet baby mine don’t cry

We are all here to make you smile

She continues to sing as Branch slowly starts falling to a peacefull slumber, but Poppy know its not over yet. She lays him back to bed makeing sure not to wake him. Once she sure his going to sleep a bit more she drags herself to her own bed try to get some rest before Branch wakes with another scream.

#trolls #trolls world tour #deage au #branch #poppy #hickory

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itwilltoteshappen · 7 years

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(1/6) Thanks for being so kind and friendly and allowing people to speak their minds on your blog even if you don't agree. You know, sometimes I can almost understand why people become ex-larries/houies--it's forbidden to say something about Louis that isn't the party line. Having doubts about him instantly labels you as a mean anti/houie. People are afraid to speak up about it, and that's horrible. It's not much better than bullying. I hate when antis call larries a cult, but

(2/6) there’s one thing larries become cult-like: Louis. I don’t know why it is that way, but it gets really old, you know? We’re all adults, but bullying those who dare to have an opinion different from the crowd puts a bad taste in my mouth and takes me back to my high school days. Don’t people get that this type of behavior is exactly why people leave the Larry fandom? Not because they necessarily stop believing in Larry, but because of the toxic attitude toward those who dare to think

(3/6) a little differently about Louis than the majority? Thinking that Louis might have different ambitions doesn’t make Louis a bad person or Larry less real. I wish people around here learned that thinking differently isn’t an attack against Louis and Larry. People are allowed to have doubts in real life without instantly becoming a “closeted anti.” I’ll never be an anti: I believe the boys are in love and together, but perhaps out perception of the boys was wrong. We don’t know them.(4/6) I mean, Louis managed to hide Jay’s illness for a year; what are the odds of us knowing his inner thoughts and ambitions? Louis is the only one who still has so many ties to OT, so I think having doubts is very normal. NOT having them at all is actually strange. I love the boys, but they aren’t perfect idols who can do no wrong. They’re people, with flaws and bad decisions. I’m not gonna justify everything they do and make excuses for them to make them fit into this idea of them I have.

(5/6) Don’t Het harries do the same with Harry? They blindly deny his less than het actions and words, reaching to find explanations for them. Larries do the same thing do with Louis. The world isn’t black and white. There’s gray, too. We aren’t sheep. We should be allowed to have different opinions on Louis’ actions without people attacking us for our thoughts and accusing us of being antis. It makes me so sad, because Larry fandom is wonderful otherwise and I’ve made some great friends here.

(6/6) But I’m afraid to tell even them about my doubts, and I fucking hate it. It’s not healthy and it really ruins my fandom experience. I can’t just delete and make friends with antis, because I think they’re wrong about Larry; I can’t be a houie because I don’t think the boys broke up. Where are people like me supposed to go? People who believe in Larry, think they’re still together, but have a different opinion on the boys than the majority of Larry fandom? I’m tired, B.

awwwwww babe, I’m so so so so SO sorry you’re feeling this way. I can definitely see you’re in a tough place. I think people are particularly defensive because they’ve been attacked for so long. The bigger blogs in particular get sent a lot of hate on a daily basis. And if it’s NOT straight up hate, it’s antis trolling pretending to be doubters just so they can take what the responses are back and either laugh at it or twist words which in turn leads to more people sending more hate. I’ve never seen fandom dynamics like this. I understand where it comes from, sure, leading alllllll they way back for years, but that unfortunately doesn’t help fix the situation now.

People ARE very protective of Louis here. He’s been shut down so much, fans were afraid of him for so long, people have called him such ugly names and talked shit about him, and then not to mention the fact that he recently went through a personal tragedy.

While i understand what you’re trying to say regarding het harries, for me the argument doesn’t quite hold up. They’re basing their perception on Harry on what the media says about him and not looking deeper into what he’s actually saying. I”m not trying to be rude here, but to me that’s what it seems like you’re doing with Louis. You’re basing it on what’s publicly being said, and not the things that we’ve observed upon closer inspection.

I do agree with you that none of the boys are perfect by any means and I do agree that we definitely don’t know Louis’ innermost thoughts, but…I guess my question to you is, who DO you think he is exactly? What do you think his ambitions are? if you take a look at everything he’s done publicly (and this is removing any personal feelings, anything having to do with Larry, just stating what’s been publicly shown) he’s kind of all over the place. He’s got a UK label supposedly working with a US girl band. A manager that handles on camera personalities based in the UK and is also listed as a solo artist on their website. He’s got a US based agent that deals with actor/musicians. He just released a solo song through a US based label. He signed with a UK based PR firm but let a completely separate UK based PR firm handle the PR for his single.

