[Portland OR] I’m not squeamish about
dirty or rough clubs but this was just disrespectful to music – and I should
have known with the club actually billing themselves as “low-budget.” A curtain
divided the drinking crowd from the listening crowd (Oregon’s got weird rules).
You paid your cover and found yourself stuck where you paid because the
listening side was jam-packed, with all of 30 people, 30 low-brow cheap-ass
people… and not in a cute, scenester, or sexy way. The band was at ground level
and essentially interspersed in the crowd. And you can imagine what this all
did for the sound. I decided a week or so ago I was going to work through the
Portland clubs A to Z (more or less – this one’s about to close, for obvious
reasons) so these trials satisfied me – rewards come to those who barrel
through the brambles. Power pop and 70s punk with a lot of proggy guitar.
Plimsouls crossed with Weezer. One of the band member’s (from my limited
viewpoint) had a man bun stuffed through the back of his ballcap. Most
troubling part was the woman walking around with a “Gentrification is weird”
t-shirt on – was she for gentrification to keep Portland weird? Was she being
ironic? Was she referencing the gentrification going on in that very club? Despite
all that was troubling, I liked this band a lot.
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