[ATTENDED: May 17, 2022] Heaven
There are few bands that I will travel to New York City to see anymore. Supergrass was one of them.
I didn’t care who was opening. I didn’t even care if I saw the opening band. Except that I knew I would be getting there very early to see the band as well as I could.
I had never been to Webster Hall before and didn’t know where the band would be. I walked past the merch (which was totally sold out by the time the show was over) and looked around for any signs of where to go. I was early and people were milling about. Finally I figured out the stage was upstairs (!)
So who was Heaven? Well, back in the 80s there was an Australian heavy metal band named Heaven who released a couple of albums including a cover of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.” It seemed REALLY unlikley that it was them (especially since they officially broke up in 2012). But who was this other Heaven?
They are a New York City based band created by Matt Sumrow and Mikey Jones. I didn’t know this at the time, but it turns out that Mikey Jones played with Swervedriver at the same time that Mick Quinn from Supergrass played bass for Swervedriver (and I saw them tour the U.S. in 2019). So that explains how they know them.
I’ve never not cared about an opening band as much as I didn’t care for this band. Which is so totally unfair to Heaven (although I still think it’s dumb to name your band that if there are at least two other bands with that name). Indeed, listening to their record on bandcamp it’s quite good–a mix of alt-rock and early shoegaze–(Sumrow’s voice has that soft British shoegaze quality).
Of course, they put their newest album out in 2018 and their latest single was 2020, so maybe they aren’t even a band anymore. Who knows.
Anyhow, I was dismissive of them but by the end I though they were really quite good and, had they opened for any other band I would have been really into them I’m sure.
- Colors in the Whites of Your Eyes ≅
- I’ll Let You In [single 2020]
- She’s Closer Than Everyone ♥
- I’m Spinning Around You
- Falling Hearts ♥
- Never the Moment ♥
- Darken Fields ♥
- See My Friends
♥ All Love is Blue (2018)
≅ Telepathic Love (2013)
Leave a Reply