March 1, 2010 8pm
The Summit
2210 Summit St.
(614) 268-9377
$5 adv / $7 door
Ages 18+ - Under 21 pays $2 surcharge at door
A Sunny Day In Glasgow
http://www.asunnydayinglasgow.com
Fronted by identical twin sisters Lauren and Robin Daniels and masterminded by their brother Ben, A Sunny Day in Glasgow emerged in the early 2000’s with synth-laden experimental noise-pop that echoed 1980’s shoegaze acts like the Jesus and Mary Chain. Ben Daniels started making cassette recordings with the help of his friend Ever Nalens years before A Sunny Day in Glasgow got together. Nalens moved to Glasgow from 2002 to 2004 in order to go to art school, and Daniels moved to London about a year later. They started collaborating again after Ben returned in the summer of 2005, but Nalens abandoned the project after a couple months. Daniels continued to write songs, asking his sister Robin to take over the vocals. Lauren was brought in as a vocalist a few months later, and the group started recording tracks in Ben’s West Philadelphia apartment and at their parents’ house in the suburbs. They put some of the tracks together and released them as an EP, called The Sunniest Day Ever, in March 2006. The EP charted at number one on New York’s WNYU, the songs started bouncing around online, and soon enough Pitchfork gave the first track on their EP, “C’mon,” a four-star rating. Indie labels started to pay attention, and the group snagged a record deal with Notenuf Records in October 2006. They recorded their first full-length album, Scribble Mural Comic Journal in 2006 and released it in February of the following year. - ©1992-2008 All Media Guide, LLC
The Acrylics
http://www.myspace.com/theacrylics
Though their band, Standing Nudes, broke up in 2007, musicians and friends Jason Klauber and Molly Shea knew they still wanted to continue to make music together. The two — who’d known each other since their time at Oberlin College, where they met after a mutual friend played some of Shea’s songs to Klauber and formed the first configuration of Standing Nudes — decided to take things in a different direction than what they’d previously done. Drawing inspiration from Fleetwood Mac, Gram Parsons, and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, among others, and calling themselves Acrylics, the two set out writing songs from this era of pop music. Their first recordings happened in Klauber’s basement, also home to then roommate’s Patrick Wimberly’s (from Chairlift) studio. Eventually, three more members (Travis Rosenberg on drums, Jake Aron on bass, and Sam Ubl on drums) were added, and the five-piece began playing shows in their home turf of Brooklyn. It was at one of these, and their second ever, that Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor approached them and asked if they’d like to release music on his nascent label, Terrible Records. After producing their songs at Taylor’s studios, the band released the EP, All of the Fire, in October 2009, around the same time as they played a handful of well-publicized shows at New York’s CMJ Festival. - ©1992-2008 All Media Guide, LLC