I Just Read About That…

[DID NOT ATTEND: March 19, 2026] Sweet Pill / Heart to Gold / Spaced

I missed Sweet Pill when they surprise opened for Pool Kids at the Ukie Club and since then I’ve been trying to catch them. I missed them two years ago when they played Union Transfer (that show is up on YouTube–see below).  Then they opened for Zeta at the Ukie club–a show I really wanted to go to but couldn’t make.

So this was an album release show for their new record and I was pretty psyched to go.  And then my son came home from college and I had a bunch of other commitments to take care of so I couldn’t make it either.

The funny thing is that my friend’s daughter whom I ran into at a Pool Kids show a few months ago loves Sweet Pill and she was at the show–it would have been crazy to run into her again.

Sweet Pill actually reminds me a lot of Pool Kids–similar impressive guitar work (finger tapping!) and great strong female vocals.  I really want to see them before they get too huge.

It turns out that Sweet Pill cancelled the rest of the tour a few days later for personal reasons.  I hope everything’s okay with them.  And I also hope that when they reschedule the tour, they throw in an other Philly show so I can see them.

Heart to Gold is from Minnesota and they play a similar kind of upbeat sounding punk with big guitars.  I guess they’re calling it high energy emo punk.  Whatever it’s called, I dig it

Spaced is a hardcore band from Buffalo.  They are certainly heavier than the other two bands and probably got the crowd really revved up.  Short songs, loud vocals.  Fun stuff.

I’m definitely bummed to have missed this show.