Torche Got Robbed

“After our Chicago show at the Congress Theater on May 14 between 1:30AM and 4:00AM our van was broken into while parked in front of Goethe Elementary and a bunch of equipment was stolen. Items taken include music equipment, personal items/luggage, band/personal checkbook, cameras, laptop, and passports.”


In hopes our metal sisters and brothers may be able to help them recover their stolen equipment (because pretty much anyone living in the inner city appreciates how truly shitty being robbed/mugged is) the missing items are as follows.




1.    Custom Electrical Guitar Company bass w/hardcase #220
2.    First Act custom bass w/hardcase serial number # JN-0901002
3.    Black Gibson Custom Les Paul w/SKB hardcase (has chip on the top L side of headstock, visible neck repair on top side of the neck, may have missing paint opposite vol and tone knobs if sticker was removed).
4.    Custom Woodfinish guitar w/hardcase
5.    Acoustic 370 Bass Head
6.    2 x SKB PS25 pedal boards
7.    2 x Boss tuning pedals
8.    MXR Phase 90
9.    Boss DD5 pedal
10.    Boss guitar EQ pedal
11.    Custom 3 way amp selector (metallic blue)
12.    Fulltone OCD pedal
13.    Aguilar Tone Hammer pedal
14.    Boss Bass EQ pedal
15.    Shure Beta 57
16.    Misc Mogami, Monster, and George L's cable
17.    Suitcase style 7 space guitar stand
18.    Black iPod Touch
19.    Black Compaq Presario laptop
20.    Nikon Blue Coolpix camera
21.    Sony CyberShot camera
22.    Garmin 205W GPS
23.    Black Luggage containing: tubes, guitar strings, instrument cables, speaker cables, tuning pegs, surge protectors.

Hydra Head has also set up a Paypal page for donations from fans who are feeling generous, able, or willing to help out the band who obviously are in a very tight spot. Also, because Torche can’t cross the Canadian border with Coheed & Cambria due to their passports being stolen, they will be playing three more American shows in Winooski, Boston and Wilkes-Barre. The American portion of the package tour will resume on May 21 in Philadelphia. Torche’s updated tour dates are as follows.

5/17 Boston, MA @ House of Blues w/ Coheed And Cambria & Circa Survive
5/18 Winooski, VT @ Monkey House w/ The Sight Below, Painted Manes, Burrows
5/19 Boston, MA @ House Show (TBA) w/ Sewer Goddess, Riff Cannon, Elder
5/20 Wilkes-Barre, PA @ Cafe Metropolis w/ TBA
5/21 Philadelphia, PA @ The Electric Factory w/ Coheed And Cambria & Circa Survive
5/22 Philadelphia, PA @ The Electric Factory w/ Coheed And Cambria & Circa Survive
5/23 Baltimore, MD @ Barclay House w/ Heaviness Of The Load, Bad Biology, 1994, Letsss
5/24 Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter w/ Cannabis Corpse
5/26 New York, NY @ Rumsey Playfield w/ Coheed And Cambria & Circa Survive
5/27 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club w/ Coheed And Cambria & Circa Survive
5/28 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club w/ Coheed And Cambria & Circa Survive
5/29 Atlantic City, NJ @ House of Blues w/ Coheed And Cambria & Circa Survive