I Adapt, útgáfutónleikar í Vesturporti 9th Ágúst 2002
17/01/2003

After a whole week of wheat-postering, radio and newspaper interviews, intense rehearsals, stressing out on finishing the cd, making the t-shirts, renting the venue etc etc the day of our release party finally happened. Held at the independent theatre, Vesturport, a really cool but incredibly warm venue with really nice people who run it, we rolled in the PA system and gear, decorated the room with pro-gay flags and decorations as this gig was also a celebration of the Gay Pride festival even though this wasn’t an official part of it we wanted to do our bit for gay rights and tolerance towards homosexuals. Soundcheck, everything fine. Let the crowd in and give everyone a condom. The venue was immediately packed to our surprise and our merch table with the t-shirts and cds was crowded the entire show. Oh the show, well it started with the only rap group worth listening to in Iceland, Afkvæmi Guðanna gave a decent set with a guitar player and all. Up next, Snafu and things started to get really hot. Unfortunately I missed most of their set but I was told that this was their best show for a long long time or possibly ever. Too bad I was to stressed out to watch it (I being Villi). Apparently we were running things on a bit too high volume since the cops came but the really nice venue owner talked to them and bought us some time so I Adapt took the stage/floor. Right from the start it was obvious that the show was gonna be a legendary one. Birkir was in top form on the vocals and the rest of the band have rarely been as intense and passionate (in my humble opinion). We played most of the songs of the album as well as two covers (Strife and Shockwave). We even played a song of the album for the first time live, “where it all makes sense” is the name of the song and it is one of our most melodic songs ever but still fast and aggressive with really catchy melodies. I think it went down well even though it is so hard to play that we can’t fool around too much while playing it. All in all the show was perfect, the venue packed with people of all age groups from all different scenes, metal kids, hardcore kids, punks, indie kids and everyone left with a smile which is in the end the main purpose of our gigs, that people leave happy with a smile on their face. We sold all the cds we had to offer at the time and almost all of the t-shirts and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who bought our shit, showed up and had a good time. And also, this was the first gig for our new drummer Óli who has helped us out before but is probably gonna be a part of the band for a few months now. Welcome to the family.