To me, just looking at those facts alone, I have absolutely no clue what this person wants to do next. I didn’t even add in the fact that we know he’s an amazing songwriter who enjoys doing that as well. So then that’s when I take a look at it from things i’ve OBSERVED which, sure, that’s open to interpretation, but from what i’ve seen, that’s not a kid that’s not exactly on friendly terms with Simon Cowell. So that’s when I start asking why. And even, as I mentioned yesterday, from a purely business standpoint, certain things don’t make sense to me. Which leads me to ask MORE whys. and THEN finally as my very last step, I look at it from a Larry point of view and find even MORE whys on TOP of those whys.

I’m not here to try to change your mind, I”m just showing my thought process. I really am curious to know what your thoughts are and why you came to the conclusions you’ve come to.

I wish I had more advice about your friends. I don’t know them, but I would think if they’re legitimately good people if you come to them privately and say “hey, so i’ve been thinking about this particular situation and this is how I see it. I see it this way because…” and explain yourself that they’ll understand. They might not agree, but as long as you’re not an asshole about it (which obviously you aren’t) and as long as you present it with valid reasons why you feel that way, if they’re your friends, they should understand. Maybe also look into finding some blogs that are just here to enjoy the boys and don’t do so much speculation on either side of the spectrum. There’s still joy to be found here. Lots of big solo projects to look forward to and even a film! Focus on the things you love about these boys and not the drama surrounding the fandom. And you’re welcome to chat with me any time!

#little louis #business talk #media image #Anonymous

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dables · 6 years

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Every Single Show I’ve Ever Played 2006-2018

A few things to note:

-The bands I have played live with are Death Mullet, Dables, Mr. Waffle, Closet Monster, DAN, Trolls, and Supergroup Rivals......a few other projects that I have played or recorded with at some point, but never played an actual show with are The Omnipotent Berserkers, Odetta, and Last Castle.

-Any time Dables is listed from 2006-2010, it was a solo performance. From 2011 on, it was a full band performance unless otherwise noted. -The bands listed for each show are in the order they performed in, the top being the band that played last, the bottom being the first band of the show.

-Some shows I bothered to write down the setlist and if so, they are listed here, other shows I did not.

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1. 6/3/06 - Fountain Inn Civic Center Fountain Inn, SC

Death Mullet The Map Says We're Fucked Me and Sir Octagon The Autumn Militia Sk3ptik@l Dables

2. 6/21/2006 - Ground Zero (open mic night I think) Spartanburg, SC

The Sharpest Knives in The Drawer Among Thieves some other punk band, can’t remember Death Mullet

3. 7/8/2006 - Ground Zero Spartanburg, SC

River Chicken Sleazoid Mafia 666 Death Mullet Sk3ptik@l

4. 7/29/2006 - Ground Zero Spartanburg, SC

Headsnap From Graves of Valor Death Mullet one other band, can’t remember their name

5. 10/3/2006 - Ground Zero Spartanburg, SC Vital Remains Dismember Grave Recourse Blade of The Ripper Demericous Death Mullet

-In December 2006, Death Mullet had booked a show at Ground Zero and canceled it, I remember a band called Sugahim was playing, I still have the flyer on a hard drive somewhere, effectively the end of Death Mullet.

6,7,8. Sometime between March-May 2007: played three different shows as Mr. Waffle at The Pickin' Parlor in Greenville, SC

9,10. Sometime between June-August 2007 Dables played two shows at Keller's House Party Satan in Bondage also performed at both This was the first time “Powerglove Bitchslap” was performed

Sometime in September 2007: -Was supposed to play as Mr. Waffle at Ground Zero, but Jake didn't show up. But Ko (now known as Company or Brian Robert Hannon) played their first show along with John Edgerton opening and some other band I can't remember.

11. Early October 2007 played first acoustic Dables mini-show at R3V3RB---I think I played Feeling Close to Throwing Up or either some Ween song to about 6-7 people. Was some sort of open mic night thing, but nobody showed up. I only played about three songs and then just politely left.

