Submitted by Jeff Nelson:

I'm just writing to let you know how the show went last night. Of the four I've seen, this was probably the best because the band was really ON. I didn't realize that it was going to be an "all ages" event, and was a little apprehensive when I first saw all of the high school and junior high kids there, but they were really into it, and I think the band fed off of that. The whole performance was high energy, comparable to the Jan. 13 show at Moe.

A band called "Dickweed" opened, and they weren't that great. The other band that played was "The Lemons," and they were pretty good. 7 Year Bitch was definitely the main attraction, and they seemed genuinely happy to be there. Selene smiled and tried to talk to the crowd a lot more than I'd seen previously, and everything they did worked perfectly. They opened with one of the new songs (the chorus is something like "Now they're talking to me/I'm talking back again"), and played most of, if not all of, their new material. They also threw in "Lorna" and "Rock A Bye." Things got pretty rowdy in the pit, and it was a lot of fun. After the first set, they went off, and the crowd got extremely loud calling them back for an encore. When they returned, they played "The Scratch," a new one called "Second Hand," and finished with a slightly slowed down version of "Hip Like Junk." There was nothing really out of the ordinary to write about, but like I said before, their energy was incredible, and the whole thing just kicked my ass.

I would have never known about this if you hadn't told me, so thanks a lot, and I look forward to hearing your comments after the CD release party (I'm assuming you will be there).

A review by Christopher Ames that appeared in WWU's school paper The Western Front:

A mob of disheveled youth (average age of about 16) filled the Viking Union Main Lounge Sat., Feb. 24, to see the all-female band 7 Year Bitch.

After a remarkably unremarkable opening by Dickweed and the Lemons, the collective mood of the audience as 7 Year Bitch took the stage was one of anxious expectation, hoping to get their money's worth. Three things set 7 Year Bitch apart from the rest of the loud, rock world.

The first is that they are very competent musicians. Elizabeth Davis, bassist, is outstanding, which is rare the usually anonymous bass player. The band puts their seperate parts together into a very taut package.

Secondly, Selene Vigil, vocalist, is simple amazing. Prior to the show, I had heard 7 Year Bitch only on CD. I had expected to see a large and powerful body equal to the voice I heard. To my surprise, Vigil appears to be barely 5 feet tall and right around 100 pounds. She uses every fiber of her body to conjure up her voice, which ranges from a impish purr to a staccato roar that sounds like that of a lion.

The third aspect of 7 Year Bitch that is special is their attitude and presence. Their irreverent attitude has produced such lyrics as "It's to late, to fall in love with Sharon Tate." (Note: this is not an original song, it's a cover of one of Jim Carroll's songs)

During the show, Vigil writhed and posed all over the stage, enticing and titillating the audience, while Davis stood behind her bass defiantly, almost daring the audience to give the band something they couldn't handle. That didn't happen.

7 Year Bitch's regular set was solid, featuring mostly new material off their forthcoming CD, "Gato Negro." While it's always nice to hear something new, I was disappointed that they didn't play some of their older songs, like "Sharon Tate." (Note: the song is actually called "It's Too Late") The unfamiliarity of their play-list had the effect of dampening the rowdiness of the crowd. It was clear that most were enjoying the songs, but many withheld their enthusiasm for their 7 Year Bitch favorites. Shouts of demanding that the band play "Scratch" had been coming up from the audience all through the regular set.

Vigil finally appeased the crowd in the first song of the encore, belting out the opening lyric "I want it, Give to Me, I need it" to start off the encore which, in retrospect, defined the show. At hearing something they knew, the crowd went wild. The mosh pit, which had been occupied only by a few 14 year-old Cobain disciples during the regular set, quickly expanded to include almost the entire audience before the first verse of "Scratch" was finished.

Although the crowd begged the band to play more after finishing the third and final song of their encore, I think that 7 Year Bitch showed real performance wisdom in not playing a second encore. The hyper-kinetic energy of the encore left the audience drained, and anything else the band could have played would not have lived up to it. However, 7 Year Bitch should have played some older material earlier in their set to warm the audience up. As it happened, the crowd was left guessing at what the band was playing and remained subdued until the encore. Instead, the crowd left on a high-note, exhausted and dragging their flannels on the ground.

Submitted by Erin:

i went n saw em last night at the vu -this tiny little auditorium-like thing- and they rocked, as usual.the guitarist(sorry, cant remember her name) was at the desk with al the 7yb merch. i didnt even know itwas her till she was on stage. they played mostly new songs off Gato Negro, the only ones i recognized being lorna, and m.i.a. they came back after 3 minutes of yelling. and in liz and selene's words "wow, thank you guys so much, ya know you should all be in rock bands, youre so loud . yeah bellingham!" now to start the countdown to gato negro.

Submitted by Sunshine:

I SAW 7 YEAR BITCH IN BELLINGHAM ON 2/24/96. IT WAS THE BEST 7 YEAR SHOW I'VE EVER BEEN TO. THE LEMONS AND DICKWEED OPENED UP FOR THEM, AND THEY KINDOF SUCKED, BUT THATS O.K., CAUSE 7 YEAR BICH DEFENATLY MADE UP FOR THAT. 7 YEAR BITCH IS MY FAVORITE BAND, AND JUST SEEING THEM LIVE MAKES ME THE HAPPIEST I EVER AM.SELENE VIGIL IS SO FUCKING HOT, I GOT AN ORGASM JUST BY LOOKING AT HER SCREAMING UP ON STAGE. SHE IS POWERFULL IN THE WORDS SHE SINGS, AND I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT SHE IS THE SHIT.