uh bleeeh so welcome to behind the white door everybody. [crowd woos]. oh good yeah you do care, great. so, uh, yeah, we've got four bands for you as usual. we're gonna start things with a local band tonight. I saw these guys playing with Percy in here not so long ago and I was like "fuck me I'll have some of that". Ladies and Gentlemen, the amazing, wild, trash rock of 7 Hour Darkness Invasion.

shut the fuck up ivy. uh content warning: um... I forget what we sing about. Self harm, alcoholism, depression. Are we doing a song about kink? I dunno I forget. Piss. Alright, just thought I'd let you know.

God this is just a bit much Stage is too bright crowd it too dark there's so much chatter and i'm way too I'm way too way too fucking sober we are 7 hour darkness invasion this our final show 1, 2, 3, 4 woke up from a daydream into a venue tell me if I go out of tune cause I don't know what I'm doing I don't know the lyrics I don't know the chords how the fuck do you play guitar how the fuck did I get this far how did I stay alive this long to sing you these songs with the blood I've lost you'd've thought that something would've gone wrong but here I am pouring out my heart to people I don't know I guess welcome to the show

so, as you've gathered from that song I don't drink, I'm straight edge. And that makes me really cool. The thing is with being straight edge, I do it because it's cool, everyone knows not taking drugs is really cool. I'm totally not doing it because I have to make sobriety part of my identity so I don't drink, it's just to be cool. So if you ever see me upset when I'm really sober, it's just- it's just a little joke to be cool you know. it's not a- it's not a real thing. so don't worry. this song is about pissing in amy's toilet. that's amy.

I don't drink anything except sparkling water and peppermint tea so when I'm screaming in your living room it's not the alcohol or caffeine it's just me what is art? i think to myself as i piss in amy's toilet and why do i sing along to every song that comes on even when i'm alone even when it's something that i don't know i just get this feeling in my bones and i gotta put on a show pat the bunny said "if you're not dancing then you might as well be dead" and that's ableist and untrue but it describes my attitude so if you wanna take my hand I'll show you what it means to do more than consume art to make it a part of who you are look around look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now look around look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now look around look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now look around look around at how fucking lucky we are.

this is the part where I introduce the band. amy can you get my water? so, to my right is annie, she/her pronouns, she plays guitar. to my left is ivy they/them pronouns, they play guitar. to my back is someone, he uses he/him pronouns, he just kinda shows up to gigs. (he also plays guitar) he does, very badly. if you ever want a good time try and watch dan jackson practice guitar. it's quite funny. this is a song about skateboarding.

(wrong note) (wrong note, fuck!) headed to the park riding her skateboard wearing a helmet the weather is nice sweet christ transgender skate punk goddess smsmsmmsmmsmms all the rest transgender skate punk goddess doing a kickflip in front of her partner gives them a kiss then adjusts her tuck oh fuck transgender skate punk goddess girls on wheels are the hottest transgender skate punk goddess cooler tricks than all the rest transgender skate punk goddess

this next song is by ilana del ray swinging in the backyard pull up in your fast car whistling my name open up a beer and you take it over here playin video games i'm in his favourite sundress watching me get undressed take that body downtown i say "you the bestest" lean in for a big kiss got his favourite perfume on playing video games it's you it's you it's all for you everything i do i tell you all the time heaven is a place on earth with you tell me all the things you wanna do i heard that you like the cis chicks honey is that true? better than i ever even knew they say that the world was built for two only worth living if somebody is loving you well baby now you do this wouldn't be a problem if you listened at the shows like half the band is trans so please don't call us bro and before you make the accusation yeah I'm a heterophobe and i want you to go get out of here with your cis bullshit this is a safe space and i'm willing to get violent go get out of here with your cis bullshit these are my friends and I'll do anything to protect them and if you try me i swear i will get violent

so I don't really know what I was gonna talk about here. I was maybe gonna say something about how I was having nightmare about this gig. but um, that's not a fun thing to talk about you know? anyone- any suggestions 'bout what you wanna hear me riff on? [some indecipherable bs from the crowd] *sighs* I'm not playing that tonight, the joke is we got a song called "another song". No, I'd like to thank uh, the one and only Mr Gott. I knew his name it was a joke. I'd like to thank- say thanks to Dan Gott for putting us on, for Pink Cowards for playing. I've heard mice are good, that should be fun. And uh, Dan Gott's brother's band, that should also be good. we got a great set lined up for you courtesy of the gott dan dan gott. (what are we even playing next?) (I don't even fucking know. fuck the scene it's fuck the scene)