12. 10/13/2007 - R3V3RB (first location) 810 Pendleton St Greenville, SC

Dables Quetzatl Clippzclippedoutclippings Collaboration with Sounds SCF

-performed Powerglove Bitchslap in it’s entirety

13. sometime November 2007 - Dables played open mic night at R3V3RB various musicians played, about 6 different acts. I think Clippzclippedoutclippings was there, I remember a duo playing two chord organs, also a few acoustic guitar singer/songwriters....also Justin Blackburn was reading some poetry too. Alex (from Death Mullet, Closet Monster, and he produced a bunch of Dables stuff) got up and played some lead acoustic guitar on Psychedelic Mess, marking his first time playing at a show since the final Death Mullet show.

setlist: Are You in The Wrong World/various tape manipulation noise Sally/various tape manipulation nose (acoustic set) The Generic Song Psychedelic Mess Feeling Close To Throwing Up My Brain Itches Mozzarella Swastikas

14. 12/28/2007 - R3V3RB (first location) 810 Pendleton St Greenville, SC

Preacher's Gun Good Friends, Bad Company Dables

-performed Powerglove Bitchslap in it’s entirety

15. 2/15/2008 - R3V3RB (first location) 810 Pendleton St Greenville, SC

Ko Coma Cinema Days Off Screen Dables

-performed Powerglove Bitchslap in it’s entirety

16. 4/19/2008 - Cooks Bridge Rd. Party in the woods Fountain Inn,SC

The Blueroots The Nitekrawlers Ko Durbin Creek Dables Shallow Palace

-Performed Powerglove Bitchslap in it’s entirety. -They did not like me, haha.......wrong set to the wrong crowd. I should’ve done an acoustic set but at the time I felt like going all out and giving them Powerglove Bitchslap instead. 4 or 5 people laughed their asses off and had a great time during my set, I remember one drunk guy was hugging me and blubbering for like 10 minutes after the show telling me how much he loved my set. The rest of ‘em...couldn’t WAIT for me to finish as nerdcore hip hop wasn’t their thing I guess...and they let me know it hahaha!! Oh well, I got drunk as hell afterwards and slept in my car, had a great night overall, despite those who got annoyed by the novelty white boy rapper for 35ish minutes. Shallow Palace, Ko, and The Blueroots all absolutely killed it and played amazing sets which all blew me away. Those three bands were all in their prime in ‘08.

Ko had recently released “The Opposite of What You Would Call Ordinary” with their original drummer Kelly who passed away a few years later, and they played one of the best shows I’ve ever seen in my life, with so much energy, thank god I didn’t have to go after them, I wouldn’t of done it, I would’ve just said “Nah, I’m not playing anymore tonight!”. They were amazing, and made everyone there a fan that night. Top it off with equally energetic and amazing sets from Shallow Palace and The Blueroots....it’s an honor and also slighty embarrassing that they let me do my stupid thing the same night as Ko, Shallow Palace, and The Blueroots were all at their peak, performing mind-blowing sets and such an awesome display of musicianship and talent, out on a wooden stage, surrounded by trees out in the middle of Nowheresville....should’ve played that acoustic set LOL.

17. 5/24/2008 - Ground Zero Spartanburg, SC

Dables hour long two part show 1 half acoustic folk/1 half nerdcore rap the other band booked did not show up, can’t remember who it was

1st set:(not correct order) Mozzarella Swastikas Plastic Jesus My Brain Itches Zero Amounts of Shit Brown Eyed Angel Psychedelic Mess Feeling Close to Throwing Up

2nd set: Powerglove Bitchslap performance

18. 9/20/2008-R3V3RB (second location) 109 Augusta Rd Greenville, SC

Oddknock Epileptic Fit (Jake Xingu) Clippzclippedoutclippings Closet Monster

19. 2/27/2009 - R3V3RB (third location) 11 College St Greenville, SC

Closet Monster The Fuzz Cremes The Pedestrians Magicool Beauty Fool (Jake Xingu)

20. 4/11/2009 - Cooks Bridge Rd Party in the Woods Fountain Inn, SC

The Blueroots Closet Monster (final show with Jake on drums and Kenny puked on stage) The Nitekrawlers John Edgerton and some others

-Sometime in May or June 2009 is when me and my roommate/cousin Kenny got robbed, and I moved out in late Oct-early Nov 2009.

21. 12/5/2009 - House Show Fountain Inn, SC

Dables Satan in Bondage Coma Cinema

-Dables did two sets, as well as played drums/percussion for Coma Cinema

1st set: All The Retards Are Gettin' Married Eat Acid and Listen to The Boredoms Love Will Rise Above Brown Eyed Angel Psychedelic Mess I Have Nothing Important To Say Zero Amounts of Shit The Generic Song

encore: We Don't Need No Drummer

2nd set: Powerglove Bitchslap in it's entirety with Keller as 'Tha Hype Man Supremo'

