Sullivan Super Post

Soulside
18 Any Use of the Ropes
live double 7"









Kingface
Motherfucker, Read My Back
live double 7"









Sevens
777 7"


so enough chitchat, let's get down to some serious fucking shit for a second. the motherfuckin sullivan brothers. bobby and mark. as previously stated, soulside was/is my absolute all time favorite band. i can't really say how, but they have always fucking punched me in the nuts (but in a good way). maybe its becasue i came into punk/hardcore in the mid 80s through the whole new wave thing. you see i grew up on heavy doses of the cure, the smith, joy division, siouxsie, all that shit. somewhere in the late 80s a switch turned in my brain and i went "punk." maybe not a hard leap, i was a "full time skateboarder" and everyone else listened to punk. so therefore, when i was 14, i listened to punk. i would go to the record barn in the mall and buy any cassette with a dischord logo on it (yes, even fire party). but when i got to soulside, i was just blown away. this shit rocked, and it was dark. i just loved it to death and still do. while most people were into the kickass music i always loved the voice. i just though bobby sullivan kicked ass. you;d see pgotos of him in maximum rocknroll or banned in dc whipping those fucking dreads around. i ate it up. i loved soulside. my first official "record purchase" was ordering their LP trigger direct from dishord. but hot bodi gram was the best album ever. it rocked, it was depressing. it was just moody as fuck. i guess it appealled to my older "new wave" ways. so yeah, i can talk about how much i love soulside forever. but this love of soulside transformed into another love...kingface. somewhere i saw a photo of bobby's brother, mark, fronting this band (with equally impressive dreadlocks). obviously, i had to search out everythign by kingface. that effort proved very hard. kingface were waaaay lesser known and very hard to find records from. a random chance led me to their self title LP (with the little sticker on it). man that LP is rad! way less punky-core-ish and way more fucking rock and roll! but mark had equally impressive vocals as his brother. they were just awesome rock and roll vocals. loved it. therefore i loved kingface. easy enough. kingface went on to release anouther 12" on some german label. this live double 7" i am offering up. a "discography cd" which is still pretty hard to track down, and a recent 7" when they "got back together." but i'll tell more about that in a sec. for now, lets travel back to somewhere around 94 maybe? fugazi and shudder to think were on tour. we somehow managed to convince someone we were important and got to hang with all them for the week they were around. while watching one of the roadies load up i was thinking "that dude looks real familiar." i went up to him and was like "hey, wierd question, but were you in kingface?" his eyes just got huge. he must have thought i was crazy, all decked out in scummy fucking hardcore gear circa '94. but he got real excited. "you've heard of kingface?!" and i'm all "DOOOOOOD!! I FUCKING LOOOOOOVE KINGFACE!!!" and he was like "AWWWEEESOME! THANKS!" well, it was mark sullivan as fugazi's roadie if that didnt make sense. i was fucking stoked. it's like a pushed past all the ian's and guy's and whoever else was playing the real show and went straight for the lonely roadie and worshipped him like a god. we we chat kingface. i tell him my love of soulside and he says "well dude, check this out, if you love soulside and you love kingface, i'm in this new band with my brother." WHAT?!?!?! A BAND WITH BOTH SULLIVAN BROTHERS?!?! i thought i was going to faint. he said they were called sevens, and it was more of a raeggae rock kinda hybrid thing. i thought i was going to faint. it was some o the best news i had ever heard. from soulside, bobby joined rain like the sound of trains. they were an odd band. i cant really go into them right now, maybe another post, but from them, bobby and mark started sevens. the first 7" of theirs which i offer up is almost a super-group of dc standards. bobby sullivan, mark sullivan, josh larue, and joe lally. to me this was their best output. just a stripped won groovy rock record. after this they released another 7" and then an album. while the album was pretty decent, some of the lyrics were just a little too goofy for me. after sevens, bobby went on to sing for 7 league boots, who got alot more rock and alot more raggae. mark got kingface back together for a spell and then moved to nyc and i think does book publishing now or has a book store, or something. super sweet dude. a friend and i drove from atlanta to dc to see one of the kingface reunion shows some years ago. everyone in dc thought we were nuts. that same day we saw the sorts play in the middle of the cd bins at borders books. it was a crazy weekend. this post could go on and on, but i must stop and sleep. enjoy.

git em gat em - soulside

git em gat em - kingface

git em gat em - sevens