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Posted on: Friday, March 12, 2004

Band keeping hope while it takes a break

By Derek Paiva
Advertiser Entertainment Writer

The Hope Conspiracy, a hardcore rock band from Boston, is heading for Honolulu for a gig at Tabu Nightclub.

Dale Rio

The Hope Conspiracy swears it is not breaking up. It is, however, at something of a crossroads.

According to its Web site, www.thehopeconspiracy.net, the Boston-born, hard-core punk band will take an extended break after a handful of March shows (including one this weekend in Honolulu), to do "what we need to do with our lives at the moment — and that is not being completely consumed by this band for the time being."

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Hope Conspiracy

With Generic, Vax, The Ex-Superheroes

8 p.m. today

Tabu Nightclub, 478 'Ena Road

$10 advance, $12 door

Presale tickets available at www.808shows.com.

Also: A CD release party for the Hawaiian Express local band compilation "Hawaiian Punk."

A brief but nonetheless blistering sonic attack of unfiltered hard-core bliss, Hope Conspiracy's most recent CD, 2002's "Endnote," attracted longtime fans of the band, if no one else in particular. On its Web site, the band writes about being $10,000 in debt to its record company, Equal Vision Records, for helping settle a lawsuit filed against the band by a concertgoer who claimed to have been injured at a Hope Conspiracy show.

The band is accepting donations via the online service PayPal; information is on the band's Web site.

The good news: Hope Conspiracy still hopes to have another CD of new material out by the end of the year.

The bad news: It doesn't sound all that convinced if it actually will.

Reach Derek Paiva at dpaiva@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8005.

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