The New Thursday
(t-t)b phone home at Silhouette Lounge on Wednesday, 17 April 2024.
Sound Advice and Will Tell Aim open the triple stack bill.
If you ran the numbers, you’d probably find out that the Silhouette Lounge gets more traffic on a Wednesday night than a Monday. For music, for anything, on average.
No big surprise. Monday’s like the hangover of the weekend. If you got up to anything during the weekend, most likely you want to take it easy at the start of the week.
Here’s the ‘but.’ But Monday is a popular night off for all the people who work in the service industry. Whoever was serving your beer, or bussing your table, and cleaning up after whatever bits and scraps of your weekend fun. If they get a day off, and they better, it’s as likely to be Monday as anything.
Wednesdays, not so much. Hump Day has its own allure, though, for the types who aren’t satisfied with Thursday being the new Friday. Feel the Hump Nights magic at the Sil with (t-t)b, Will Tell Aim, and Sound Advice.
Time’s a flat circle, in any event. How’s that four day work week coming…
Or is it only for rich people?
The solo drums, guitar, keyboard mashup that is Will Tell Aim. Hump Day News has covered a few WTA shows lately. Here’s something we haven’t seen before: a kind of electro hip hop thing, with the artist handling the mic over laptop beats. Kind of an emo turn to the flow, but we’re not talking Lil Peep (whose real name was Gustav Elijah Åhr, exotic, RIP) here.
The five-piece Sound Advice was a lot more vocally driven than you usually see for bands in the backroom at the Sil. It’s just not the musical tendency of the bands that get booked there. Not sure why.
But the “groove rock band out of Boston” was putting the vocals on a pedestal, giving the lead vocalist plenty of room to maneuver in songs that were a little poppy, a little rocky, and, why not, a little groovy.
You get the impression that this is the kind of creative ensemble where everyone trades around the songwriting duties. You end up with a very diverse setlist, and the vocalist laying down a patina of uniformity over the proceedings.
(t-t)b stands for Tiny Telephone Boys? No telephones in sight. But there was some machinery that looked like a modified Nintendo console. All the better to churn out the chiptune. Were the 8-bit additions a live part of the mix or prerecorded. Not sure, with three band members, the Boys don’t have too many hands to spare after the guitar, bass, and drums got their due. The setlist included a slew of new songs.