Warped Tour Feature:

Letter Kills Live Up To The Hype

Letter Kills:8/7/04
@ Randall's Island

by Shawna Adams

Amongst running around trying to get all my interviews done and photograph sets, I was lucky enough to catch Letter Kills’ set at the Randall’s Island Warped on August 7th. I say I’m lucky that I caught the band’s set because I wasn’t sure what to expect from them, having never seen their show before, but they blew me away. I found myself completely mesmerized by their intense and flawless performance. Front man Matt Shelton charmed the audience with all his hip shaking and gracious smiles between verses while guitarists Timothy Cordova and Dustin Lovelis head banged to the music, Kyle Duckworth looked exuberant playing the bass, and Paul Remund kept the beat going on drums. My only complaint is that their set flew by; Warped’s 30-minute set constraints left me itching for more.

Letter Kills’ July 27, 2004, debut release The Bridge has been highly anticipated since the band first started making noise on Warped Tour last year. Although Warped head honcho Kevin Lyman swore the band wouldn’t make it onto another Warped Tour after a fight with security the band had at the Asbury Park date last year, he should have known that the band was just too good not to be included on the lineup for Warped again this year. That and Mr. Lyman owes his life to the band’s manager. Says drummer Paul Remund of the incident, “(At last year’s Warped) there was a guy taking Kevin Lyman by the neck and our manager actually rescued him, so here we are on Warped again.” And they would certainly be missed if they weren’t.

Check out the band’s website at www.letterkills.com.