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Ryan Joseph Kirby
6 years
When I was 17 years old, I walked into my band at the times practice space, and they were trying out a new vocalist behind my back. Their reason was because he looked cooler (had plugs, tattoos, etc). 11 years later, I have AirPods, and they're all no longer playing music.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
8 years
Vocalist: When this hits, I want to see every single person in this room destroy everything. Venue Owner:
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
6 years
I’m proud of this.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
6 years
My grandma said to be careful in the ocean, because of the undertows. Trust me, Grandma, I’ve listened to metalcore long enough to know the dangers of the undertow.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
8 years
Band: "How we doing tonight?!" *3 people cheer* "You can do better than that!" *Same 3 people cheer* "That's what I'm talking about!"
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
Metalcore, when done right, conveys emotion better than any other genre of music.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
While @BryanGarris_ does guest vocals with 30 Seconds to Mars, I’ll hold down his spot in Slaughterhouse.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
Wall. Of. Death.
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6 years
These three little words are a big turn-on
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
We played a 1500 cap live nation venue tonight. They took no merch rate and did in fact give us $1,500 for fuel. 🫡
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
Idk who needs to hear this, but breakdowns are still cool.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
6 years
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
6 years
What metal sounds like to non-metal listeners.
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3 years
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
6 years
If anyone gives you a hard time about listening to “screamo” during Thanksgiving, look them in the eye and give the nastiest “blegh” you can. Then proceed to smash your face into the mashed potatoes. You’re welcome.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
8 months
I hate how a lot of non-heavy music listeners talk about it in such a derogatory way. “Oh wow, you must be angry listening to this all the time.” *does awful attempt at screaming and says it sounds just like the band you’re listening too*
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
Good thing this can happen, but I can’t tour until maybe 2022. ☺️
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4 years
Our GREAT RALLY tonight in Pennsylvania. Tremendous energy! #MAGA
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
Our adopted son and daughter officially want their last names changed to Kirby ❤️
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
Not coming to a show because of a vaccine or testing rule is not “sticking it to the man” its hurting the bands that are finally playing shows again after 2 years.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
If you’ve done Warped Tour in a van you’re immune to Coronavirus
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
I want to tour with Bad Omens
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
Metalcore fans when a band says they wrote their heaviest album to date.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
Tours with motionless once
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 month
Between this and Emptiness Machine, Linkin Park might become my favorite band all over again.
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1 month
Linkin Park performing new song Heavy Is The Crown live in Hamburg. 📽️ by Jannik_tjb
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
Motionless In White is a massive band and deserves every ounce of success.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
Updated “bands to tour with eventually” bucket list: Architects A Day To Remember Killswitch Engage Slipknot Underoath
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
WHO DID THIS
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
Why do so many metalcore fans hate the idea of metalcore bands reaching larger audiences and becoming more commercially successful?
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
About to start dusting off my deathcore vocals 👀
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
I can’t stand when some Christians respond to valid criticism with “Well, the Bible told us we would be hated by the world”. No, you’re “hated” because you kicked your 14 year old son out of the house for coming out and refusing to go to conversion therapy.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
Metalcore is such a weird genre. Its like most of the successful metalcore bands are trying as hard as they can to get away from metalcore. Which I don't feel like is a normal thing in other genres. FFAK is not going to be one of those bands.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 month
To people upset about Emily Armstrongs ties with Scientology, do you also not enjoy movies or tv shows? Because I have some news for you about Hollywood….
