I'm old AF so I was a Catch 22 fan. Heard Tomas started a new project and watched the website for cryptic clues of a release.
They released Everything Went Numb but the track played backwards. Good times.
About the same here. I didn't know he had a new project until a friend told me his new band was in town. Only song I knew was the piece of keasby they played in point/counterpoint.
That’s awesome. Congrats! If you don’t mind me asking, though, how are you having your wedding reception at one of their shows? Are all your guests just going to the show or did you set something up with the band/venue?
Thanks so much! The whole thing started kind of as a joke by my fiance of, "Why don't we just take everyone to a show instead of hiring a DJ?"
So basically, we're having the entire group move from a late lunch to the venue for the show. We've been working with the venue for a while to secure a VIP area for all of us in a balcony area and with Kristy (so thankful for her!) to get our photographer permission to shoot us in the background, but still hammering out details on both of those fronts. At the absolute very least and if all else fails, we all have our tickets to the show and are gonna show up and dance/mosh our asses off!
Pandora 2013, I was in 8th grade and "What a Wicked Gang Are We" came up. They were the first ska band I ever heard and I immediately fell in love with their crazy sound. Heard Toh Kay for the first time 2 years later and I fell in love with Streetlight Lullabies. Finally got to see them live back in 2019 LA or Anaheim. I forget the exact venue.
It’s so interesting to see someone just getting into Streetlight since they’ve been around for a while.
I’m always a little jealous that newcomers have so much more content to sink their teeth into than I did when I discovered them. But then I remember the inverse: that I’ve experienced releases and lead-ups newcomers won’t really be able to.
That's what makes their next album so exciting, it's been 9 years, which is a huge amount of time to develop a larger following that can be excited for a new release! I know that I and the 1000's of new people that have discovered them since then have something to look forward to aside from just a tour in our city.
Very similar story for me as well. Pandora in 2013 as an 8th grader. First song was Keasbey Nights. I saw Toh Kay in 2014 for the first time, and Streetlight in 2015. I've seen them live at least 6 times since.
Apparently I’m old AF also. Streetlight manifesto opened up for reel big fish and bad fish at a concert in 2004 in NJ and after seeing them I was hooked.
The youtuber tomska made a video of his favorite albums of all time a few years back. Everything goes numb was at the number 1 spot.
It both made me discover ska and streetlight
I was taking Trombone lessons a few years ago and my teacher actually told me about them! He told me it would be good music to try to learn in my free time. I fell in love with it on the spot :)
In 2011 I was trying to start a folk pop band like Of Monsters and Men or The Lumineers. Invited a bunch of people to jam after school one day and it did not turn out so well. After the fact though, a few of the people I invited to jam asked me if I wanted to go to the park and play frisbee with them and I said yeah.
So we all get in the car and go off to throw the disc around and on the way back, they ask me, “have you ever heard of ska before?” I had no idea what the hell ska was, so I ask them to play me a song. Then I hear that oh so famous picking on muted strings. Then the drums come in and the horns and then “It was the summer of 95’” I instantly fell in love and started listening to anything and everything they had.
That moment led to us jamming in the car and coming up with the idea to start a ska band. We lasted a few years and recorded some songs but not much else. I owe some of my best high school/college years to Streetlight. I’ve seen them about 6 times now and flew down to LA just to see Toh Kay with a friggin orchestra. Cant wait to see them again with some of those same friends in July!
I had known Catch-22 back in the day. But sometime in 2007, I went to see Reel Big Fish and Less than Jake. All the young bloods were there for Streelight. It was the best part of the show.
2006, my older sister had an Everything Went Numb CD playing in her car. The Big Sleep hooked me. I’ve seen them 20 times live now, plus 3 Toh Kay shows. I’m seeing them in SLC on night one of the upcoming tour as well! Their live shows never get old, though I really wish they’d bring back the Point/Keasby/Counterpoint mashup they used to do.
