[ATTENDED: October 22, 2021] Total Rubbish
I had planned to check out Tigers Jaw at a small club in New Hope, but the show kept getting cancelled. All I really knew about them was a Tiny Desk Concert they did that I really liked. There were two of them and they wrote catchy poppy punk songs. Their opening act was supposed to be Kayleigh Goldsworthy who is more or less a folk singer. So I assumed that’s what kind of show this would be.
The opening band at Union Transfer was Total Rubbish, a new band based in Philly. They have one EP out called Triple Negative.
The four young women took the stage and proceeded to play some great noisy grungey shoegazey rock. It was hard to tell exactly what the dynamic should be because they weren’t mixed all that great. The vocals were kind of buried (or maybe I was too close to the stage).
The band didn’t do a lot on stage, that clearly wasn’t their thing. They played around seven songs (their entire EP, although not in order) and one or two more. They said hellos and goodbyes and that was that.
I enjoyed everything about them, from their name, to their attitude to their overall sound.
SETLIST
Someone Else’s Dream
Kids
What’s Your Damage
Bad Luck, Baby
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Honey Ryder
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