Last week, I didn’t get around to writing about the Growlers Monday Night residency at the Echo, so I’m going to try and combine my thoughts into one giant post. The photos above are from August 18th aka the Best Gig the Growlers Have Done Yet.
Here’s some tips, tips for any future Growlers show that you may want to go to. And by may want to go, I mean once you see these guys you’re gonna need to see them once a week for the rest of your life or your internal organs will fail.
1. Where there be Growlers, there be girls. God, the Growlers crowds are ridiculous. I say this with love, because the music is worth braving the crowd for, but by going to a show, you acknowledge the existence of a crowd consisting of only a) girls who think they are really cute b) girls who think they dance really well c) ridiculously drunk girls d) boys who need to push to the front and dance in front of short people e) people who want to dance and wave their arms like windmills. These are the kind of people that populate the first three rows of people at a Growlers gig. You have been warned.
2. Get ready to get groovy. Taking the aforementioned group of lameasses and groupies that follow the Growlers, you need to know that when you see them, you will dance. You will. There’s just no question about it. They’ve got such a way with melody which is like, the most generic thing that one could say about music… But they’re just so entrancing it’s like they’re puppet masters and the audience is just at their mercy. There’s nothing about their Lousiana Blues meets Costa Mesa Surf Rock that I don’t love.
3. Don’t be put off by homelessness. When the Growlers are offstage, it wouldn’t be much of a miss if one thought they were homeless. They look kind of like people you’d see on Venice Beach, doing crazy things. But when they get up on stage, the whole California surfer, Lords of Dogtown, Z-Boys look solidifies what they create with the music. It’s the X-Factor, The California Cool, “it”, whatever have you – but the Growlers have got it.
I can only really sum this up in one way: Listen to the Growlers, you will love them. Everyone does.
If you’d like to see more photos of the Growlers, just visit my flickr.
mp3 | KILLED MY WOMAN by the GROWLERS
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