The crowd had been moving up to this point, but this song is when they started grooving.
“Lisa Baby” is monstrous on record, but when performed live, it brought that energy from one corner of the room to the other. I had not been sold on the idea of playing the show at The Basement through the first half of the set, but one song that came about halfway through changed that.
“Down in the Dumps” sounded like Sting found Gary Numan’s synthesizer, and “Spend Your Money” lyrically attacked superficiality.
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The crowd, packed shoulder to shoulder, was practically in a frenzy by the time the four members of Walk the Moon appeared on stage and ripped into their hit “Tightrope.”įrom that point on, the show became a full on assault of bouncy, catchy, jangly guitar-led pop songs. The band is one hit away from being on level ground with their fellow Ohioans, though I would argue that they might not be able to top their own cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic.” And a third, older group of men and women, not quite old enough to be the parents of the high schoolers, also took in the show.įellow Cincinnati band Public opened, boasting a less synthy version of Walk the Moon’s sound - and it pulled it off almost as well as the headliner. A safe distance away stood the college-aged and 20-somethings, the crowd members who didn’t need a fake ID to order a beer. There were huge turnouts from three different generations, as high school kids, mostly girls, ruled the pit. The Basement was as crowded Tuesday night as I have ever seen it, packed to the rafters with an age-diverse crowd. All the best dive bar venues resemble an armpit in some way.) The band members toured across the country and through Europe, along the way becoming alt pop radio mainstays.īooking a Columbus show at the relatively small venue The Basement might have been the band’s way of rediscovering its roots, but there is nothing like quickly selling out a gig to remind you that there are more people who want to hear your music than can cram into the armpit of Lifestyle Communities Pavilion. Walk the Moon’s bubble burst about two years ago, when “Anna Sun” became an unexpected hit and the Ohio-bred band went from waiting for its big break to seeing it unfold before its eyes. Once the bubble bursts, it is nearly impossible to recapture what was there before. We hope that wherever Anna Sun is, she’s using her new-found fame for fame, fortune, and increased academic tenure.Bassist Kevin ray of alt pop band ‘Walk The Moon’ performs at Echo Beach in Toronto on Aug. Walk the Moon have proved that it’s often easier to ask forgiveness than permission, especially when that forgiveness is directly attached to one of the biggest songs of the year. But most importantly, each member's mother is a huge fan of the band. Since Anna Sun's release the band has gone on to open for Weezer and Panic! at the Disco, put out a self-titled album that would place on Billboard's Top 10 Alternative Charts, and appear on most major festival stages and late night talk shows. Since they're a rock band from Ohio, they made sure to apologize to Anna for refusing he request.Īlthough the song was first conceived in 2009 where it was performed on campus, it's given life to Walk the Moon's musical career. However since Walk the Moon are a rock band full of rock stars, they refused. Upon seeing that some of the lyrics were too suggestive, Anna requested that some of them be changed. However, she requested that the band send the lyrics on to her before the song was performed officially. Anna Sun was a professor at the Cincinnati college where the band-mates studied and upon learning that Nicholas, Kevin, Sean, and Eli made a song where her name was the central lyric, Anna was thrilled. Looking back upon their success, the Cincinnati-based indie rock quartet understands how people were able to interpret their song as dealing with a teacher-student affair, but since the reception they received was overwhelmingly positive (and/or wishful) they never felt the need to expressively deny it. "Anna Sun" went on to become one of Esquire's "30 Summer Songs Every Man Should Listen To" was named the song of the summer by Amazon, Seventeen and MTV and its release would forever be marked as the moment that launched the burgeoning careers of all four members of Walk the Moon, their "Made Me" moment. Such is the case of Walk the Moon's breakout 2011 song "Anna Sun" which draws from the feelings that one experiences at the end of a long and illustrious college career before having to go out in the real world and survive.
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