[ATTENDED: June 4, 2022] Crawlers
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.
So Crawlers, it turns out are an alt-rock/punk band who are pretty darn cool.
We were in front of guitarist Amy Woodall and on the far side was bassist Liv Kettle who had the best look going on–great eye liner and huge kick ass boots.
Lead singer Holly Minto was up front engaging with everyone. She was fun and warm and welcoming and was just a delight. And in the back was Harry Breen smashing up the drum set. They’ve been playing together for a few years now and Minto and Kettle have been friends forever. They have a great stage rapport.
Crawlers had made some waves via TikTok and it was clear that their fan base was young, and they were especially speaking to young women. I tried my best to get out of the way to let the young women have the font, but I also didn’t want to leave me daughter by herself, so we kind of hung out near the front, but not too near.
Minto was high fiving everyone and I so wanted my daughter to get in there, but she was shy about it, and didn’t want to reach out.
The band sounded great. I particularly enjoyed when Minto busted out her own guitar (“I Can’t Drive”) and a trumpet (“So Tired”).
And it was pretty wild when Minto came down onto the floor to sing with everyone surrounding her (sadly not really near us, but I know my daughter was pretty thrilled).
They didn’t have that many songs to play (they only had an EP out at the time). So the show was fiarly short (which actually worked out really well for us as well in terms of getting home at a reasonable hour). But that short show left a huge impression on her!
I also knew that the whole deal was good weird for my daughter. There was no fence between us and the stage. In fact, the stage was only about two feet high. This band that she wanted to see so badly was right there within arms reach. I can’t imagine what that must have been like.
It was even crazier when the show was over and the band was just hanging around waiting to sign things. We got to talk to all of them. They took pictures with us. I even walked over to the stage and asked a roadie for a setlist and they signed it for her. PhilaMOCA will probably be her favorite venue forever. And yes, when Crawlers comes back we’ll see them again.
SETLIST
- MONROE
- Statues
- Feminist Radical Hypocritical Delusional
- Hush
- So Tired
- I Don’t Want It
- I Can’t Drive
- Come Over (Again)
- Fuck Me (I Didn’t Know How to Say)
- Placebo
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