22. 3/12/2010 - The Hangar Greenville, SC

Peelander Z Math The Band Now in 3-D (this was their first show) Dables

setlist: All The Retards Are Gettin’ Married Eat Acid and Listen to The Boredoms Boredumb Nancy Botwin Love Headache I Have Nothing Important to Say We Don’t Need No Drummer Welcome to Reality This is Nothing The Generic Song

23. 5/21/2010 - The Apartment Fountain Inn, SC

Dables DAN Albino Satan in Bondage

setlist: Love Headache All The Retards Are Gettin’ Married Boredumb Welcome to Reality Kill and Die (with Sid on vocals) Eat Acid and Listen To The Boredoms Facenose I Have Nothing Important To Say A Smiling Piece of Plastic

24. 5/28/2010 - Ground Zero Spartanburg, SC

The Emotron Culture Prophet Hectagons The Lizard and The Lady Dables

full set: Love Headache Eat Acid and Listen To The Boredoms All The Retards (cut short due to time...I was super late to the show, long story)

25. 6/26/2010 - The Apartment Fountain Inn,SC

Jake Xingu Dables Albino Satan in Bondage Justin Blackburn DAN setlist: Eat Acid and Listen to The Boredoms Love Headache All The Retards Are Gettin’ Married Boredumb Zero Amounts of Shit I Have Nothing Important to Say We’re All Fucked! Something (Butthole Surfers cover)

26. 7/5/2010 - The Hangar Greenville, SC

The Codependents Ditching Cody Forgetting Fera The Beer Sluggers DAN Satan in Bondage & like 2 more I think

-This ended up being the final DAN show. -Early December 2010 is when the current lineup with Jake Garrett and Cody Blackwell first got together.

27. 3/17/2011 - Karma Greenville, SC

Dables and The Fountain Inn Jam Sadplant Dirtbag Love Affair Coma Cinema Satan in Bondage

Setlist: All The Retards Boredumb Paint The Town Brown Love Headache Sorry Entertainer Hey Sid I Live My Broken Dreams Effervescing Elephant Piece of Rock Sleepytime

-Our first show we were stupidly billed as Dables and The Fountain Inn Jam because that’s we named the first demo we recorded as a 3 piece. Dropped that dumb name after 1 show. Cody played drums on Broken Dreams, Effervescing Elephant, Piece of Rock, and Sleepytime which we did for at least a year until we decided to keep Cody on bass and Jake on drums for every song (except Sleepytime).

28. 3/25/2011 - Karma Greenville, SC

Mason Jar Menagerie Dables The Blueroots

setlist: All The Retards Boredumb Paint The Town Brown Love Headache (first time with new drum intro) Sorry Entertainer Lady Sniff Hey Sid I Live My Broken Dreams Effervescing Elephant Piece of Rock Sleepytime Negative Superman

29. 4/09/2011 - Suite 8 Greenville, SC

Terrorist as Terror Transient as As Cities Burn The Soap as Black Sabbath Satan in Bondage as Nirvana Dables Plays Daniel Johnston Reuben from The Francis Vertigo as Neutral Milk Hotel

setlist: I Live My Broken Dreams Museum of Love Phantom of My Own Opera Casper The Friendly Ghost Get Yourself Together Devil Town Funeral Home

-was supposed to play 4/23/2011 at Karma with Shoot The Blitz, Junkhat, Luna's Lament, Shadow of Myself, K Trik E, but we couldn't show up and canceled---me and Keller went to the show anyways, and Shadow of Myself's equipment got stolen out of their van in the parking lot.

30. 5/13/2011 - Gumby's Food and Spirits Greenville, SC

Mason Jar Menagerie Dables The Blueroots

setlist: All The Retards Paint The Town Brown Boredumb Love Headache Sorry Entertainer Casper The Friendly Ghost Hey Sid Nancy Botwin I Live My Broken Dreams Effervescing Elephant Piece of Rock Sleepytime Negative Superman

31. 6/25/2011 - Ground Zero Spartanburg, SC

-There were 2 shows this night. An early show with metalcore bands and a late show with the “weirder” bands.

