Coverups at the Golden Bull

September 30, 2019May 10, 2020 Lindsay Marshall 0 Comment Coverups, Golden Bull, Living End, Oakland

I was actually coming back to Oakland to see The Living End for the first time EVER, but got a call from my old boss Michael from Oakland Coffee to come do some work for him in the days leading up to it. Of course, the Coverups also played a show at the Golden Bull while I was in town.

Michael decided against going to the show, but offered to pick me and Marnie up at the end of the night which was super sweet of him. So I ended up being the ONLY person on the Oakland Coffee guestlist. They didn’t even have my name on a physical list, the door guy (who I’m pretty sure works at Broken Guitars) had to go ask Bill Schneider if I was good and he said I was.

It was like an Oktoberfest thing, so there was beer and brats, so I got food before the show started and ate at the bar.

There were only like four or five people hanging out by the stage when I got there, but after I finished eating, it was starting to fill up. So I went and held down the fort with Ryan to wait for Marnie. She was flying in from Disney, literally that night, and coming straight to the Golden Bull after dropping her bags off at home. She landed at 7:30pm and made it just in time for the show.

Facebook reminded me it had been almost exactly a year since the last Coverups show aside from the one at the 40th Street Block Party over the summer.

Sarchasm opened the show, which was cool cuz I see them everywhere and I’m pretty proud of them as humans. They’re Matches fans, and obviously Green Day fans and do a lot with Lookout! and stuff. They were fun live. I didn’t record any of their songs, but they were fun.

Then the Coverups boys. I don’t know where Mike was. Honestly I was a little worried cuz Michael told me he was coming into town for the show, but then he wasn’t there. Shut Up Greg was filling in for him and honestly he was awesome. I was v impressed and proud of him.

I was VERY tired during the show for some reason and not totally enjoying/appreciating it as much as I should have been. I think Marnie felt the same way after flying back into town.

Billie was very openly drinking again at this show. It worried me at first, but by this show it was kinda whatever. He’s a grown man, if he wants to make bad decisions, that’s on him. He would pause a song and be like, “We need to take a sip of beer,” or “We need more beer,” but he wasn’t like DRUNK drunk or anything. Just drinking.

They had mugs of beer delivered to them onstage while they played.

After their original set that was on the setlist, they kept playing. They threw in quite a few Longshot songs, which was fun.

They ended up playing for 2 hours and 43 minutes. I thought they’d never stop playing. But they had to at midnight because of noise curfew. If not for that, they probably would’ve kept going honestly. What a night.