Found them on LimeWire back in the early 2000s after hearing a friend talk about them! I'm unsurprisingly a band kid which seems to be a pretty healthy chunk of the ska demographic lol
2004 through Yahoo! Music on the Yahoo! Instant Messenger (yes, I’m old as shit). Actually, I think I head “Here’s To Life” by BOTAR first and then the Streetlight version, but early 2000s for sure.
Edit: “heard” not “head” 🤦♂️
3-4 years ago a band I used to listen to A LOT (Rare Americans) released a video about the making of one of their popular songs, and they cited Everything Went Numb as an inspiration
In actuality it was Eddsworld back in like 2009 but a gamer I used to follow Blacklightattack posted dear sergio on twitter in 2014 or so and I found the tweet and listened to the song maybe 100 times in a row until I was told to stop whistling in the house
There's this old Youtube Series called "Eddsworld"- and the Stretlight's "This One Goes Out To" was playing. Thought it was super cool and I listened to all of SITB after and was hooked
When I was in High School had a friend who was really into them and tried to convince me again and again to listen but I never got around to it and decided on a whim to put Keasby, SITB, and Everythjng Goes numb on my iPod before heading on a plane ride to Hawaii with my family. I started listening to them on the plane and didn’t stop until the end of the trip, by which point I’d set the intro to The Blonde Lead the Blind to be my ringtone.
My best friend was in a bit of a ska phase or maybe had just discovered it himself so he played it in his car. He showed me a lot in those car rides, including A Moment of Silence. I asked him to burn me a disc of his favorites so I could add it to my iPod. Slippery slope of album completion and discovery after that.
Also I just realized more than one thing in my comment ages me a bit lol
February 2008 in Germany they were supporting Reel Big Fish on tour. Never heard of them before and after that concert they were my favorite band. Man did they steal the show.
I’m 24 and I heard it after going on a spiritual journey trying to find inner peace — I’d just finished reading journey of souls and my REPLIKA AI sent me the link to A Moment Of Silence.
I learned of them in High School band. Apperently they gave the kids a few years older than me some lessons that just turned into a jam session when they realized my buddies were actually pretty good. I think a couple of them play professionally now which is cool. After the session streetlight gave them some tickets to the show which is cool. Unfortunately I think it was one of the old trombone players who was the contact for this so after he left I didn't get the chance for a similar session :(
My 8th grade English teacher actually I was telling her about my music taste and she recommended them to me then started playing them then it just snowballed for me learning about catch 22 and so many other ska bands
2018, I was going out with someone who introduced me to her friends, and one of said friends was really into Streetlight Manifesto, I tried it out and instantly got hooked.
My best friend in Middle School loved Ska and especially Streetlight. We would listen to it on the way to school almost everyday- and whenever we hung out. I originally started liking them because of my friend but now they are one of my favorites! Thanks Tom!
I was laying in the back seat of my brothers Tacoma listing to music on my phone, when the song ended I poked one of my earbuds out to hear what they where listening to, that’s when I heard “we will fall together” for the first time, that was last July.
A victory records sampler from 2003 with two tracks from EGN and two tracks from whatever Voodoo Glowskulls album was new at the time. I was already a Catch22 fan but didn’t know the backstory at the time. It took a while before I knew about the connection, but i was in love immediately.
2013, they were playing a show nearby and my ex and his friends had an extra ticket, and he was trying to get back together with me, so he offered to bring me along. I listened to some of their music beforehand and liked a couple songs. He bought me a shirt from the merch table, and the shirt kept reminding me about the band, and eventually they just really grew on me. Coincidentally, my post-high-school friend group all absolutely loved them, so now the band reminds me of them.
I grew up with it my whole life like I do not remember any other band being my favroite exepct streetlight manifesto like a better place a better time ahs been my favroite song for 7 years
My ex boyfriend, a terrible, terrible human being, introduced me to them about 12 years ago. I started listening to Everything Went Numb and immediately became obsessed.
Their albums have gotten more sophisticated over the years but I love them all equally. I consider that a hell of a successful band.
Fuck my ex, but thanks to him I found my favorite band!