(2nd show:) The Emotron Johnny Tango Jake Xingu Dables

(1st show:) Destruction of A King Adalia Labyrinthe Silence Autumns Blood

our set: All The Retards Paint The Town Brown Red Eye Boredumb Casper The Friendly Ghost Sorry Entertainer Nancy Botwin Sleepytime

32. 7/1/2011 - The Radio Room Greenville, SC

Din of Thieves The Head Dables

-First time playing Radio Room

setlist: All The Retards Paint The Town Brown Red Eye Boredumb Love Headache Sorry Entertainer Casper The Friendly Ghost Hey Sid Nancy Botwin I Live My Broken Dreams Effervescing Elephant Piece of Rock Sleepytime Negative Superman

33. 9/15/2011 - The Radio Room Greenville, SC

Dables Mason Jar Menagerie Can't Kids

34. 10/7/2011 - Cooks Bridge Deep Roots Family Records Festival Fountain Inn, SC

The Foothills Toe Jam Mason Jar Menagerie Dables The Blueroots Chicken Jam

setlist: The Void All The Retards Casper The Friendly Ghost Sorry Entertainer Hey Sid Boredumb Paint The Town Brown Love Headache Nancy Botwin Sleepytime

35. 11/18/2011 - The Radio Room (BENNYFIT) Greenville, SC

Dables Mason Jar Menagerie The Blueroots

36. 02/3/2012 - The Artistry Greenville, SC

Romancing The Devil Dables (acoustic solo set) DJ Fernando

setlist: Love Will Rise Above Negative Superman Desperate Man Feeling Close to Throwing Up Demoralize Your Mind Psychedelic Mess I Did Acid with Caroline (Johnston cover) The Generic Song No Matter Where I Go

37. 02/17/2012 - Cody's House Party Fountain Inn, SC

Dables Mason Jar Menagerie Fed to Lions (The Foothills Toe Jam was supposed to play but the cops shut us down)

38. 03/17/2012 - The Radio Room Greenville, SC

Dables M is We Two People Playing Music

-almost got busted by cops for smoking weed in the parking lot this night, right before we played. The cops were super open minded and just confiscated what we had and said not to do it again. Nobody got arrested!

setlist: The Void Paint The Town Brown All The Retards Are Gettin’ Married Love Headache Casper The Friendly Ghost Sorry Entertainer Boredumb Nancy Botwin Hey Sid Red Eye Awkwardly Awkward Piece of Rock Sleepytime

39. 06/16/2012 - The Radio Room Greenville, SC

CD Release Show for "Dables"

Dables Halmos Foothills Toe Jam

setlist: Looks Like Rain (1st time) Paint The Town Brown Mountain Dew (1st time) All The Retards Are Gettin’ Married Boredumb Love Headache Sorry Entertainer Wasn’t Good Enough Live Forever (1st time) Nancy Botwin Awkwardly Awkward The Void Sleepytime

40. 07/6/2012 - The Radio Room Greenville, SC

Fed to Lions Dables Red Pines Of All Trades

41. 7/7/2012 - Steve Sancho's Practice Space 802 Columbia, SC

not really a show but about 6 people saw us practice, so I'm counting it, mostly because it was the first time we played outside of the upstate, and this is where we recorded the main tracks for our split with Mason Jar Menagerie titled “Deep Roots For Sale”

42. 8/28/2012 - The Radio Room Greenville, SC

Andy D Dables The No Counts

43. 10/20/2012 - The House Simpsonville, SC

Mason Jar Menagerie Dables The Foothills Toe Jam The Gypsy Queens Red Pines The Blueroots

44. 11/3/2012 - The Radio Room Greenville, SC

Dables Red Pines Killing Kuddles

-Killing Kuddles band didn’t show up because his drummer got arrested or something, so he did a solo set using only an electric guitar.

45. 11/9/2012 - Casa de Santengelo (Ryan's House Show) Greenville, SC

Sun Sweet Sun Dables Blast & The Detergents Francis Vertigo

46. 12/21/2012 - The Radio Room Greenville, SC

Dables MEH Crocker Katalyst Trublklef

-Billed as “The End of The World” show due to that stupid Mayan calendar thing. Death metal band Vindictive Sovereign was supposed to play but canceled like two days before. This was a benefit show to help fund a new venue called Garaj Mahal, which ended up only lasting about a two years. But that was two years worth of great shows, so I’ll give them that.

47. 03/03/2013 - The Radio Room Greenville, SC

Mason Jar Menagerie Company Dables (acoustic set with the full band)

setlist: The Size of The Moon Negative Superman Frank (Ween) She Fucks Me (Ween) Don’t Worry I’m in Heaven Now Falling Apart Willow Garden Love Will Rise Above

48. 04/20/2013 - Garaj Mahal Greenville, SC MEH Dables They Eat Their Own God Rubrics Satan in Bondage

