Alexisonfire, Poison the Well and Touché Amoré book Channel 24 for April

A Saturday night post-hardcore triple bill lands in Sacramento on April 3, 2027.

Three bands, one Saturday, and a lot of people who've waited a long time to hear these songs in the same room. On Saturday, April 3, 2027, Alexisonfire headlines Channel 24 in Sacramento with Poison the Well and Touché Amoré, and music starts at 7 p.m.

The run was announced Nov. 3. Channel 24 holds 2,150, and tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The show listing has the full details. Sacramento gets the Saturday slot on this swing, the night before the same three bands play Oakland's Fox Theater, so for anyone in the valley this is the easy one to get to.

Start with the headliner. Alexisonfire is a post-hardcore band from St. Catharines, Ontario, formed in 2001, according to Wikipedia. The lineup is George Pettit, Dallas Green, Wade MacNeil, Chris Steele and Jordan Hastings. Their most recent album, *Otherness*, came out in June 2022 on Dine Alone, their first full-length in thirteen years. The band produced it themselves at Jukasa Recording Studios in Ontario, and it opened with the single "Sweet Dreams of Otherness," per the label announcement covered by Spill. Cult MTL gave it 8.5 out of 10, writing that it took their screamo and post-hardcore sound to bolder, more mature places, and it won the Juno for Rock Album of the Year, per Qobuz.

Poison the Well has a comeback of its own to show off. *Peace in Place* came out March 20 this year on SharpTone Records, the band's first album since 2009's *The Tropic Rot*; Blabbermouth put the gap at 17 years. The record is ten songs, produced by Will Putney, led by the single "Thoroughbreds." Wall of Sound gave it 9.5 out of 10, and Everblack reviewed it too.

Sacramento gets the Saturday. For anyone in the valley, this is the easy one to get to.

Then Touché Amoré, a band that's been on the road steadily for years, including a 2022 North American tour behind *Lament*. With a 7 p.m. start, plan to be there for them. This is a stacked bill from the first song.

What ties it together is that both of the bigger names went away for more than a decade and came back with records that critics liked. That doesn't always happen. When it does, the shows tend to feel less like a victory lap and more like a band with something to prove.

Channel 24 is a good size for it. At 2,150, it's big enough for three bands with this much history and still the kind of room where you can see faces on stage from most of the floor.

It's a Saturday in April, the weather should be on your side, and there's no work in the morning. Get tickets now, and get there early enough to catch all three.

Sources: JamBase: Alexisonfire at Channel 24, Apr 3, 2027 (jambase.com); Ticketmaster: Alexisonfire & Poison the Well, Sacramento (ticketmaster.evyy.net); JamBase: Poison the Well at Fox Theater, Apr 4, 2027 (jambase.com); Wikipedia: Alexisonfire (en.wikipedia.org); Wikipedia: Otherness (Alexisonfire album) (en.wikipedia.org); Spill Magazine: Alexisonfire announce new album Otherness out June 24 (spillmagazine.com); Cult MTL: Alexisonfire Otherness review (cultmtl.com); Qobuz: Alexisonfire (qobuz.com); Blabbermouth: POISON THE WELL Announces First New Album In 17 Years, 'Peace In Place' (blabbermouth.net); Wikipedia: Peace in Place (en.wikipedia.org); Wall of Sound: Poison The Well – Peace In Place (Album Review) (wallofsoundau.com); Everblack: Poison The Well – Peace In Place (everblack.com.au); Vanyaland: Touché Amoré unveil 2022 Lament tour (vanyaland.com)