Observation about the 2026 all points east concert

[twilit umbra]

Not a theory, just an observation I thought was cool.
Saw someone on tiktok (@/angelikas28 is their username, i'm not sure if i'd be allowed to link the video) point out that around the park which APE2026 is taking place, there's a number of businesses and locations with names that connect to the lore (as seen in the image below)
And it got me thinking

We know that on the day, the boys will be performing at east stage. If you line that up with the map of the park on google maps, it'd be roughly where the green line is, with the stage facing inwards, with its back to most of the easter-egg locations (if you can call them that) except for bishop's way.
Metaphorically, they'll be performing with their backs to the banditos, facing the way of the bishops.

Could it have implications for the lore? Maybe? Considering how much Tyler has said they enjoy performing in the UK and how there was lore-related stuff in London at the end of the Clancy tour, they could end off with the APE show and drop something. Guess we won't know til the time.
I'm not sure how much sense that makes, but I thought it was pretty cool!

[pastel chasm]

also Ned's Club not too far away
but i'm pretty sure this is all coincidence

[wanton field]

I'm 99% sure this is coincidence, but if you connect the dots (easter - pun intended - eggs places), they form an arrow pointing East-ish... East is up, all points east etc.
I was 'walking' through google streets view around those points and found some interesting stuff. This IS coincidence as those places were probably photographed before Breach, maybe even Clancy... but none of my friends care about the lore (or the band) so I thought I leave it here for other delulu ppl 😆

This band made me insane.

[twilit umbra]

You got me lookin at the stuff nearby too. particularly the fact that the places on the map are close to an arrow.
Points almost straight into the 2012 olympic park and, interestingly, the tip of the arrow (nico's bar) is almost perfectly in line with eastcross bridge.
While, like you said, it's likely a coincidence, it does feel fitting that the locations are pointing towards stuff to do with the olympics, when there's the whole thing of the olympic torch and that (i can't remember much abt the 2012 olympics but off the top of my head im sure the torch bearer would've went somewhere near victoria park on the way to the olympic stadium)

Also noticed that if you look at the bigger picture, the way the 'arrow' points leads towards the sea, eventually.
Which makes me think of march to the sea (though the uk is all coast so you're bound to reach the sea eventually ig 💀)

There's also a location near nico's bar past the bridge called sunrise close (which also has a building called sunflower house). Again it follows that arrow pointing east, sorta giving off Truce vibes.

[wanton field]

There are too many coincidences! If I were in London rn, I would definitely go to Nico's Bar to check if there's anything there as the sign with AmEx's "win tickets" was nearby... If AmEx organised a ticket competition before in this area, maybe they are doing this again. Or I'm delulu. Again.

[uncut vapor]

This is actually crazy and amazing

[wanton field]

One of us! One of us! Please join the madness

[twilit umbra]

the google maps madness 🗣🗣🗣

[gritty gorge]

port vial theory comes back to bite us

[twilit umbra]

ooh im not familiar with this theory actually. mind telling me a bit abt it? 👀

[gritty gorge]

I don't know much about it, but the main concept is that the cycle must end by escaping trench itself, through leaving the ocean (east is down)

[twilit umbra]

ohh i see! that checks out actually i feel like that makes a lot of sense.

i had a theory a while back that i posted on here before breach (so a lot of it is outdated i was mainly theorising abt city walls) and some of the stuff i put there would link really well with that if i could remember what the theory was 💀

[twilit umbra]

Tried to find it but couldn't 😔 remember it was to do with the whole Clancy way thing and how it's laid out.
Cause you got the way it mirrors with the map of trench, it starts making sense. Clancy's way of going about things just leads him straight back to dema, so he has to go the opposite way to break it.
(which i see now is the port vial theory; i didn't know that was a thing when i looked at it before)

I dont have the screenshots anymore but i remember that just after drum show released, someone saw that the lyrics for the backing vocals towards the end (on apple music i think?) read 'i want to drown' rather than 'i want to change'. while im not sure that's the actual lyric, i feel like if you listen closely it does sound a bit like that.

So maybe Clancy, either this Clancy or the next, goes through the cycle again, but goes west instead. And ends up in the water.
Maybe even it ends up that Bishop Clancy does so. His paint doesn't go as far as the other bishops' did before him, so maybe he has just enough autonomy left to make the choice to break the cycle, even if he's already lost to it.

Originally thought before breach that could be. like. some sorts self-sacrificing thing where he takes down the bishops but dies in the process (which makes sense with ACATAD lyric 'i'll take the grave, please just send them all my way') but now breach is out its clear that's now how its went.

Unless, that is, its a delayed thing. Maybe Clancy ends up trying to tear dema down from within using his new bishop status (which makes some sense looking at how he speaks in some of his letters maybe?) but still dies from it.

Not sure how much sense this will make at the moment, might be rambling and completely off the original topic but i find it very interesting!

