Beauty School Dropout

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Somewhere around the second chorus you will realise the entire room is made of people who were fourteen in a very specific year and have decided, tonight, to be that age again on purpose. It is not nostalgia exactly - the band is young and the songs are new - it is more that a certain kind of guitar tone gives permission. Three guys from Los Angeles who got their break opening for bands their own fans' older siblings loved, playing a room that holds six hundred and change on a Tuesday in late November. The Tuesday is the point. Weeknight shows at this size draw the people who actually listen rather than the people who bought tickets because it was Saturday, and the difference is audible from the floor - everybody knows the words, including the deep ones. All ages, which at this venue means the front row is teenagers and the bar is their parents pretending not to enjoy it. Seventh Street, downtown Los Angeles.