Seattle Subsonic

Person L @ El Corazón

March 25th, 2010

I’m getting too old for this shit. That is, going to all ages shows. Other than being one of the “older” people in the room (and seemingly the only big PersonL fan) I sure hadn’t heard of any of the other openers for the night. Not that the opening acts were any good – nor was the headliner for that matter.
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The night opened with Deas Vail. A band that seemed to be a combo of sad rock and piano ballads. If you were a 13-17 year old girl I think you would love this band. They were followed by PersonL (more on their set in a sec). Next up was the unfortunately named I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business. Mostly playing sad acoustic songs with vocals that were being echoed for no good reason. The headliner was Copeland… I didn’t stay for them. I did however pay the $17 admission fee for one amazing 3-min set from PersonL.

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PersonL had the most energy of any band of the night. They played strong and hard through songs from their first album Initial and sprinkling a few new ones in as well. They really took the crowd by surprise. Some of their songs are set against some great blues guitar riffs. With their two drummers hammering out the beats the songs just keep moving along. They used their time wisely: with stops only for seconds to tune, they kept rocking for their entire set. Talking with the band after the show they were “excited to be out on tour again playing these songs they love to new fans”.  Hopefully we will see them doing a headlining tour this summer.