[twilit umbra]

okay another thing that just came to mind (might be mildly repeating myself? idk.)
I tried to line up the two maps (the APE locations and the Clancy way one in ohio) with eachother. Because i thought that the fact that the arrow at APE sorta messes with the port vial theory, as the port is west not east.
But then i had a thought.
Clancy is a bishop now. So his way is no longer his, it's the bishops way

what's on the map? bishop's way.

if you were to place bishops way on the APE map over where Clancy way is on the ohio map, the arrow of the locations at APE point west.
And where's west? port vial.

So they line up if you think of it that way.

[wanton field]

If it's not a coincidence, it should lead somewhere, like a place, hidden message, a code... so I took a loooooong virtual walk through the streets surrounding the easter eggs' locations. It took me 3 hours to realize that the photos are too old to show anything of interest. Maybe there' s something there now... I imagine it would be a waste of the unique opportunity for another arg, this time irl

[wanton field]

https://youtu.be/Rly3pzcxv7A?si=v6cPsttqw1SYHd9P

[twilit umbra]

omg perligo i love his stuff! pretty neat that he's made a video on this ima go watch that 👀

[wanton field]

he made a deep research so we didn't have to 😉

[twilit umbra]

true there could be irl stuff. esp with how APE was marketed with the projectors around London. it'd be interesting to find out where exactly those projections popped up. I wonder if anyone's made a note of that. Cause there were the ones that said 'All points east is up' but there was also at least one with just the symbol instead of any text. Might be something to look into, though I imagine they put a lot of them just in high footfall areas for advertising instead of anywhere specific

[wanton field]

I think it's the latter. What also makes me think is this "up" thing - posts with pics made from above the stage, post with the 'look up' caption, boys looking up during hall of fame ceremony, josh looking up during doing his drummer magic on youtube... east is up. We know. But what should we do with all of this? Maybe we should move the arrow up/north on the map (and we should look for something there)?

[wanton field]

Or maybe not and we should collect our tin-foil hats at the door....

[twilit umbra]

ooh i like the idea of moving the arrow up.
The look up thing also makes me think a little about lavish, but this might be a bit of a crack theory.
But hear me out...
During lavish in concerts there's the whole 'marriage thing' and then on the line "from the floor to the cieling" Josh and Tyler both look up.
Now, this might be completely inaccurate but I thought what if them looking up is something to do with seizing. Cause to seize you have to raise your hands above your head and look up. I did think at one point maybe they were both looking up because they were being seized but idk how much sense that makes (and also when we see examples of seizing such as Clancy seizing Keons in the outside mv that doesn't really happen) Idk what this could mean but its something that i've thought of for a little bit.
Maybe even though Nico breaks the antlers in City walls, Clancy can still seize because he's a bishop now? Maybe whatever is going to happen will have some sort of ties to seizing

[gritty gorge]

theres a road called "bishops way", which could be similar to clancy way, where it all started

and the festival is the last stop before the hiatus, showing its the ending stop, being a bishop

[wanton field]

Bishop's way is the starting point of this arrow...

[uncut vapor]

I loved this theory

Port Vial therory is listed in our BDR/Brick Clique GoogleDoc

[normal lark]

ok this is probably nothing and we're all delulu- but all.the.points.east then point to...north.

[twilit umbra]

ah no sadly it doesn't 😔 in those screenshots i had the map rotated so that east was up cause it made it easier to track where the arrow lead. north in those screenshots is to the left. if that makes sense

[twilit umbra]

does brick clique stand for British clique? guess brickkies would sound kinda dodgy 💀
Is that a public google doc? i'd be interested in having a look if so 👀 would you mind dropping me a link?

[wanton field]

brick clique is exactly this - fans possessed by bricks 😉 Check breach digital remains thread https://discord.com/channels/269657133673349120/1416207975152091176
but be warned....

[uncut vapor]

Brick Clique is the group of us working on the Digital Remains! hehe

[twilit umbra]

ohhh i see! that makes more sense

[wide oar]

Canada festival after All point east announced. So London wont be the last

[fervent patrol]

the canada one is almost exactly a year after releasing breach which is kinda interesting

[twilit umbra]

i'm a lil late to this but yeah i see now 😔 could be worth checking around the canada venue aswell to see if there's anything 👀

[timid marten]

Took me awhile to find this, but I'm pretty sure this video was filmed around the place where All Points East will be... And if that's so, it's 12 years ago, quite possibly could have snagged names from this trip.

https://youtu.be/Q6HsgX8QPZE?si=3cnAl8aifW3DwpIs

[wanton field]

Apart from Bishops Way these places probably wouldn't exist 12 years ago...

[timid marten]

Yeah, I haven't researched it

[twilit umbra]

with the release of the drag path mv i saw someone point this frame out 👀 another instance of an arrow. And considering they've said drag path could be played live, maybe something happens during drag path at APE??