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| alchemistlounge | Event Date: 10 July 2008 (Single Day Event) |
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ALCHEMIST July, 10 2008 at You Can Be A Wesley 435 South Huntington Avenue, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130 Cost : Always free College and music go together like mac and cheese for the four members of You Can Be A Wesley. Lead singer/guitarist Saara Untracht-Oakner (studying advertising), guitarist Winston Macdonald (biology), bassist Nick Curran (journalism) and drummer Dan Goldberg (communication studies) are all currently juniors at Boston University. On top of being students, this talented group also dedicates a considerable amount of time and energy to cultivating and promoting their cheerful kind-of-pop-kind-of-rock brand of music. You Can Be A Wesley began their in-studio set with “Creatures” which, like all of the other songs they played in the WERS studios, was brand spanking new. After discussing the origins of the band name (which is explored in great detail on the band’s Myspace page http://www.myspace.com/youcanbeawesley), they performed “Kiddie Pool,” which strikes a perfect balance between wistful lyrics and lush instrumentals. The band closed their set with an untitled song, the title of which is apparently in the hands of WERS listeners (again, check out the Myspace). When asked about their favorite place to play in Boston, the band responded enthusiastically as one: “Avalon!...before it closed.” The same question applied to venues outside of the city prompted Nick to recount one of their most unusual road stories. “We played a wicked bro club on Long Island, but we got to stay on LBI for three days and surf. That’s been the best experience, even though the club was…funny. They were having dollar Miller Lite drafts that day and a ten-to-one guy-to-girl ratio.” However, close encounters with bros and bad beers aside, the band seems eager to get out and tour. Although the groups touring has thus far largely been limited to New England (with forays into New York and New Jersey as well), the group is hoping to spend the summer expanding their horizons with planned stops in Philadelphia, North Carolina, and Washington D.C to promote their recently-released EP Feed the Moon, Starve the Sun. Fans of the band would be well-advised to take in as many of these anticipated summer shows as possible, since the band is going on hiatus for a few months this upcoming fall semester due to three of the four members going abroad to such far-flung lands as Ecuador and Australia (one Wesley will, fortunately, remain among us). To soothe the ache of this looming absence, the band is planning to have at least one huge blowout show before they leave. |
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