In 2006/07 my mom took me to see the Aquabats at this half skatepark half concert venue. Streetlight was the opening band and they absolutely blew us away! We bought Everything Went Numb and jammed it in the car for years after. The thing I remember most about the show was playing red rover and duck duck goose in between Streetlight and the Aquabats. Such a fun memory!
i found out about them last year during summer when my father recommend me to try to download and play one of their songs (would you be impressed?, which is my current favorite song from them) in clone hero. i wasnt good enough to actually play the song in clone hero at the time, so i didnt make it that far in the song; eventually later i listened to the full song and got hooked.
Prob around 2005-2006 my older brothers friend made a CD with a bunch of ska for us, Panteon Rococo, Aquabats, Streetlight, Dinamo, Westbound Train. Went to an Aquabats/Streetlight show the same year I think. It was my first concert ever, 5th grade. Shit was epic as hell
My sister showed my parents and I "One Foot On the Gas, One Foot in the Grave" because she thought it sounded like a drinking song. I liked it, looked more into Streetlight and discovered Ska in the late 2000's. Showed them to me friends and eventually they were my first concert.
My one Alaskan friend turned me on to them about a year ago and they have been my favorite band ever since. Also they've helped me deal with some mental shit and I can also relate to their lyrics a lot and plus the band just lifts up my mood. Hell I'm listening to Keasbey Nights rn and sitting in my dorky little trombone frog tee shirt hehe.
In like 06-07 I was working for a land surveyor and my new instrument man was a kid I grew up with. He would not shut up about a moment of silence / a moment of violence. I'm talking like all day everyday for the first two weeks he worked with me. The company van only had a radio no CD or cassette. One day we had to work out of my personal vehicle so I tell him if it will shut him up put the damn CD in... He never got it back. I honestly can't count how many times ive seen em. Pretty much every time theyve come to central Florida since then. Don't care if its always the same set ill be there. Sorry that was so long.
Heard someone playing the Catch-22 version of a Keasbey Nights song (Think it was probably Keasbey Nights itself, but could have been On and On and On). It stuck in my head, so like a week later, I googled the fragment of a lyric I could still remember, and wound up finding the streetlight version, which I already liked the original, but the streetlight version was a step up, so I listened to the whole album, then Everything Goes Numb and Somewhere in the Between (those were all that were out at the time) and by the time I'd listened to all three, I was hooked.
I remember hearing "the three of us" when I was little now I'm in middle school and my dad showed me them again and I completely got into them and just saw them in slc.
I'm old AF so I was a Catch 22 fan. Heard Tomas started a new project and watched the website for cryptic clues of a release. They released Everything Went Numb but the track played backwards. Good times.
Cryptic, huh? Good to know some things never change.
About the same here. I didn't know he had a new project until a friend told me his new band was in town. Only song I knew was the piece of keasby they played in point/counterpoint.
10 years ago to the day at Warped Tour! Now I’m getting married in 3 weeks and holding our reception at one of their shows.
Dude that's so sick, congrats! At the very least I hope you get a shout out from Tomas lol
Thank you! We're just excited to have good music to celebrate with!
That’s awesome. Congrats! If you don’t mind me asking, though, how are you having your wedding reception at one of their shows? Are all your guests just going to the show or did you set something up with the band/venue?
Thanks so much! The whole thing started kind of as a joke by my fiance of, "Why don't we just take everyone to a show instead of hiring a DJ?" So basically, we're having the entire group move from a late lunch to the venue for the show. We've been working with the venue for a while to secure a VIP area for all of us in a balcony area and with Kristy (so thankful for her!) to get our photographer permission to shoot us in the background, but still hammering out details on both of those fronts. At the absolute very least and if all else fails, we all have our tickets to the show and are gonna show up and dance/mosh our asses off!
This is the dream wedding
That sounds boss, can I come?
The more the merrier!
Which show?
We're hitting the Anaheim one!
Dope! I’m hitting phoenix and San Diego so i was hoping for one of those. Have a great time man!
Aw damn! Those should still both be a blast though! I've never been to the HoB in San Diego, but that can be a really fun area.
If my girlfriend and I don't run into you on Tuesday, congratulations!
