[ATTENDED: June 4, 2022] Thus Love
Out of the blue one day my daughter begged me to get her tickets to see a band I had never heard of. They were called Crawlers from the UK. They were touring the US for the first time and could she please please please go to a club called PhilaMOCA.
Now I happened to love PhilaMOCA. When they needed fundraising I supported them and looked forward to them reopening their doors. I hadn’t been back since they reopened, so I was pretty interested to see the place again. But I was even more interested to check out this band and see what had my daughter so interested.
PhilaMOCA has a supersmall capacity so I grabbed tickets for us immediately assuming the show would sell out.
But when we arrived (the renovations look great, even if it means the capacity is even smaller now), there was hardly anyone there.
She was nervous to get right up front (understandable), but when the opening band came on, I told her we had to get kind close so that no tall people obscured our view of Crawlers for her.
Thus Love came on stage and there were three of them: guitar, bass and drums.
They played a fantastic 90s era style minimal alt rock/punk and the lead singer had an uncanny resemblance both physically and vocally to Peter Murphy.
The guitarist Echo Mars (She/Her) does some great moves with some wild solos and ringing guitars sounds while the basisst Sophia DiMatteo (They/Them) kept the low end. And their drummer Lu Racine (He/They) smacked the crap out of the drums while having the best hair.
They were very funny with excellent stage presence. And after the show, they hung around and my daughter met them. They were incredibly nice to her and signed her shirt and were quite delightful to talk to.
UPDATE: As of the time of the show they didn’t have any music anywhere yet, but as of October 2022, they have released their debut on vinyl and CD and you can stream it on bandcamp.
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