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
A lot of your favorite bands are going to be selling the merch they bought for tour, online, in order to pay off all the merch debt they they could recoup due to tour cancellations. SUPPORT THEM.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
6 years
That Sponebob tease was messed up.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
My biggest priority with new FFAK material is to go back to our roots, and make sure that when we have a breakdown, it’s REALLY heavy. More of that deathcore inspiration in the music/vocals.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
Now that @Whataburger is going national. The country is about to learn what a medium drink is supposed to look like.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
So we are playing The Fillmore in Charlotte, NC (LiveNation Room). Show is sold out (1900 tickets). LiveNation is: - taking no merch rate - paying backend - giving $1500 for fuel/bus stock - buying food for the entire tour post-show Unreal
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
I Prevail needs to get more love for what they’ve done to elevate the ceiling for all heavy music.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
Look, I don’t care if you hate the new album, I don’t care if you stop listening to our band because we aren’t “heavy” anymore. But I will NEVER just sit and be okay with people saying our band doesn’t put heart into our music or that we were forced to write what we wrote.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
I will he removing all “bleghs” from our music indefinitely, in order to prevent the spread of Coronavirus.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
The time has come
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
“Slaughterhouse” by Motionless In White (featuring 🤫😉😏)
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
Same energy.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
The album is officially fully tracked. Now we wait 😯
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
A day to remember really wrote 4 straight 10/10 albums from 2007-2013.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
Bands announcing tours and people being excited instead of angry. You love to see it.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 month
Just knowing Linkin Park is back motivates me so much to write our best record ever. Meteora and Hybrid Theory shaped my entire musical taste for like 5 years
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
Who would be interested in us putting together an insanely heavy tour package, and only play our heaviest tracks for the set list? Asking for a friend.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
I love our new album art. “The Path” drops on 9.18.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
Security was VIBING.
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@fitforaking @ryankirbz that guitar squeal was insane
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
So my wife and I took our Tesla to get tinted this morning. The person asked for the key, I handed the Tesla card to them. He then said “who are you dropping this off for?”. Not everyone is a believer in metalcore money 😞
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
9 months
I’ve learned most people in r/metalcore might not actually like metalcore.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
Our new album isn’t the overall heaviest we have ever done. It’s the most metal we have done, for sure. And there will still be tracks in the vein of “Shattered Glass”, “Stacking Bodies”, and “Tower of Pain”. But I’ve never enjoyed our music more than what I’m hearing right now.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
My mental health is NOT tight atm tbh rn
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
Played a LiveNation venue last night that didn’t take a merch cut. Progress.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
UNPOPULAR OPINION: The Beatles were better when they were metalcore.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
I’m the trash can in Slipknot.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
I like metalcore. Sue me.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
The last track of our new album is easily a top 3 heaviest song we have ever written.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
Just closed on a new house, and am eating a brisket breakfast burrito. Life is good.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
I’m thankful for all the FFAK supporters that spend their time and money on us, enabling to help get these kids out of foster care. Thank you ♥️
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
The CDC recommends you wash your hands for 20 seconds. So scream the end of Backbreaker while washing your hands and you’ll be immune to all disease.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
I know bands always say this, but we legitimately wrote the heaviest breakdown we have ever written. And you will agree when it’s released.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
I don’t want to just one day be in a massive band. I want to be in a massive METALCORE band, that’s plays BREAKDOWNS.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
Our daughter is going to her first show ever for her 15th birthday tonight, and it’s @knockedloose in Dallas 😳
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
6 years
Here is the special moment. Ironically it happens right when I say “let this destroy me” 😂😂😂
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
While I am a Christian myself, as I travel the world and meet more people, I totally understand why people are turned off by the idea of being a Christian. Some of the most fake people I've met on tour were outspoken Christians. Some even seemed to LOVE judging other people.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
I’m going to be honest with you all, I have ZERO interest in playing socially distanced concerts. I would rather just wait for things to be back to where they were.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
The writing process for new FFAK has begun and I am ready to become a MUCH more metal band 😈
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
Celebrity worship is probably one of americas most toxic traits.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