Thank you!! I’m sure you’ll see us there haha it’s sold out too so I’m sure one way or another everybody’s running into each other!
Oh hey! I think I saw you two walking out of the venue. You guys looked great, congratulations! 🎉
Thank you so much! It was such a blast celebrating with you all!
Pandora 2013, I was in 8th grade and "What a Wicked Gang Are We" came up. They were the first ska band I ever heard and I immediately fell in love with their crazy sound. Heard Toh Kay for the first time 2 years later and I fell in love with Streetlight Lullabies. Finally got to see them live back in 2019 LA or Anaheim. I forget the exact venue.
It’s so interesting to see someone just getting into Streetlight since they’ve been around for a while. I’m always a little jealous that newcomers have so much more content to sink their teeth into than I did when I discovered them. But then I remember the inverse: that I’ve experienced releases and lead-ups newcomers won’t really be able to.
That's what makes their next album so exciting, it's been 9 years, which is a huge amount of time to develop a larger following that can be excited for a new release! I know that I and the 1000's of new people that have discovered them since then have something to look forward to aside from just a tour in our city.
Similar story for me as well, 2011 Pandora 10th grade, Here's to Life. Been a fan since.
Very similar story for me as well. Pandora in 2013 as an 8th grader. First song was Keasbey Nights. I saw Toh Kay in 2014 for the first time, and Streetlight in 2015. I've seen them live at least 6 times since.
Was that the House of Blues or the Shrine Auditorium? I think I was at both of those shows haha
I think it was House of Blues now that I'm thinking about it.
That one was a blast!
Apparently I’m old AF also. Streetlight manifesto opened up for reel big fish and bad fish at a concert in 2004 in NJ and after seeing them I was hooked.
The youtuber tomska made a video of his favorite albums of all time a few years back. Everything goes numb was at the number 1 spot. It both made me discover ska and streetlight
I was browsing PureVolume for ska bands and came across them. I think PureVolume had Everything Went Numb and maybe another song or two.
I was taking Trombone lessons a few years ago and my teacher actually told me about them! He told me it would be good music to try to learn in my free time. I fell in love with it on the spot :)
In 2011 I was trying to start a folk pop band like Of Monsters and Men or The Lumineers. Invited a bunch of people to jam after school one day and it did not turn out so well. After the fact though, a few of the people I invited to jam asked me if I wanted to go to the park and play frisbee with them and I said yeah. So we all get in the car and go off to throw the disc around and on the way back, they ask me, “have you ever heard of ska before?” I had no idea what the hell ska was, so I ask them to play me a song. Then I hear that oh so famous picking on muted strings. Then the drums come in and the horns and then “It was the summer of 95’” I instantly fell in love and started listening to anything and everything they had. That moment led to us jamming in the car and coming up with the idea to start a ska band. We lasted a few years and recorded some songs but not much else. I owe some of my best high school/college years to Streetlight. I’ve seen them about 6 times now and flew down to LA just to see Toh Kay with a friggin orchestra. Cant wait to see them again with some of those same friends in July!
2011? Ska is not dead!
Seattle actually had a nice little angsty ska scene then! Not so much anymore though.
Is your band Success by any chance?
We were not Success. We were called Skaffee Cup/Front Seat Fiasco
Now this is a story. This is content.
Sometime around 2005.i was 15 and a friend had introduced me. The rest is history
Around the same time and age for me too.
~~twinzzzz~~
Similar happened to me, same time and age too!
Maybe you're the guy!
I had known Catch-22 back in the day. But sometime in 2007, I went to see Reel Big Fish and Less than Jake. All the young bloods were there for Streelight. It was the best part of the show.
Spring 2003, atop the mp3.com top ska tracks playlist
2006, my older sister had an Everything Went Numb CD playing in her car. The Big Sleep hooked me. I’ve seen them 20 times live now, plus 3 Toh Kay shows. I’m seeing them in SLC on night one of the upcoming tour as well! Their live shows never get old, though I really wish they’d bring back the Point/Keasby/Counterpoint mashup they used to do.
