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Sweet Pill / Heart to Gold / Spaced (Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA, March 19, 2026) [DID NOT ATTEND]

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[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.

 

 

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Movements / Mannequin Pussy / Softcult / Heart to Gold (The Fillmore, Philadelphia, PA, September 23, 2023) [DID NOT ATTEND]

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[DID NOT ATTEND: September 20, 2023] Movements / Mannequin Pussy / Softcult / Heart to Gold

I actually didn’t know about Movements until Mannequin Pussy announced that they were opening for them on this tour.   I love Mannequin Pussy and am excited to hear their newer songs live.  So I grabbed a ticket–even though I knew I had a ticket to the sold out Death Grips show the same night.

I figured there was a pretty good chance that Death Grips wouldn’t play (they tend to be flaky about tours, but apparently not this one), and maybe I’d get to go to this show which seemed likely to sell out (it hasn’t yet).

Then I discovered that Death Grips doesn’t have an opener and their shows are fairly short (90 minutes or so).  And I realized there was a chance I could still see some of this show (the venues are less than ten minutes apart).  So it all depends on how long Death Grips play for and how late they start.

Then a few days before the show, I decided that I didn’t want to see Death Grips anymore.  After a couple of rough, pushing a shoving shows, I realized that I didn’t want to spend 90 minutes in a crowd at Franklin Music Hall with abrasion and aggression non-stop for 90 minutes while the crowd slam danced all around me and the stage was bathed in red.  Maybe had I not seen Igorrr and Boris this week, I would have been more up for it, but it just felt not fun.

So then I thought maybe I’d go to this show.  But then things were going on at home and I realized that based on when Mannequin Pussy said they were going on (8:55) that Softcult, who I really wanted to see, wouldn’t be playing for very long.  And I didn’t think MP would get a very long set either.  So I just said meh to the whole thing and stayed home. (more…)

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