Alexisonfire closed out their hometown Born & Raised festival on Saturday, June 6, 2024 in Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.
Photographer Kevin Metcalfe was there to cover the set for SWOMP. Check out Kevin’s photos, below:
Last month, the band announced a new live album, LIVE Born & Raised 2022, St Catharines ON.
The LP is a compilation of 17 tracks spanning the band’s award-winning catalogue captured over two unforgettable nights in the summer of 2022 during the band’s hometown, inaugural Born & Raised Festival.
The first single from the new LP is a live rendition of “Little Girls Pointing and Laughing,” the very first song Alexisonfire wrote as a band over 22 years ago, notably just down the street from the festival grounds in Montebello Park.
The live album features the track, “Jubella,” from Alexisonfire’s debut self-titled album, released in late 2002. This marks the first time the band has ever performed the song live.
More details about the album can be found, here.
“St. Catharines was a perfect breeding ground for young independent bands,” said Alexisonfire’s George Pettit, in a media release.
“There was no shortage of venues where you could play or promote a show. So in the early 2000s, Alexisonfire learned a lot of what we needed to know coming up in St. Catharines. Coming back and playing a massive festival in Montebello Park was not only fun but served as an opportunity to give something back to the city that taught us how to be a band.”
Alexisonfire have sold over 1 million records and released five hugely successful studio albums, with four achieving Platinum-certification: Alexisonfire (2002), Watch Out (2004), Crisis (2006), and Old Crows / Young Cardinals (2009).
Crisis debuted at #1 on the Top 200 Soundscan (Canada), and Old Crows / Young Cardinals debuted at #2, and charted at #9 on the US Billboard Independent Album chart.
Watch Out helped garner a New Group of the Year JUNO (2004).
The band has performed to hundreds of thousands of fans on iconic stages worldwide, and graced notable music magazine covers internationally.
Their long-anticipated 5th studio album, and first full-length album in over 13 years, Otherness, was released in 2022 to international acclaim, garnering a 2023 JUNO award for “Rock Album of the Year.”
SWOMP had the opportunity to cover Alexonfire’s set last summer at Rock The Park in London, Ontario.
Check out our coverage, here: Alexisonfire cranks the volume at Rock The Park in London
Follow the band on their official website, here: https://theonlybandever.com/.