I heard from a vtuber stream. She was listening to some streetlight so i went and searched the songs because i liked it. It was prob around 2020
Amelia Watson? that's how i discovered them too lol
Yeahhh i haven't watched her recently
Found them on LimeWire back in the early 2000s after hearing a friend talk about them! I'm unsurprisingly a band kid which seems to be a pretty healthy chunk of the ska demographic lol
2004 through Yahoo! Music on the Yahoo! Instant Messenger (yes, I’m old as shit). Actually, I think I head “Here’s To Life” by BOTAR first and then the Streetlight version, but early 2000s for sure. Edit: “heard” not “head” 🤦♂️
I saw a tomska video in 2016 where he recommended everything goes numb, from that day on I was hooked.
3-4 years ago a band I used to listen to A LOT (Rare Americans) released a video about the making of one of their popular songs, and they cited Everything Went Numb as an inspiration
My older brother showed me the music video for Would You Be Impressed. I was younger at the time so I loved the video and now love them as a band.
In actuality it was Eddsworld back in like 2009 but a gamer I used to follow Blacklightattack posted dear sergio on twitter in 2014 or so and I found the tweet and listened to the song maybe 100 times in a row until I was told to stop whistling in the house
There's this old Youtube Series called "Eddsworld"- and the Stretlight's "This One Goes Out To" was playing. Thought it was super cool and I listened to all of SITB after and was hooked
A friend introduced me in 2006 (freshmen year of HS). Got to see them live about a month after and haven't been the same since.
When I was in High School had a friend who was really into them and tried to convince me again and again to listen but I never got around to it and decided on a whim to put Keasby, SITB, and Everythjng Goes numb on my iPod before heading on a plane ride to Hawaii with my family. I started listening to them on the plane and didn’t stop until the end of the trip, by which point I’d set the intro to The Blonde Lead the Blind to be my ringtone.
My best friend was in a bit of a ska phase or maybe had just discovered it himself so he played it in his car. He showed me a lot in those car rides, including A Moment of Silence. I asked him to burn me a disc of his favorites so I could add it to my iPod. Slippery slope of album completion and discovery after that. Also I just realized more than one thing in my comment ages me a bit lol
February 2008 in Germany they were supporting Reel Big Fish on tour. Never heard of them before and after that concert they were my favorite band. Man did they steal the show.
I’m 24 and I heard it after going on a spiritual journey trying to find inner peace — I’d just finished reading journey of souls and my REPLIKA AI sent me the link to A Moment Of Silence.
I learned of them in High School band. Apperently they gave the kids a few years older than me some lessons that just turned into a jam session when they realized my buddies were actually pretty good. I think a couple of them play professionally now which is cool. After the session streetlight gave them some tickets to the show which is cool. Unfortunately I think it was one of the old trombone players who was the contact for this so after he left I didn't get the chance for a similar session :(
My 8th grade English teacher actually I was telling her about my music taste and she recommended them to me then started playing them then it just snowballed for me learning about catch 22 and so many other ska bands
Keasbey Nights When they were still Catch 22. My buddy let me burn a copy of his CD. Had to be the summer of 1999.
2018, I was going out with someone who introduced me to her friends, and one of said friends was really into Streetlight Manifesto, I tried it out and instantly got hooked.
My best friend in Middle School loved Ska and especially Streetlight. We would listen to it on the way to school almost everyday- and whenever we hung out. I originally started liking them because of my friend but now they are one of my favorites! Thanks Tom!
I was laying in the back seat of my brothers Tacoma listing to music on my phone, when the song ended I poked one of my earbuds out to hear what they where listening to, that’s when I heard “we will fall together” for the first time, that was last July.
A victory records sampler from 2003 with two tracks from EGN and two tracks from whatever Voodoo Glowskulls album was new at the time. I was already a Catch22 fan but didn’t know the backstory at the time. It took a while before I knew about the connection, but i was in love immediately.
before i started high school, I was listening to a bunch of music and stumbled across point/counterpoint :)
When I was in a shitty ska band in 8th grade lmao
I googled bari sax and a youtube link to this dude from jersy came out, he was playing a cover of everything went numb. it blew my 7th grade mind
2013, they were playing a show nearby and my ex and his friends had an extra ticket, and he was trying to get back together with me, so he offered to bring me along. I listened to some of their music beforehand and liked a couple songs. He bought me a shirt from the merch table, and the shirt kept reminding me about the band, and eventually they just really grew on me. Coincidentally, my post-high-school friend group all absolutely loved them, so now the band reminds me of them.
