Swearing at Motorists/Connections/Winter Makes Sailors @ Tree Bar. Mon. May 13th, 2013

MON MAY 13

@ TREE BAR
887 CHAMBERS RD
COLUMBUS, OH

614.725.0955

SWEARING AT MOTORISTS (Secretly Canadian)
Dayton, OH-based lo-fi pop duo Swearing at Motorists teamed singer/guitarist Dave Doughman and drummer Don Thrasher, the latter a member of local heroes Guided by Voices at their Bee Thousand-era peak. Debuting in 1995 with a self-released, self-titled cassette, Swearing at Motorists returned the following year with an EP, Tuesday's Pretzel Night. The full-length Fear of Low Flying Clouds appeared in 1997, with More Songs from the Mellow Struggle (the band's debut effort for the Secretly Canadian label) and Number Seven Uptown both following two years later. By 2000, founding member Don Thrasher left the band. The Trouble with Sweeney's Joseph Siwinski was brought in to play drums. The Along the Incline Plane EP and the This Flag Signals Goodbye album both followed in 2002. A tour with the Hold Steady as well as an appearance at the annual SXSW conference coincided the release of Last Night Becomes This Morning in 2006.  -Jason Ankeny, Rovi

CONNECTIONS
I don't want to talk about the Ohio water, as in what's in it, as the raison d’être for another instant classic of underground pop to surface to vinyl with Connections’ Private Airplane. This allusion is justifiably thrown up in the hands of well-wishers at a loss for words, yet to say Ohioans are dosed from the tap with a certain knack is to slight what constitutes the substance. Other liquids are more conspicuously involved: blood, beer, whiskey and gasoline - although I wouldn't recommend that order. Songs like "Finally", "Casuals", "Cindy" and "Love St." don't just happen, albeit by the time we hear them it certainly seems like they do; spontaneously, with whatever working degree of immaculacy you uphold. The five members of Connections are not bystanders for a conduit; Kevin Elliott and Andy Hampel of 84 Nash, Adam Elliott of Times New Viking, Dave Capaldi of El Jesus de Magico and 'peach district laureate' Philip Kim have been clocking in for awhile now. Private Airplane is a result of their craft; fifteen paragons of song, each laden with hooks you can't pay for, never mind get, anywhere else. - Elizabeth Murphy (Memphis, TN 2012)

WINTER MAKES SAILORS
Winter Makes Sailors is the car that drives the engine of Sean Gardner, a Columbus,Ohio music fixture who has played up and down the main streets of mid-western cities in a variety of bands for the last decade. He lives a simple life with his wife, he works as a third-grade teacher and spends his weekends teaching guitar and crafting his own music. While "Moving On" carries the full sound of a band, it is in reality much more of a collection of friends coming together to help Sean exhale the music he makes, at times it is reflective of growing up in rural Ohio ("I think My Time Has Come") while others show the best of orchestrated pop music at its finest ("Maybe Someday Soon" & "On The Beach") all carry echoes of spinning vinyl records that support a 4am seduction, such as The Kinks "Something Else", Elliot Smith, Jeepster Records and the oft forgotten Silos. Sean pulls it all with a stellar sense of pop song arrangement. Dig in.

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