Sub Ordnance's first adventure was under the name Chainsore for a night titled +- that was part of the BEAP Festival and was hosted by the Bakery in Northbridge back in 2007. It was initially intended to be a one off thing with Charles Chase, Shoshana Rosenberg and myself hence the throw away name for the group. It turned out to be an interesting night for many reasons. The first was getting a fairly good response from the crowd that night. I normally have a "this what we are doing and you can take it or leave it" attitude but that night we managed to keep the attention of the audience. The second interesting result from our outdoor performance was a noise complaint from an inner city resident near the venue. Three guys screaming , revving chainsaws and drumming are bound to piss somebody off but what made this interesting (and this was conveyed to me by a reliable source) was that the lower frequencies were resonating the walls of an apartment block a good fifty meters away. The third and almost tragic event was the near division of the event organizer via chainsaw which was captured on video (see video section). It was possible that most thought it was part of the show and what a grand finally to the show it was. This almost fatal occurrence haunted me for some time. It was a good couple of years and with a couple of safety modifications to the saw before the group re emerged as Sub Ordnance.