I Just Read About That…

[ATTENDED: March 22, 2025] Wishy

I Was happy that Wishy opened for Momma.  I knew one or two songs by them and really liked them.

The band came out–a five piece, with the two singer/guitarists Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites.  They harmonize perfectly with each other–both vocally and on guitar.  There’s something very appealing about the two singers going Ah ah ah in harmony on Planet Popstar.  There’s a few different parts in this song so I actually wasn’t sure if they were playing different songs or one long one (it’s only 4 minutes, but is pretty complicated)

Wishy released an EP this year and they played half of it.  That left five songs from last year’s Triple Seven, which is the album t hat I first heard them from.  The (very simple ) guitar riff in Persuasion is wonderful–and when the harmony guitar came in–fantastic.

Love on the Outside is mostly Kevin on guitar, but after a verse, the band kicks in and the harmonies are terrific.  The rest of the band is guitarist Dimitri Morris , bassist Mitch Collins, and drummer Conner Host.  It almost seems like overkill to have three guitarists in the band, but all three do different things to make the sound enormous.

Thew new song Fly has been getting some play of the radio lately and it sounded great, especially the guitar harmonics at the end.  They followed it with Sick Sweet the shoegazey masterpiece that I feel in love with the first time I heard it.  It was fantastic live–they really create the wall of sound (and they’re tight as anything).

About halfway through the set, the folks in Momma came out with shots for them.  It was fun watching them sneak up on the singers.

Nina had Chaser, a slower, softer song that she sang more or less by herself.  Then they returned with the jangly fun of Triple 7.  After one song from their earliest release, the ended with the amazing Spit.  The guitars are loud and crunchy, the riff is old school grunge and the vocal harmonies are fantastic (of course). It’s got a great chorus and when the second half–grungy heaviness galore–kicks in, they just ripped the place apart.

It was a great opening set and a good harbinger for what came next.