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Lincoln Hall is located at 2424 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago, IL.
Advance tickets guarantee entry to the show.
- They are general admission only and DO NOT guarantee seating.
- For the best seats/position in the music room please arrive 30 minutes prior to show time to pick-up your tickets.
- All shows are 21+ unless otherwise noted.
Tickets ARE NOT mailed to you.
- A NON-REFUNDABLE $2.75 per ticket service charge will be added to the purchase price of each ticket - in the instance of a show cancellation, this fee will not be returned.
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- The name in the 'Shipping Address' portion of your order will be the name your tickets are held under at the door- if you are buying tickets for someone else, you must indicate their name in these fields.
- Advance tickets are only available through LincolnHallChicago.com (until 5 pm day of show) and JamUSA.com when noted. Lincoln Hall does not have a physical box office. Walk-up ticket purchases are only available at Lincoln Hall beginning one hour before listed show time unless the show is sold out.

Wed. Jun 16 2010

Born Ruffians

Young Rival

Netherfriends

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Wednesday, June 16 2010 9:00 PM
18+ $12.00

Lincoln Hall

Midland, Ontario. Back when this place was a wilderness, eight Jesuit priests were slaughtered by Iroquois; then canonized. Midland gave you saints. Then kept quiet. For 350 years. Until three Born Ruffians darker, louder, and more magical in life than any saint is in death came down from the hills to kick some ass.

That was in 2002, and since then the Born Ruffians Luke LaLonde, Mitch DeRosier and Steve Hamelin have been razing bigger and bigger stages without looking back.

In fact first they look down, starting every show in a huddle. There some occult energy is summoned, deemed good, and exploded into a set of writhing, jagged pop songs as beautiful and dangerous as shards of broken glass.

Through it all a bewitching throb of cascading drums. You'd swear they were on the war path, till a pure rock and roll howl and sharp guitar hooks bring you back to the indie universe. Amidst the shouts and claps and the odd trombone slur, a tenderness somehow shrouds the whole thing theres something saintly about them after all.