Thu, Nov 5
All Season Brewing Battle of the Bands
A battle of the bands is the most honest room in music because the audience is also the stake. Every act on the bill has spent two weeks telling everybody they know to turn up, so the crowd arrives in distinct clumps that cheer with embarrassing intensity for their friends and then stand with folded arms for everybody else. By the third band that tribalism starts dissolving, usually because somebody good turns up who nobody came for. That is the whole pleasure of it. You are watching a few hundred people reluctantly agree on something in real time, with real stakes, and the bands know exactly how much is riding on it. Nobody is coasting. Go on purpose rather than by accident, pick a side early on no evidence whatsoever, and be prepared to change your mind in public.
A battle of the bands is the most honest room in music because the audience is also the stake. Every act on the bill has spent two weeks telling everybody they know to turn up, so the crowd arrives in distinct clumps that cheer with embarrassing intensity for their friends and then stand with folded arms for everybody else. By the third band that tribalism starts dissolving, usually because somebody good turns up who nobody came for. That is the whole pleasure of it. You are watching a few hundred people reluctantly agree on something in real time, with real stakes, and the bands know exactly how much is riding on it. Nobody is coasting. Go on purpose rather than by accident, pick a side early on no evidence whatsoever, and be prepared to change your mind in public.
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A battle of the bands is the most honest room in music because the audience is also the stake. Every act on the bill has spent two weeks telling everybody they know to turn up, so the crowd arrives in distinct clumps that cheer with embarrassing intensity for their friends and then stand with folded arms for everybody else. By the third band that tribalism starts dissolving, usually because somebody good turns up who nobody came for. That is the whole pleasure of it. You are watching a few hundred people reluctantly agree on something in real time, with real stakes, and the bands know exactly how much is riding on it. Nobody is coasting. Go on purpose rather than by accident, pick a side early on no evidence whatsoever, and be prepared to change your mind in public.
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