WHOOP WHOOP! This is the tale of Laura and I's adventure to see the Insane Clown Posse. As with our other concert adventures, a company that gives "free" (had to pay a $13 service charge for them) tickets to Veterans (vettix.org) emailed me Thursday with "The following event has just opened up: Insane Clown Posse" And for once, the show is in San Antonio and not Austin, WHOOP WHOOP! We going! (this is where my brain goes crazy and I look up directions, parking, what the venue looks like, and try to over think the logistics of going). Laura and I packed a cooler bag with some water/soda and ice packs, loaded up in the minivan, and headed downtown in Fri rush hour traffic. The only event details said it started at 6PM. I assumed there would be an opening act, but no info was easily available for me to confirm. So we aimed to be there before 6PM. Which means we grabbed some drive thru on the way to eat while we drove. Classic Date Night lol. We get downtown to what used to be called Sunset Station. It's now called The Espee. It was renamed in 2019 as part of a local develops plan to revive the area and turn the station into a hub for live music and events (basically they made it bigger with more venue spaces). The reason for the name Espee is the train station, which this area is literally right next to the tracks and an Amtrack stop, was often referred to as "the SP" for "Southern Pacific railroad"...so the SP... The Espee....yeah I had nothing to do with it, it's silly. But now I hijacked this story for a train fact about a train station so ha ha gotcha! We park ($20? ugh) on the other side of the tracks from the venue, walk by a beautiful historic decommissioned Steam Locomotive, go to the box office to pick up the free tickets (first time I ever picked up will call tickets. That was neat). The show has 3 tiers of tickets, The pit. Sold out. The covered general admission area, and the uncovered general admission area. We are in the uncovered. As in last tier. Oh well, free is free (minus the $13 service fee, and parking...). SO. MANY. CLOWNS. People with Facepaint. Some with outfits. One (shown in the photos) looked like a well known anime character (Hatsune Miku) crossed with a clown. Wild stuff. The uncovered general admission area has a grassy area, with a few park benches, and luckily for us, a little wall that happens to go up to where the barrier separating the covered GA space from the uncovered GA space. Basically even though it's 'standing room only' general admission, Laura and I were able to find a place to sit and see the stage pretty decently. While also allowing us to stand up for a better view, and we weren't crowded or anything. WHOOP WHOOP! We find our spot, and what is that in the middle of the pit/covered GA area? A wrestling ring?! WTF? we think out loud Sign says JCW Lunacy. Quick google. JCW stands for Juggalo Championship Wrestling. That's right, amateur WWE style wrestling. With characters, stories, and all that jazz. They even put it out on the youtubes and stuff with a decent following. Was not expecting that. Highlights from wrestling in no particular order. Right as it started I heard the classic sound of a modern Diesel Electric Train going by the station, it was faint due to the buildings, but I heard it (uhoh). There was a Luchador Ninja (is the guy standing next to a green haired lady in the photos). One of the wrestlers was 7 feet tall, it was ridiculous. One of the wrestlers, was announced seriously as "THE EASTER BUNNY" A guy in a easter bunny costume (the kind you'd see at a mall for pictures in the 90's). He had a fanny pack of candy that he offered some to the other wrestlers and to the crowd. He literally BUNNY HOPPED across the stage to close line another wrestler. They tore his ears off at one part (Later the easter bunny head could be seen held up in the crowd during the concert portion). One of the wrestlers was a large (close to 300lb) black dude named 'Chocolate Juggalo' (Laura's favorite I think lol)(also in the photos). He did a backflip slam thing and it was impressive to see a man of that size be acrobatic. There were some very large wrestlers, and a classic pairing of a like 400lb wrestler with a skinny pole of a wrestler as a tag-team. The crowd was riled into chanting various things like "MICRO PENIS *clap clap clap*(sounded out more like MY CROW PEE NESS), "Pussy" and other vulgarities toward the 'bad' wrestlers. Even though you can tell a lot of it was faked and staged, some of the flips and things people did off the ropes was the kind of athletic shit I could not do if I tried. After the Wrestling ended, they cleared out the lower GA area so they could break down and remove the ring, which was interesting to watch. Then the concert started. Again, had no clue who was opening for ICP as the venue page just had ICP and 6pm as the only info. The place I got the tickets had the same info. First up was a guy named Ganksta NIP. He is the pioneer of what's called horrorcore hip-hop (ie rap songs about horror type stuff). One of his songs lyrics was "I JUST ATE A BODYYYYYYYYY!!". It was pretty decent. After their set, the next up was Wakko The Kidd. Eh. His stuff was alright I guess, but each song seemed almost the same as the last. Mostly about doing drugs (weed/mushrooms) and getting money. We didn't enjoy his set as much. Then finally, after 3 or so hours of wrestling and openers, finally got to the Insane Clown Posse concert. WHOOP WHOOP! It was great! (of course). They sang some of their classics. They poured Faygo soda all over everyone in the pit area (seriously, we're talking like a hundred 2 liter bottles worth, one of the pictures toward the end in the album shows the floor covered with soda and empty 2 liters). Sung about their Axe (SWING SWING SWING!!! CHOP CHOP CHOP!!!). It was a great time! WHOOP WHOOP! Oddly though, their set was only maybe an hour? That felt weird for a group that's been around for over 25 years to only do an hour set. After it was over we sat on the little wall for a few minutes (let the crowd start going, and rest a bit as we stood for the entire ICP set). Then we slowly made our way back to our car on the other side of the tracks. When we got in the car, grabbed our cooler bag and got the A/C blasting, the nearby train crossing guard/lights activated. Meaning leaving the parking lot then wasn't going to be worth trying as a train was coming through. So we stayed parked and i got to watch a 3 engine cargo train (mainly carrying empty auto hauler train cars) go by ohshit I think I'm autistic. Went home (with a small stop for ice cream) and that was that. We had a great and strange night, really enjoyed ourselves, it was fun! Some other random bits I couldn't fit properly in my insane ramblings: There was A LOT of 'skunk' smell throughout the evening, if you know what I mean. There were 2-3 teenage (I think) girls 5 or so feet from us that did the most annoying screaming I've heard in a while that really pierced the ear drums. Water was $6/bottle (not the worst price for venue water we've paid), and they tore the labels off the bottles...which was just weird. The bottles didn't look like the cheap walmart kind so no clue what we drank and if we're gonna die. There is a nightclub as part of The Espee location, and there were a lot of people who seemed generally confused by the flood of clown paint wearing individuals streaming by them when the concert let out. I broke some plants on purpose...the wall we were at had a bush with kind of like fronds that had very pointy bits that kept poking Laura, so I snapped them back a bit away from the wall so they'd stop poking here. They were still attached and we're talking like 3-4 out of a few dozen on the plant, it'll live. And I'm probably forgetting things. Anyways, 10/10 would go again!