Tired, excited, and a little hungry, the band arrives at the venue just after 3:15pm.  They park the car and lift the most important instruments to the back of the venue.  The sounds of WANIMA, Panic! At the Disco, Twenty One Pilots, or Enter Shikari emanate from the open doors in the brief seconds before the car engine is turned off.

Already Late takes the stage towards the end of the night.  B-Stixx counts them in, and they explode into the first track on the setlist.  Jest A King flows from singing to rapping, from guitar to ukulele all while exuding and on stage persona that screams “rock-star”.  B-Stixx’s drums swell and burst, making time itself a slave to the band’s whims.  Gluing it all together are Hakase’s bass lines, making sure the songs are groovy and solid.  

Every song in their set is different.  They blend and cross genres as if they were trying on clothes at a thrift store.  Hip-Hop fuses with pop-punk.  English lyrics are intermixed with Japanese.  Indie, funk, and hardcore all find their place. But beneath this eccentricity and eclecticism, is a subtle cohesion that says, “That is definitely an Already Late song”.  As wild and diverse the show seems, it can be expressed easily by a single word: fun.  By the end of the night, not a single person is left uninterested.  

“They sound like Green Day and Drake has a baby while being raised by ONE OK ROCK” one newly converted fan states.  

Learn more about Already Late here!