Girls Out Of The Garage
by jamesisagirlAbout a week ago I took another adventure to visit The Wanton Looks, but this time to a safer neighborhood. The ladies were headlining the Girls Out Of The Garage showcase presented by NoVo Arts at Lincoln Hall. Having only seen them perform in their dimly lit practice space with some burnt out cables, and not quite to their full potential, I was excited to see them in all their glory.
© Gali Firstenberg
© Gali Firstenberg
Leslie Hunt wasn’t what I was expecting. While none of the girls seems really “out of the garage,” Leslie Hunt was the furtherest from this suggestive concert title, yet somehow I doubt I’d be surprised if she told me she had once hung out and rocked in her garage. Her insatiable knack for pop music kept my head bopping and her slower ballads made me want to sit back and relax. Her music wasn’t restricted to pop; while each song remained highly accessible to most anyone who listened to it, she varied from rock to a twangier almost country to downtempo love. Her grasp for intertwining musical genres and pulling them together in a cohesive, likable and catchy manner was more than impressive.
© Gali Firstenberg
Then The Wanton Looks took the stage, and all the leather jackets and punk rock boys came out to play. One might expect an all girl show to have a female heavy crowd, but consistently throughout the night, males dominated the floor. The girls launched right into their set with “Worst Side of Me.” The audience’s feet tapped and looked around for cues to start more aggressively moving around in the available floor space. But it wasn’t until half way through their set that a few boys decided to get things really rolling and began to push, shove and make a mess of the crowd. Their command of the audience made it clear why they were the headlining act; wild and provocative stage presence, undeniably catchy punk rock music, and all an around rush, they took over and made Lincoln Hall theirs for the duration of their set.
Need more girls? Click here for Scotia Widows, The Maybenauts, Leslie Hunt and The Wanton Looks.
Enjoy.
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[...] Yourself blog has a recap of a sweet night with a lot of lady (bands) at Lincoln Hall last week including sets by Scotia Widows, The Maybenauts, Leslie Hunt and The [...]