GWAR @ Showbox SoDo

📆 Tuesday, October 22nd
🎟 $35
📍 Showbox SoDo: 1700 1st Ave S, Seattle

I don’t cover music on here as much as I want to. It’s not because I have pretty basic ’90s kid taste (though that is true), or that there’s a paucity of options around here (this is Seattle), but I’m first and foremost a drama kid and I easily get bored at concerts if there isn’t something theatrical to really pull me in. 

Lo, the gods have heard my prayers, and now it’s motherhumpin’ time to embrace your inner Ethan Embry and get down with GWAR. Get blasted with a variety of bodily fluids, dodge pieces of oversized plastic anatomy we definitely can’t feature on this site, and come close to dying in the pit as the shock metal lords conquer your face. They’ll be blowing the speakers out at the Showbox SoDo, the #1 place in the city for live acts to make a mess. (Not two seconds into the Eric André show last year, we were already covered in milk; he then later ran around the venue knocking over recycling cans while screaming over deafening free jazz.) 

I can’t think of a better thing to do with my October than witness this grotesque band of intergalactic warriors pull miles of guts out of plastic dummies while wailing on guitars. If that’s not your thing, that’s totally cool. But you know what the concert won’t be? Boring. 

If I still haven’t sold you on them, consider a primer from GWAR’s biggest fans, Beavis and Butt-Head. “There’s too much cool stuff to keep track of!” 

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