Oct 29th, 2008

Downtown Brew and Numbskull Productions is proud to present: Senses Fail, with openers Dance Gavin Dance, Sky Eats Airplane, and Foxy Shazam. Senses Fail took their musical influences of punk, metal, and hardcore and mixed them with poetry, emotion, literature, religion, eastern philosophy and spirituality to create their own sound and image. The name "Senses Fail" is derived from the Buddhist belief in Nirvana. Lead singer Nielsen explains, "In Buddhism, they believe that being alive is hell, and the only way to reach Nirvana is to ultimately have no attachments to anything. So, people go out and live in the middle of the woods and they don't eat and don't drink. They just meditate because they've reached such a high level where they're not attached to love, relationships or anything. And if you want to reach the highest level of being and see God, you have to have all your senses fail." This is the same ideal they follow while up on stage performing.