Wednesdayw/ Babehoven
Monday, July 1
Doors 7pm / Show 8pm
All ages / Standing
$25 Member / $27 General Admission Advance / $30 GA Day of show
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A Wednesday song is a quilt. A short story collection, a half-memory, a patchwork of portraits of the American south, disparate moments that somehow make sense as a whole.
Rat Saw God is an album about riding a bike down a suburban stretch in Greensboro while listening to My Bloody Valentine for the first time on an iPod Nano, past a creek that runs through the neighborhood riddled with broken glass bottles and condoms, a front yard filled with broken and rusted car parts, a lonely and dilapidated house reclaimed by kudzu. Four Lokos and rodeo clowns and a kid who burns down a corn field. Roadside monuments, church marquees, poppers and vodka in a plastic water bottle, the shit you get away with at Jewish summer camp, strange sentimental family heirlooms at the thrift stores. The way the South hums alive all night in the summers and into fall, the sound of high school football games, the halo effect from the lights polluting the darkness. It's not really bright enough to see in front of you, but in that stretch of inky void — somehow — you see everything.
But the thing about Rat Saw God — and about any Wednesday song, really — is you don't necessarily even need all the references to get it, the weirdly specific elation of a song that really hits. Yeah, it's all in the details — how fucked up you got or get, how you break a heart, how you fall in love, how you make yourself and others feel seen — but it's mostly the way those tiny moments add up into a song or album or a person.
Babehoven
Babehoven is a band fronted by songwriter Maya Bon with collaborator Ryan Albert in Hudson, NY. Their homespun indie rock displays Bon's emotionally incisive approach to songwriting that draws just as much power from abstract poetry as specific, personal vignettes. Bon has built a solid partnership with Albert over the last few years, releasing their first full-length record 'Light Moving Time' and several EPs together since 2018. The prolific duo has spent much of the past year on the road, supporting acts like Slow Pulp, Indigo de Souza, Skullcrusher, Good Morning, MJ Lenderman, Horse Jumper Of Love, Jess Williamson and more at home and nationwide.
Thank you to our year-round Lead Sponsors: AC Hotel Portsmouth, MacEdge, and Raka.
Event Venue
3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St,Portsmouth,NH,United States
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