The same people that call people “snowflakes” will have an existential crisis because their favorite metalcore vocalist cursed in a song that tears down the corrupt elite class.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
You aren’t ready for our headliner announcement.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
The US needs to get it together and do a full 8 week lockdown, give each person 80% of their income, and pay small/medium businesses 80% of their projected income. Our country isn’t making progress because we are asking for lockdowns, but with no financial assistance.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
Tesseract be like
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Kick streamer stole money from a restaurant tip jar to buy food
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
Imagine screaming at people and telling them to run in circles/push each other, and then getting paid for it.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
10 months
There will not be an album/ep in 2024. But there will be more music. We are definitely working on a new full length, but want to see how fans receive different styles of FFAK, as well as play them live, to see how we like them, before full on committing to a direction.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
6 months
I think our band does best as a band that writes deathcore leaning metalcore, and does melodic songs out of passion, not hopes of radio play. That being said, we have more music than we have ever written for a new record and exploring different producers. Extremely excited.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
20 days
To alleviate any concerns. No one in FFAK has attended a diddy party.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
The year is 2028. It’s now offensive to breathe out of your nose because it alienates people who mouth breathe. Our president is a Walmart self checkout machine. Your phone has 8 lenses, so you’re cool with it.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
Imagine not only admitting to the world that you take your merch persons tips, but also that you’re broke.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
I enjoy talking to people in headlining bands, making thousands a night in guarantee, about how capitalism sucks, while they pay their opener $100/night, and give them 2sq/ft to sell merch 😂
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
No one has ever said Burger King is their favorite fast food restaurant.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
Our biggest album comes out 10.28. It’s called “The Hell We Create”. Preorders at
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
I think we can all agree that Keanu Reeves should come out to a FFAK show.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
Our adopted children will see me play for the first time ever tomorrow 😳
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
One of my new goals is to let musicians know that you absolutely can make a comfortable living playing metalcore. This stereotype of all musicians being broke and not getting paid for their music is hurting our scene, and preventing others from fully committing to making music.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
How crazy is it that I’m 29 years old and adult people will still get upset if I ever cursed on stage or on social media, even though I do in regular everyday life? Pretty crazy.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
Hey @metalsucks , you’re right. On March 5th , when our agent suggested the reschedule, we should have known that this pandemic would last past the summer, because soooo many pandemics since 1918 have shut down the economy for long periods of time 🙄
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
6 years
If you’re a parent that doesn’t support your children’s musical endeavors because you don’t like the genre your son/daughter plays, I am of the opinion that you’re a bad parent. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
The “if your band can’t financially make it through 4 cancelled tours and a worldwide pandemic, maybe you should choose a different career path.” people have gotten REAL quiet.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
7 months
I miss political FFAK songs, like Pissed Off, Stacking Bodies, The Price of Agony, etc. Time to bring it back
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
6 years
A fan of the band who works at Yeti made this with their laser etcher, and I think we need to sell these now.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 months
I’ll be honest, since adopting kids in 2020, it’s been really hard focusing on music/social media, because being a dad is a full time job, and the most important job. (1/3)
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
Exactly 1 year after our tour was canceled, FFAK is officially out of debt from said tour. Big shout out to everyone that’s been so supportive.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
6 years
Should make a FFAK shirt that says “let this destroy me” and this pic on it.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
5 years
If you ever feel insignificant, remember this: You are living in the small speck of time, in the billions of years this universe has existed, where “bleghs” became a part of the world. We are a part of history. 🙌🏻
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
4 years
My least favorite thing about the Metalcore community (especially on Reddit) is that everything seems to be turned into a competition between bands/vocalists. The bands don’t see it that way, so why would anyone else?
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
1 year
There will be a restructure in the way FFAK releases new music. More singles/EPs while we take longer amounts of time perfecting albums. So no more album every 2 years, but more new music, and more intentional records.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
You’re not too cool to listen to metalcore.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
2 years
We tried selling FFAK masks at the beginning of the pandemic, and got harassed for trying to “profit off the pandemic”. But the same person goes on Amazon and buys a pack of lower quality masks. Some people just don’t like bands trying to survive/thrive, and it’s weird.
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Ryan Joseph Kirby
3 years
Played a show tonight for the first time in 488 days.
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