(I don't even know how this fucking...) this song is called fuck the scene it's about how we fucking hate everybody. if you wanna book us please do (maybe... how does the song go?) 1, 2, 3, 4 another fucking night another fucking guy very cis very straight i'm feeling very in the way standing at the front cause i wanna be involved cause gigs are supposed to be fun you know? but i feel like i'm too judgemental or maybe these emo bands do just sound the same drunk children screaming about nothing shrouded in metaphor so they sound like something worth discussing i might go home i always go home i can't remember the last time i stayed until the end of a show but what would i listen to when i got back half the bands i loved are lead by abusers maybe i should watch a movie instead that is a joke i'm just too scared to care about any artist that i don't personally know anymore still got Brand New lyrics bouncing around my head I've grown up listening to abusive men whine about how empty they feel so forgive me if I'm dismissive about a similar kind of thing that's playing tonight that's playing every night that everyone i know seems to actually fucking like give up hope fuck the scene stay at home fuck the scene fight the future fuck the scene don't pay entry fuck the scene don't pay entry fuck the scene heckle constantly fuck the scene burn the place down fuck the scene kill your heroes fuck the scene

(what's next, how many songs do we have left?) this next song is a slow song. so if you wanna take a toke from your bong this is the appropriate song you know just to mellow out, have a little... yeah.

head from the pres to the party make it through the door and the music's so loud my ears might bleed which'd be fine but i'm not drinking. find some cutie try to chat but they can't hear anything I'm saying so i gotta scream "hey do you like memes do you like irony do you like jokes where the joke is that it's not funny?" and she laughs which is not the response i wanted but I'm not really sure what response i wanted so i dunno i guess i'm just being a fucking asshole again we talk about shitposting and the pages that we like and it's boring and it's pointless but i'm having a good time i guess at some point we become the acts we put on and that's fine "hey do you like my bloody valentine do you think that loveless is just the *scoffs* greatest album of all time do you wanna stroke your ego by saying the same old shit that everybody has already said about an album release like, what, 30 years ago?"

um, so we got a bandcamp and whatever. you can like us... we do have merch and cassettes but we didn't bring 'em. if you wanna just give me money, yeah feel free. our bandcamp is 7hdi.bandcamp.com. we have nine releases, we have 3 full lengths, 4 eps, a single, and a live album. that's more than any other fucking band in the scene. it's definitely quantity.

this is a song about falling down a hole. we ripped it off from a crywank song also about falling down a hole. falling down crywank's hole am i right? sex joke. 1, 2, 3- wait this is our last song. you can move forward or dance or whatever, do whatever the fuck you want, but this is our last song of our last ever show. just so you know. 1, 2, 3, 4. i'm tired it's in my blood and i'm starting to doubt whether i'll make it home this coat's not waterproof headphones broke again so i'm listening to the wind and the rain and the traffic thinking about the things i said trying to console a friend wishing that i knew how to be supportive just wanna take my wet clothes off and get back to bed but i mean it's not like i ever really rest cause when i try to go to sleep i hear people speak to me i hear drums beat distant screams it's a cacophony and in my dreams i get deadnamed by my friends and i try and fail to save my ex again and again i'm tired you could say i'm fatigued is it a symptom of some disease or is it just me? got this internalised fear of disability i'm acting like it's no different from dying i don't know how to express this anxiety i'm not even sure that i should try is this my place to speak? is this song worth anything? is this art or am i just spiralling? my face hurts i'm still not back i hate this place but i'm fucking trapped would move to the states but i can't get insurance the wife and i would die so goddamn fast so i'm stuck here where it's not much better got the tories in power and this dreadful weather i'm soaked to the bone i'm shivering like fuck i'm tired it's in my blood oh no we're falling down a hole oh no we're falling down a hole oh no we're falling down a hole oh no we're falling down a hole we're getting to the last of this teenage angst emo bullshit i hope this is the last of this emotionally jackin it have you learned anything? did you sing along? was it worth listening? is this noise better than nothing at all? all that you left, you left for someone all of this hurt that's wilted off all this relief it's the oddest thing oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god all that you left, you left for someone all of this hurt that's wilted off all this relief it's the oddest thing oh my god oh. my. god. we are 7 hour darkness invasion. yeah. oooo one more time for 7 hour darkness invasion bwehhhhh. alright, coming up next: the amazing pink candle. stick around for that one.