just the subject header [of his e-mail], and it had all these semicolons and like a four-way conjunction, so we just sent back the shortest e-mail saying, 'That's the title.' He tried to get us to change it a number of times, but we were like, 'Nope. That's it. The band played a pair of sold out farewell shows on August 22 at the Troubadour in West Hollywood and August 23 at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Harris said of the latter that "the final show was I think the Matches' best show. We sold out the Fillmore which is where I used to make nachos as a kid—it was one of my first jobs. It was a really weird, full-circle vindication of a dream. It was a really nice goodbye." With the Matches on hiatus, Devoto fleshed out his acoustic project into a full band called Bird by Bird, while Harris and Grigg named their project Maniac. Between 2010 and 2011 Bird by Bird released two EPs and one album, while Maniac released one EP and one album. Harris then started a new project, Fortress Social Club, who released two albums and an EP in 2013. Harris also continued to work as a visual artist, contributing to the album artwork of Bayside's Shudder (2008) and Milo Greene's Milo Greene (2012) and Control (2015). Reunions (2014–2018) In January 2014, Shawn Harris, Justin San Souci, Matt Whalen, and Jon Devoto met while all were back in Oakland. Their licensing deal with Epitaph Records for E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals had expired, so they decided to re-release it themselves as an LP record (the original releases had been in compact disc format) to coincide with the ten-year anniversary of the Epitaph release. They began teasing the release through social media, prompting inquiries and demand for a reunion concert. That May, they announced a one-time reunion show to take place in November at Slim's in San Francisco. It sold out immediately, as did a second date added at Slim's and a third at the Great American Music Hall. Due to the unexpected demand, further reunion shows were added in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. The re-release of E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals came out that September as a two-disc package, including both the original self-released version of the album and the re-mixed Epitaph version. The band ended up performing nine