#kyle fasel

[tomsmusictaste]

Real Friends // Waiting Room

[binders-and-beanies]

Real Friends // Get By

[always-an-evergreen]

Highly debating making another tumblr that consists of my writing / music. I think I reached a point where I'm mostly ok with my poems and lyrics that I'm down to share some. There's just so much to sift through and I'm only comfortable with the things I've written this year 😩

[s-o-n-de-r]

Taylor Acorn

10.20.22 | Rebel Lounge | Phoenix, AZ Written and photographed by Brian Andersen

Have you ever really honestly tried something out and it wasn’t for you so you adjust until it does? Taylor Acorn can relate. While supporting Real Friends and With Confidence on their Fall Tour, Acorn confessed to a sold out show at the Rebel Lounge in Phoenix, AZ that she had been covering Jaime All Over by Mayday Parade for a long time but it wasn’t until recently that she started playing to crowds that appreciate the cover. You may recognize her from her feature with Arrows in Action on Uncomfortably Numb. Recently Acorn made an artistic shift from country to the pop punk scene. Her more recent tracks will fit right into any playlist featuring the late 00’s and early 10’s classics like Paramore and We the Kings and of course she felt right at home alongside the rest of the fantastic touring artists. Add her to your playlists, you can’t go wrong.

Acorn was first to perform. Accompanied by only a guitarist and a drummer, the stage felt anything but empty. There was so much energy radiating from the stage, it was hard not to bop along. As previously mentioned, they played an acoustic cover of Jaime All Over. She requested crowd participation and boy howdy, the crowd participated, belting every word back at her. She says it’s things like that that make her feel the genre switch was a good move. (It was.) The crowd reacted equally electrically for her originals like Psycho and Shapeshifting. She did a proper job of warming up the crowd for Seattle 5-piece, The Home Team. Who subsequently did a fire job of adding to the heat. Sporting certified bops like She’s Quiet, Slow Bloom, and Watching All Your Friends Get Rich, it’s impossible to sit still with these guys on stage. They bring such a fun, infectious energy, and with the intimate spacing of the Rebel Lounge, everyone there caught it. Unlike Covid, though, the only symptoms include having a really great time, increased chance of post-concert bangovers and thrown out necks. See, these headlining acts get all the glory for being the main attraction of the tour and all that, but their job is made significantly easier with killer openers like these.

By the time With Confidence hit the stage, the crowd was ready for it. Making the trip all the way from Australia, Phoenix gave them a huge, warm welcome. Some fans literally brought them roses. They brought the fan favorites like What you Make It, and Moving Boxes and the crowd went nuts for it. Finally Real Friends closed out the show. They did their typical Dog Meet and Greet at Los Olivos Park in Phoenix before the show. Unfortunately Kyle Fasel was not feeling well and so the band performed without him. We definitely missed him, but by no means did the show feel lacking. They gave everything they had and the crowd gave everything back. They definitely demonstrated why this was a sold out show. Cody Muraro of Real Friends promised to be back in Phoenix, but next time they’re booking a bigger venue.

Unfortunately as of this writing, the tour has concluded. But if you get a chance to catch Taylor Acorn or any of these other incredible artists, I highly recommend you jump at the chance.

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[sexualassbutts]

~ Kyle Fasel

[blackcoffeegerard]

vital signs are weakening

[cameronhvrley]

Real Friends | Nervous Wreck

send me your favourite song and i’ll make a gif/edit of my favourite line and add it to my spotify playlist!

spotify playlist

[punkperidot]

Smiling On The Surface — Real Friends

[punkbouquet]

Just when I think I need someone They wrap their arms around my old bones And I start breaking apart I walk away from anyone that cares about me But I swear my skin's not as rough as I make it out to be The saddest part is I've been distant since I was sixteen It keeps me up in bed I'm stuck here with all the choices I've made And the chances I was too afraid to change

[rotten-day-dreams]

//// Nothing memorable stays the same a book of poems by Kyle Fasel.

[basic-cunt]

The third of my three Real Friends tattoos in Kyle Fasels handwriting

[takeasmiletoday]

-Kyle Fasel (x)

[binders-and-beanies]

This is the drawing I was talking abt last night btw that I got to show him. I realized lately tumblr has deleted A LOT of my art, like not just community labels or “no post found” or anything just straight up gone. So here’s a somewhat older one I’ve shared before but have a new positive memory abt :)

[barrykeohgan]

summer // real friends

[the-perks-of-bandmembers]

Summer//Real Friends Have a crappy attempt at making a cool edit

[sexualassbutts]

~ Kyle Fasel