The music industry has no shortage of horror stories about headlining acts treated its openers like dirt, denying them a soundcheck, shenanigans with the PA, and so on – but it is not always like that. Sometimes the headliner saves the day.
Mike Sullivan of Russian Circles can attest to that. On Instagram, Sullivan recalls a night at London’s Brixton Academy, in 2007, when the Chicago-based prog metal instrumentalists were supporting Tool, and Sullivan’s guitar amp anxiety – and thus his pre-show anxiety – was spiraling out of control.
