The lot behind the Annex had been used for years without permission and without incident, which is its own kind of achievement. It was used for the last time in December, on a borrowed rig that arrived at seven and was standing by nine.
Six Below played facing the wall, as is their practice, and the crowd arranged itself in the dark behind them without being asked to. There was no stage and no barrier. The sound moved out across open ground and came back off the brick, and for two hours the lot behind a closed building was the loudest address in southern Arizona.
The gate was chained within the week. The rig was returned intact, which is the only mercy the night extended to anyone. †