It was just over a year ago when Anti-Flag last visited us at the MTelus in Montreal. It was a particularly memorable show for two reasons. One, it was my first time photographing a show in almost two years due to 'The Plague', and two, an event took place that the members of Anti-Flag also remembered. Due to COVID related restrictions at the time, there was to be no dancing or movement at all during these kind of events. As I entered the MTelus that night, I immediately noticed all of the chairs that were lining the floor. The chairs survived the first couple of notes of the first song Anti-Flag played that night before the frustration of almost two years of people being locked down erupted into a mass of humanity surging towards the stage. On this night, they referred to it as The Great Disappearance. One moment there
were chairs, the next moment, they were gone. That got a chuckle out of the crowd, but you don't go to an Anti-Flag show for a chuckle. You go to an Anti-Flag show to rock out, and that's what the sold out crowd did. From the pit, we were dodging feet and flailing body parts from the crowd surfers while also try to catch the moment when a band member would leap into the air or seemingly float across the stage. Their most recent album was released in 2020, but with a new album due in 2023, Lies They Tell Our Children, you can probably bet that they will be back soon than later. The first photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/320sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm and the second photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/250sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm. Here are several more photographs of their performance.
