[ATTENDED: January 23, 2024] Honey Revenge
I hadn’t heard of Honey Revenge, but before the show I checked out a few songs and really liked them.
Apparently they have a pretty big fan base too, because there were several people who left the front after their set. And one guy in front of me who was dancing in a very elbows-in-your-face kinda way. I was very glad when he pushed further forward.
Honey Revenge has played Philly three times in about a year, once as a headliner at The Foundry, so the Philly love is big.
So Honey Revenge is evidently a two-piece: Devin Papadol (vocals) and Donovan Lloyd (guitar), although there were two other people on stage too–touring musicians Tay Fischer (@witchybassist) who was super fun and jumped off the bass drum at one point (and who will be playing with Jhariah in February) and drummer Matt Arsenault who I feel like I’ve seen play with other people too.
They play grungy 90s rock with great pop hooks.
Papadol is a take-no-shit front woman. She encouraged people to mosh and to crowd surf (it’s not often that people crowd surf for an opener, but they did). She asked who had never crowd surfed before and aid that tonight was the time to do it. And, she threatened, if anyone gets dropped, I will stop the show. It was really fun seeing little kids (with big era protectors) crowd surfing during the songs.
She also insisted that there be a pit AND a conga line.
Lloyd was a great guitarist too. I didn’t really notice the guitar work at first because really, all eyes are on Papadol, but Lloyd pulled out some great sounds and some kicking (but short) solos.
I also really liked their lyrics which were empowering. But also funny. Like a song that is part slacker, part ass kicker
Sure, I could be doing more, but I could be doing lessUsed to going overboard and if I had to take a guessNever been too proud, I’ve always been too loud to ignoreMy mouth’s a messNow being annoying comes with reward and everyone’s impressed
Although one of their most popular songs is “Airhead” as in “damn, I’m such a” so there is definitely a sense of humor in the lyrics.
They were a lot of fun and I would absolutely see them again.
- Seeing Negative (Disappointment) ∞
- Worst Apology ∞
- Recipe for Disaster @
- Favorite Song ∞
- Habitual ∞
- Rerun ∞
- Murphy’s Law ∞
- Are You Impressed? ∞
- Airhead ∞
- Distracted ∞
@ new song 2024
∞ Retrovision (2023)
[from this album, they did not play Fight or Flight, Sensitive, Scapegoat]
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