The Yabba - Battles

Battles
The Yabba
Live @ Wills Pub
Orlando FL
05-02-2022

[@FabianWynkoop]

Last time I saw them was 2004. There were twice as many people on stage. The drummer looked younger. The guitarist looked older.

[@aaronburgess5340]

Pretty sure Ian Williams has a picture of Dorian Gray in his attic

[@sunseedboy]

i love them so much they have amazing harmony and energy

[@conemedemelee20]

Beautiful!

[@g43s]

I avoided listening to this song when youtube recomend it to me back in 2015 (i think) only because i didnt liked the cover of the video and thought the name was making allusion to the beatles which i found annoying. couple of years laters (2020 if im not mistaken) i finally gave it a go and found myself into Battles for like an entire year and a half.

[@mtrps_]

so fucking solid

[@deadbeatdynamo]

Glad to see them still playing, but John looks like he's there against his will.

[@kailiw.8462]

I think they're on their last leg definitely, I might be wrong but they do seem kind of out of it.

[@stuFF625]

Saw them play in Chattanooga a few days before this and it was about the same. The show still kicked ass, but them boys looked *dead* inside. That’s what traveling/touring nonstop for a year will do to you unfortunately.

[@igorszamaszow171]

These two looked like they were going to leave during the next song back when Ty was in the band, yet they still are there

[@g43s]

i mean, he always looks like that imo haha, just came from watching to this same track live on NYC.

[@mochitsuki420]

That’s what passion looks like

[@AlanGonzalez-vq7bj]

I miss Dave

[@thezogs95]

So weird to see Stainer wailing on the drums to synth pop music. So used to seeing him with Helmet

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

He left Helmet in 1997. 27 years ago. He's been in Battles for much longer than he's been in Helmet. And this is in no goddamn way "synth pop".

[@81wildbore]

I just wish it was John and Dave, not John and Ian. Oh well, I found this looking for new Dave Konopka stuff. Still haven't found any...

[@ondro123]

Dave’s old band Lynx just reissued their album from 1999 on Computer Students records! Has a few new tracks which they recorded last year

[@81wildbore]

@@ondro123 wow thank you so much!