-Cody got arrested while driving home after this show. They tried to get him on possession and a DUI even though he was completely sober. The cop searched his car and found a small one-hitter bowl with resin in it that he didn’t even remember was in the car, but there was no actual weed in the car. He was able to get everything dropped to a possession of paraphernalia misdemeanor. He got busted on 4/20 for not being high.With a vehicle full of instruments and amplifiers. Oh, and one little tiny pipe with nothing in it. What tremendous irony and misfortune. Cody probably doesn’t remember this night too fondly. I remember Rubrics covering Negative Creep and they had begun writing sludgier, heavier material lately that they played and it was a blast. I remember They Eat Their Own God being especially gross and brutal crust punk that I enjoyed. And of course Keller and the MEH boys did their thing and were both awkwardly awesome and satisfyingly weird. The crowd went nuts, heavy moshing at this show, perhaps the biggest pit we have played to. Those punk kids know how to slam, and they do it the entire show. Great show. Aside from Cody getting arrested.

49. 07/20/2013 - Garaj Mahal Greenville, SC The Unit MEH Divulgence Waft Dables Rubrics Interstellar Upstarts Now in 3D Weapon YZ The Devil & St. Pat

-This show was called Gusto Fest 2 and we played it without Cody on the bass, just me and Jake because Cody couldn’t get the day off work for some reason. It also marks the first performance of the song “Utterly Pointless” with Jake on drums during it.

50. 08/8/2013 - Cabin Floor Records Greenville, SC

Satan in Bondage Permanent Makeup Dables Weapon YZ

51. 11/22/2013 - The Radio Room Greenville, SC

Grown Up Avenger Stuff Dables Young International

52. 12/14/2013 - Garaj Mahal Greenville, SC

Rubrics as Nirvana Interstellar Upstarts as Minor Threat Chunx as Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Now in 3D as The Misfits People of Mars as The Beatles Dables as Daniel Johnston

53. 01/11/2014 - The House Simpsonville, SC

Dables 72nd and Central Sun Brother

54. 2/6/2014 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Dables The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt Michael Parallax Four AM Friends

55. 5/22/2014 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Dables Laundry Day Revolt Plan 8 People of Mars

56. 6/12/2014 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Mason Jar Menagerie Dumb Doctors Dables

57. 6/18/2014 - Makeout Manor (Alex From Rubrics House Show) Greenville,SC

Dirty Kills Rubrics Dables Lewis Turn Out

58. 9/28/2014 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Dables Couches People of Mars

59. 10/31/2014 - House of Mars (Sid & Clayton's House) Simpsonville, SC

Shoot The Blitz The Hilary Keane Project John The Revelator Dables Anarcho Aggression Sun Brother -Halloween 2014, this was SPOOKYFEST. People of Mars, MEH, Crocker, Jubbyfuk, Wasted Wine, and Jericho Bros were supposed to play but didn't due to rain (this was an outdoor show) and/or canceling the week of the show, and also cops getting called and shutting the show down early. It was a great success with much shenanigans and things going wrong, but everyone was stoned and drunk and we played one of the best sets we have ever played while dressed as Jesus, a Ghostbuster, and Burt Reynolds.I think Shoot The Blitz played 3 and 1/2 songs, then the show got shut down completely by the cops because we were being loud as hell. Great show.

60. 12/31/2014 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Mason Jar Menagerie A Moment Electric Dables

61. 3/20/2015 - The House Simpsonville, SC

Mason Jar Menagerie John The Revelator Durbin Creek String Band Dables Before There Were Gods Amy Harrison Chad Hudson (didn't play because he got arrested mere hours before the show. Nobody knew where he was until the show was practically over, when someone finally found out that he just got arrested earlier that day.)

62. 4/25/2015 - The House Simpsonville, SC

Dables Fed to Lions James Nichols & The Limbs

63. 5/1/2015 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Dalmatian Mamma Bear Dables Wounded Hollow

64. 5/19/2015 - The House Simpsonville, SC

Mason Jar Menagerie Dables Battle Ave (they didn't show up, so Dables played a longer than usual set and Mason Jar played two sets. Basically took over The House for several hours, as usual)

65. 6/19/2015 - The Soundbox Tavern (formerly The House) Simpsonville, SC

Dables The Long Canes Chad Hudson Mason Jar Menagerie Amy Lynne Harrison The Forty Bale John The Revelator

-Before There Were Gods were supposed to close out the show but didn’t play because of how late it was. We didn’t finish our set until about 1:00 AM.

