Johnny Brenda's presents
Arrah and the Ferns
You Won't
Former Belle
Fri, August 10, 2012
Doors: 8:15 pm / Show: 9:15 pm
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Arrah and the Ferns - (Set time: 11:15 PM)
Led by frontwoman Arrah Fisher, The Philadelphia based Arrah and the Ferns meld many sounds of folk, country, blues, indie-rock, and pop. Fisher's unique voice guides listeners into a world of emotion with a backdrop of various instrumentation such as dueling guitars, wurlitzer, and banjolin. Their sound is not easily defined as their direction has changed a number of times since their inception in 2005. Their third album, a 6-song EP titled Soldier Ghost, was released digitally on 10/14/2011.
You Won't - (Set time: 10:15 PM)
Massachusetts natives Josh Arnoudse and Raky Sastri have been making things together since 1999, when they engaged in horrendously reckless swordplay during a high school production of "My Favorite Year." From 2003 to 2008 they conspired to produce a series of strange and little-seen movies while Josh attended college in Western Massachusetts and Raky gigged around NYC with a number of different bands. During this period of geographical separation they began trading home recordings of their original songs via email and formulating vague and grandiose plans to start a band together some day.
You Won't was born in late 2010, when the two friends willfully marooned themselves in the woods of Eastern Massachusetts (for the second and third time, respectively) to record a number of Josh's songs. They emerged like baby bears in the spring of 2011 and spent the next several months touring the east coast and playing regularly in Boston and NYC as music blogs including Spinner, I Guess I'm Floating, and Pretty Much Amazing began to take note of their distinctively melodic musical stylings. Their full-length debut, Skeptic Goodbye, was released on Old Flame Records on February 14, 2012.
You Won't was born in late 2010, when the two friends willfully marooned themselves in the woods of Eastern Massachusetts (for the second and third time, respectively) to record a number of Josh's songs. They emerged like baby bears in the spring of 2011 and spent the next several months touring the east coast and playing regularly in Boston and NYC as music blogs including Spinner, I Guess I'm Floating, and Pretty Much Amazing began to take note of their distinctively melodic musical stylings. Their full-length debut, Skeptic Goodbye, was released on Old Flame Records on February 14, 2012.
Former Belle - (Set time: 9:15 PM)
Former Belle started in a basement in the outskirts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In a weeping willow of angry songs about being in your teens and twenties, being completely confused and miserable and having no idea what to do next, the 'Sounds From the Ground' EP was written and performed throughout the winter and summer months of 2011.
Being that angry kid with an acoustic guitar, Bruno Joseph collected a group of close friends, one-by-one joining the efforts of the project and eventually becoming: 'Former Belle'.
Together, Bruno, Patrick Schneider, Jaime Balinski, Tim Bostwick, and later Kyle Sheva, had come together week after week putting together skin over the skeletons they've created in the basement and progressively locking in a live show that portrayed the inner-struggles and peaceful leaves that fell from the Sounds From the Ground EP.
After months of time in the studio with close friends and producers, Ed Myers, Scott Minner, and Christopher Radwanksi, Belle was working their way across Philly/NY/DC venues promoting not only the release of their debut EP, but their project as a whole.
Sharing the stage with acts such as: Colour Revolt, Fences, Bird Call, Johanna and the Dusty Floor, Drunk Up Buttercup, Peasant, American Babies, Mason Porter, and many other friends both new and close.
At the close of summer 2011, Bruno packed up the band's conversion van and moved to Boston, MA to explore and expand his own mind as an individual and also as a completely lost human being. It wasn't as much an escape as it was an attempt to learn what it was that made him tick and push the envelope of moving to a brand new place, not knowing anyone, and seeing if he had the heart to exist and mentally cleanse his busy head.
Bruno is in a lovely apartment outside downtown Boston, working on demos for the newest Former Belle release, 'Cathedral' expected to be released sometime next year.
Keep your chins up and your hearts open. It's a crazy world out there, but we're all in this together.
xo.
Being that angry kid with an acoustic guitar, Bruno Joseph collected a group of close friends, one-by-one joining the efforts of the project and eventually becoming: 'Former Belle'.
Together, Bruno, Patrick Schneider, Jaime Balinski, Tim Bostwick, and later Kyle Sheva, had come together week after week putting together skin over the skeletons they've created in the basement and progressively locking in a live show that portrayed the inner-struggles and peaceful leaves that fell from the Sounds From the Ground EP.
After months of time in the studio with close friends and producers, Ed Myers, Scott Minner, and Christopher Radwanksi, Belle was working their way across Philly/NY/DC venues promoting not only the release of their debut EP, but their project as a whole.
Sharing the stage with acts such as: Colour Revolt, Fences, Bird Call, Johanna and the Dusty Floor, Drunk Up Buttercup, Peasant, American Babies, Mason Porter, and many other friends both new and close.
At the close of summer 2011, Bruno packed up the band's conversion van and moved to Boston, MA to explore and expand his own mind as an individual and also as a completely lost human being. It wasn't as much an escape as it was an attempt to learn what it was that made him tick and push the envelope of moving to a brand new place, not knowing anyone, and seeing if he had the heart to exist and mentally cleanse his busy head.
Bruno is in a lovely apartment outside downtown Boston, working on demos for the newest Former Belle release, 'Cathedral' expected to be released sometime next year.
Keep your chins up and your hearts open. It's a crazy world out there, but we're all in this together.
xo.
Venue Information:
Johnny Brenda's
1201 N. Frankford Ave
Philadelphia, PA, 19125
http://www.johnnybrendas.com/
Johnny Brenda's
1201 N. Frankford Ave
Philadelphia, PA, 19125
http://www.johnnybrendas.com/
