Results tagged “cutcopy”

              

The greatest trick the best bands ever pull is convincing every audience that they're their favorites. It's no easy feat. The road is monotonous, every club starts to look the same, one sea of bobbing heads becomes indistinguishable from the next. Generally, when you say you're just thrilled to be here in Washington, D.C. tonight, we usually know that you're following a routine, a script, and hoping that you filled in the blank with the right city. But when a band gets it right, either through Oscar-worthy acting, or just good old-fashioned sincerity, the crowd is in their pocket.

          

It was an Australian electronic spectacular on Friday at the 9:30 Club, with Melbourne's Cut Copy and Sydney's The Presets taking the stage, along with Heartbreak from London. The crowd was sold out and in a dancing mood, and the bands served them well.

     

On the list of the most widely circulated myths about Washington, sandwiched in between "they all work for the government" and "it's such a transient city" is this little mistruth: "no one in D.C. knows how to have a good time". Now, we could (and probably will) spend all week arguing this point in the comments, but at the end of the day, that surely isn't going to convince anyone outside of D.C. that we know how to have fun -- if anything, just the opposite. Luckily, there are folks among us who are doing their part as goodwill ambassadors for the District, by disabusing out-of-towners of their erroneous notions in person. Don't believe us? Well, you should have been at the Black Cat on Thursday night, when a sold-out crowd showed a few touring bands that there's more to this town than what you see on C-SPAN.