Champagne Jam 2017 at Asbury Park Convention Hall
photo by Sean Madden

Champagne Jam 2017 pics: Front Bottoms, AJJ, White Reaper, Slaughter Beach Dog & more

After supporting their new album Going Grey on a massive tour this year, The Front Bottoms headlined their annual Champagne Jam holiday show at Asbury Park’s Convention Hall on Saturday (12/16). It was the first Champagne Jam that took place in their home state of NJ, after previously hosting the others in NYC.

TFB worked a lot of treats into their setlist, including “Today Is Not Real,” a song frontman Brian Sella had written before TFB formed. They also made the live debut of a Going Grey bonus track, and they had “Christmastime Is Here” play on tape for the festive season. Their full 24-song setlist is below.

The many openers included AJJ, The Districts, White Reaper, Delicate Steve, Slaughter Beach Dog, Weakened Friends and American Trappist. Pictures, including portraits with some of the artists, are in the gallery above.

Watch TFB play “Today Is Not Real” below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zd45G48KE4

The Front Bottoms at Champagne Jam 2017 (setlist and notes via Setlist.fm)
You Used to Say (Holy Fuck)
Skeleton
Lone Star
West Virginia
Be Nice to Me
Maps
The Plan (Fuck Jobs)
Peace Sign
Vacation Town (Snippet of “Christmastime Is Here” played on tape before)
Tattooed Tears
Plastic Flowers
Au Revoir (Adios) (Dedicated to a girl, Maggie, whose 100th TFB show it was)
The Beers
Bonus Track 1 (Bonus track on Going Grey vinyl; live debut)
Wolfman (with The Wolfman onstage on a couch)
Backflip
Grand Finale
Today Is Not Real (Live debut of a pre-TFB Brian Sella song)
Don’t Fill Up On Chips
Twin Size Mattress

Encore:
Twelve Feet Deep
Everyone but You
Flashlight
Ocean (drunkenly)

photos by Sean Madden