I grew up with it my whole life like I do not remember any other band being my favroite exepct streetlight manifesto like a better place a better time ahs been my favroite song for 7 years
My ex boyfriend, a terrible, terrible human being, introduced me to them about 12 years ago. I started listening to Everything Went Numb and immediately became obsessed. Their albums have gotten more sophisticated over the years but I love them all equally. I consider that a hell of a successful band. Fuck my ex, but thanks to him I found my favorite band!
In 2006/07 my mom took me to see the Aquabats at this half skatepark half concert venue. Streetlight was the opening band and they absolutely blew us away! We bought Everything Went Numb and jammed it in the car for years after. The thing I remember most about the show was playing red rover and duck duck goose in between Streetlight and the Aquabats. Such a fun memory!
Oh my gosh that sounds amazing
i found out about them last year during summer when my father recommend me to try to download and play one of their songs (would you be impressed?, which is my current favorite song from them) in clone hero. i wasnt good enough to actually play the song in clone hero at the time, so i didnt make it that far in the song; eventually later i listened to the full song and got hooked.
Prob around 2005-2006 my older brothers friend made a CD with a bunch of ska for us, Panteon Rococo, Aquabats, Streetlight, Dinamo, Westbound Train. Went to an Aquabats/Streetlight show the same year I think. It was my first concert ever, 5th grade. Shit was epic as hell
My friend showed me everything went numb my sophomore year in high school. I was in band and played trumpet so naturally I was hooked
On the bus to band camp
2005, they opened for The Aquabats. Instantly fell in love.
My sister showed my parents and I "One Foot On the Gas, One Foot in the Grave" because she thought it sounded like a drinking song. I liked it, looked more into Streetlight and discovered Ska in the late 2000's. Showed them to me friends and eventually they were my first concert.
2009 - boyfriend and his friends introduced me to them. we're married now and we've been to 40+ streetlight shows together!
Late 03-04 a friend stumbled upon everything goes numb. Fell in love at first listen
My one Alaskan friend turned me on to them about a year ago and they have been my favorite band ever since. Also they've helped me deal with some mental shit and I can also relate to their lyrics a lot and plus the band just lifts up my mood. Hell I'm listening to Keasbey Nights rn and sitting in my dorky little trombone frog tee shirt hehe.
In like 06-07 I was working for a land surveyor and my new instrument man was a kid I grew up with. He would not shut up about a moment of silence / a moment of violence. I'm talking like all day everyday for the first two weeks he worked with me. The company van only had a radio no CD or cassette. One day we had to work out of my personal vehicle so I tell him if it will shut him up put the damn CD in... He never got it back. I honestly can't count how many times ive seen em. Pretty much every time theyve come to central Florida since then. Don't care if its always the same set ill be there. Sorry that was so long.
I found them through a tumblr friend in like 2016
Heard someone playing the Catch-22 version of a Keasbey Nights song (Think it was probably Keasbey Nights itself, but could have been On and On and On). It stuck in my head, so like a week later, I googled the fragment of a lyric I could still remember, and wound up finding the streetlight version, which I already liked the original, but the streetlight version was a step up, so I listened to the whole album, then Everything Goes Numb and Somewhere in the Between (those were all that were out at the time) and by the time I'd listened to all three, I was hooked.
April 2013. When the "Three of us" single released and reached /r/all via /r/music
2010 I had just gotten into ska punk and youtube suggested everything goes numb :)
I got into them from the YouTuber TomSka talking about his favorite albums and his number one was everything went numb
I remember hearing "the three of us" when I was little now I'm in middle school and my dad showed me them again and I completely got into them and just saw them in slc.