Stick To Your Guns / Courtesy of Stick To Your Guns By Jon Dunbar Jesse Barnett, hardcore frontman, has already performed in Korea once before, but that honor doesn't belong to the Orange County-based hardcore band Stick To Your Guns — that honor belongs to an obscure band named Down for the Sound, which only played one show ever back in 2019. "This will be STYG’s first time in Korea but I actually have a funny story about the last time I was in Seoul," Barnett told The Korea Times. Following STYG's Japan tour that year with LA hardcore band Terror, Barnett flew to Seoul for a visit with his friend Thomas from Montréal.
During his stay, Seo Ki-seok (known in scenes around the world simply as "Ki") from the Seoul hardcore band the Geeks reached out and offered to show them around. "We later randomly ran into Dennis from (Australian hardcore band) Speed who's also been a friend for quite some time. It was pretty amazing," Barnett recounted.
Later that night while they were all having dinner together, Seo mentioned there was a hardcore show coming up in Seoul in a couple days. "We joked about starting a band with the four of us and going and playing," Barnett said. "Next thing I know I’m in a practice space in Seoul, a city I’ve never been to, playing drums in a band with a guy from Sydney, a guy from Seoul and a guy from Montréal.
We wrote three songs and played two Agnostic Front covers and it was one of the most special experiences I’ve had in my life. I will re.