66. 11/21/2015 - The Royal American Charleston, SC

The Long Canes Dables Before There Were Gods Mason Jar Menagerie Amy Lynne Harrison Chad Hudson John The Revelator

67. 1/19/2016 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

The Emotron Dables Jack Toft

68. 1/29/2016 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Dables Crown The Cake Jericho Brothers

69. 5/6/2016 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Before There Were Gods (CD Release) Dables Babylon

70. 5/28/2016 - Art Bar Columbia, SC

Axattack Semicasual Hollowborn Dables Alley Way

71. 6/3/2016 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Dables Odd Television

-This was the 10 Year Anniversary of Dables show. We did two full 50 minute sets. The first one was half solo songs, the way my shows were from 2006-2010, and half an acoustic full band set. The second set was a “regular” Dables electric full band set.

72. 7/2/2016 - The Soundbox Tavern Simpsonville, SC

The Indoor Kids Floco Torres The Reason You Stayed Solaire Dables Bizness Suit Actual Something

-Sun Brother was supposed to close out this show as they were the ones who booked the whole thing, billed as “Bandcamp 2″, but had to cancel due to one the members having health issues.

73. 10/15/2016 - Frets and Necks Fest Hartsville, SC

Festival with 50+ bands including Deep Roots Family Records bands: Dables Mason Jar Menagerie Amy Lynne Reed The Last Southern Gentlemen (formerly Chad Hudson) John The Revelator

-This would turn out to be the final Dables show with Jake and Cody as Jake decided to take an indefinite hiatus from Dables as he focuses more on his other projects such as Mason Jar Menagerie and John The Revelator. However, we may get back together again someday (never officially broke up, just went on indefinite hiatus) but as of today (7/7/18) I have not played with Jake and Cody at the same time since this show.

74. 11/18/2016 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Trolls (FIRST SHOW!) Glass Mansions Snoot

--Canceled a Dables show at Soundbox Tavern on 11/26/16 because Cody couldn't get off work (John The Revelator and Amy Lynne Reed still played though). --Canceled a Trolls show at Radio Room on 1/7/17 because of snow (Hugger Mugger and Joie were supposed to play too).

75. 2/4/2017 - Gottrocks Greenville, SC

Mason Jar Menagerie Trolls Matt Gleason

76. 3/4/2017 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Glass Mansions Trolls Hugger Mugger

--On 3/19/2017 played 3 Trolls songs (Backseat Rider, Left and Right, Pocket Dimension Person) followed by an improvisation 10-15 minute jam with a different drummer (can’t remember his name-I met him about an hour before we played) at Saluda River Yacht Club in Greenville, SC at Mickey's birthday party because Naveed (Trolls drummer) didn’t show up, although this was never an “official” show anyways, more of a last-minute “you guys want to play a few songs tonight?” kinda thing, so I’m not counting it as an official show. Our friends Shit Karate did a 30 min set afterwords as well.

77. 3/26/2017 - Nophest Atlanta, GA

in order: (our set was 4:45-5:15pm) The Downs, Holders, The Bantam Breaks, Heatbunnies, Trolls, Sex Farm, 20K Leagues Under The Sea, The Callous Daoboys, Glass Mansions, Alabama Rose, Digigost, Eureka Failure, A Very Loud Death

-This was a 3 day weekend festival being held in a warehouse with no A/C and no real sound man/good equipment. Extremely DIY. We played on Sunday. I remember sweating profusely, not being able to hear my band, while about 20 people watched us. They seemed to like it. We played right after a punk band that wore giant Easter bunny outfits. Good stuff.

78. 4/15/2017 - Merck Mountain Festival Central, SC

Mason Jar Menagerie Adam Carter Trolls Tiger Junction -This was an outdoor show in the middle of nowhere. The Merck family had set up a small “stage” in front of a garage on their property that was literally in the middle of the woods. You had to drive down a mile of dirt road just to get to where the stage was. The festival lasted two days, with people camping out and everything. We didn’t attend the second night which the lineup was Dustin Owens & The First Amendment, Bad Mojo, Silver Tounge Devils, sympL, Lionz of Zion, Taught By Heroes, and Evan’s Dilemma. Naveed was on shrooms at this show, and had an episode with some racist hillbillies that he managed to work into his youtube show The Cinco Sanders Show in a hilarious way. We played a really solid set too, probably the tightest one we ever did, everyone was firing on all cylinders to these drunk white southerners out in the woods of Central, SC, and they all could tell that Trolls was killing it that night, whether they understood what was happening or not, they just heard the rock n roll. Most of the people up front did anyways, I dunno about the rest of the crowd...Regardless, I think this was my favorite Trolls show.

79. 4/28/2017 - Gottrocks Greenville, SC

Superbob Trolls

80. 5/20/2017 - Saluda River Yacht Club Greenville, SC

Trolls The Alternative Facts (Saluda River Yacht Club House Band)

-This was Trolls final show with original drummer Naveed, as he moved away to Portland a month or so afterwards.

81. 9/1/2017 - Radio Room (New Location in old IPA building!) Greenville, SC

The Winter Sounds Pinky Doodle Poodle The Indoor Kids Trolls

-This was both our new drummer Truston’s first and last show with Trolls. A week or two after the show, Caleb (Trolls vocalist) told everyone he would soon be moving to California to be with his wife’s family. Since he was the one who started the band, we decided to end it. Can’t have Trolls without Caleb =(.

82. 2/22/2018 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

St Maurice The Buzzards of Fuzz Supergroup Rivals (first show)

83. 4/23/2018 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

The Boo Jays (reunion show) Supergroup Rivals

84. 4/30/2018 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Supergroup Rivals Eureka California Inside Out and Backwards

85. 7/24/2018 - Ground Zero (2nd location) Spartanburg, SC

Cut Throat Freakshow The Emotron Supergroup Rivals

86. 1/11/2019 - Radio Room Greenville, SC

Supergroup Rivals (EP & Short Film Release) The Accuser III Kings Evan’s Dilemma

87. 1/18/2019 - Ground Zero Spartanburg, SC III Kings Supergroup Rivals 72nd and Central

88. 2/22/2019 - Eighth State Brewing Company Pinky Doodle Poodle Supergroup Rivals

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That’s it so far. 80+ official shows, plus a handful of “unofficial” ones in 13 years. And many that got booked and fell through for every reason imaginable. Besides one show in Atlanta, I have never played a show outside of South Carolina. My goal was never really to be a big, touring musician anyways. My lifestyle just wouldn’t support that. My goals and passions have mostly been focused on writing and recording music, with occasional shows for fun. I do wish that I had played a lot more and been more active about booking shows, as I did the majority of the booking myself at most of these shows in this list. I do hope to do some small East Coast tours some day, but chances of that are slim. But I do have a LOT of recorded material, which was always my real goal anyways, just to record the ideas that I get for songs and make albums that I enjoy and am proud of, and that will last forever as a complete piece of music that anyone can listen to, at any time. My plans for the future is to start playing more shows out of town and recording some new music with Supergroup Rivals, and hopefully get Jake and Cody to do Dables again, whether it just be another album or play a few local shows, among other projects. I’m going to finish this blog off with a list of all the lineups of my bands, since none of this would of been possible without all the great musicians and friends I have played with the past 12 years. Cheers, dudes.

Death Mullet (lineup 1): David Walker - bass,vocals Matt Spearman - guitar Cody Blackwell - drums Death Mullet (lineup 2): David Walker - vocals Cody Blackwell - guitar, backing vocals Alex Murray - bass Jake Garrett - drums

Mr. Waffle: Cody Blackwell - guitar David Walker - bass Jake Garrett - drums Closet Monster: David Walker - bass, vocals, guitar, drum machines Alex Murray - guitar Adam Young - keyboards, percussion, backing vocals

Dables: David Walker - guitar, vocals Cody Blackwell - bass, vocals Jake Garrett - drums DAN: Sid Shurer - vocals, keyboards David Walker - guitar, vocals, drum machine Clayton Marks - bass, vocals

Trolls (lineup 1): Caleb Riley - vocals Mickey Kriese - guitar, vocals David Walker - bass, backing vocals Cinco Sanders - drums, percussion Trolls (lineup 2): Caleb Riley - vocals Mickey Kriese - guitar, vocals David Walker - bass, backing vocals Truston Carter - drums Supergroup Rivals: Zach Guttery - guitar, vocals Mickey Kriese - guitar, vocals David Walker - bass Chris Larocque - drums

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The genres of all my bands are as such: Death Mullet (metal, grindcore, comedy rock, hard rock) Mr. Waffle (experimental psychedelic rock, jam band)

DAN (psychedelic punk, comedy/novelty rock)

Closet Monster (noise, experimental psychedelic rock)

Trolls (punk ‘n roll, hard rock)

Supergroup Rivals (stoner rock, sludge metal, hard rock) Last Castle (raw black metal) Dables (everything....hard rock, stoner rock, comedy/novelty, psychedelic grunge, experimental, noise, punk, hip hop, electronic, traditional folk, folk rock, fuzzfolk, singer/songwriter stuff, stoner metal, sludge metal, avant-garde, synthpop, post-punk, shoegaze, funk, emo, pop, blues, alternative, garage rock, lo-fi slacker pop, total bullshit....pretty much you name it, Dables has experimented with all of the above and probably more.)

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