STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO at Electric Factory - Philadelphia PA (10/18)
Sunday October 18th, 2015
Electric Factory
421 N. 7th Street
Philadelphia PA 19123
ALL AGES I Doors 7:00PM I Show 8:00PM
Tickets ON SALE Friday 6/5 at 10AM!
Tickets: bit.ly/StreetLight_Tix
◊ Streetlight Manifesto ◊
www.streetlightmanifesto.com
www.facebook.com/SManifesto
www.twitter.com/smanifesto
The New Jersey ska-punk outfit Streetlight Manifesto grew out of two similar late-'90s groups from the region, One Cool G...
STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO at Electric Factory - Philadelphia PA (10/18)
Sunday October 18th, 2015
Electric Factory
421 N. 7th Street
Philadelphia PA 19123
ALL AGES I Doors 7:00PM I Show 8:00PM
Tickets ON SALE Friday 6/5 at 10AM!
Tickets: bit.ly/StreetLight_Tix
◊ Streetlight Manifesto ◊
www.streetlightmanifesto.com
www.facebook.com/SManifesto
www.twitter.com/smanifesto
The New Jersey ska-punk outfit Streetlight Manifesto grew out of two similar late-'90s groups from the region, One Cool Guy and Catch-22. Delivering a brassy, upbeat brand of third wave ska -- complete with punk-styled melodies courtesy of vocalist Tomas Kalnoky -- the band made its debut in 2003 with Everything Goes Numb. Two years of touring followed as Streetlight Manifesto played countless shows alongside Whole Wheat Bread, Mu330, Bedouin Soundclash, and Gym Class Heroes. However, personnel changes and equipment theft proved to be frequent setbacks. In October 2005, the band was robbed of nearly $80,000 worth of equipment and possessions from its van, only to suffer another robbery while on tour in Europe the very next month. Streetlight Manifesto ended 2005 by touring alongside the Tossers on the brief (and appropriately titled) Please Stop Robbing Us Tour.
Keasbey Nights, a re-recorded version of the 1998 Catch-22 album, was released in March 2006, and the band spent the summer opening for Reel Big Fish and MxPx on a national co-headlining tour. The group continued to tour with Reel Big Fish for much of the remaining year, as well as a large chunk of 2007. Frequent concert dates didn't preclude Streetlight Manifesto from returning to the studio, however, and the band released the full-length album Somewhere in the Between in November 2007. For 99 Songs of Revolution, Vol. 1, the seven-piece took a break from writing new material and compiled an album of ska versions of contemporary pop covers. Victory Records released it as the first in a series in March of 2010. Streetlight Manifesto returned with new material in 2013 with their oft pushed-back fifth record, The Hands That Thieve, an album that would prove to be their last for Victory. Seven guys, seven different musical backgrounds, seven different personalities, one band, one unique and unmistakable voice. Formed four years ago in New Jersey as an ad hoc group intended to put out one album and disappear, one thing lead to another and within a few months of their debut release, Everything Goes Numb, Streetlight Manifesto were officially a full time touring band, traveling the world, spreading their infectious and energetic tunes to all who would listen. One part rock, one part ska, with influences from latin, klezmer, folk, world, funk, jazz and classical thrown in, the band redefined what most people expected from a “ska” band. Three albums later, and after countless worldwide tours, the guys are still at it, still performing live to sold out shows filled with sweat drenched fans, all dancing and singing along at the top of their lungs. And the Streetlight boys wouldn’t have it any other way.
◊ Dan Potthast ◊
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Dan Potthast is best known for his work with MU330, but his four solo albums might be his best work: Eyeballs (1999), Sweets and Meats (2002), Eat The Planet (2008) and Around the World (2010).
Dan has been the lead singer/frontman for MU330 since the band first started playing shows in 1988. Dan’s songs have been used in numerous TV shows and movies, including Nip Tuck, The Brendan Leonard Show, and the German films “Pas De Deux” and “Dopplepack. ” With MU330, he has played over 1800 shows all around the world, everywhere from the United States (48 states, including Hawaii and Alaska), Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, all over the UK and Europe, Russia, Japan, and even Korea. In addition to touring with MU330, Dan has done a lot of touring and recording of his solo work as well, racking up tours all over the US, UK and Europe with just his guitar and boxes of CDs. Dan has released two solo albums on Asian Man Records. The first, “Eyeballs,” is a sparsely arranged album that features mainly acoustic guitar and vocals with a few other instruments ocassionally thrown in here and there.
◊ Sycamore Smith ◊
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Sycamore Smith is the stage name of Marc Smith, a musician from Marquette, Michigan. Smith, formerly of The Muldoons, has toured the United States with his uniquely comic brand of folk music, complete with derby hat, guitar, and kazoo.
Though little known outside of the Michigan area, his popularity is slowly growing, in most part due to his excellent website and some loyal fans spreading the word. Sycamore is an accomplished lyricist, and his songs often reflect his love of his home area and his atheism (Hokum All Ye Faithful).
…Well, that’s one way of looking at it. Sycamore, on the other hand, considers himself more of an “agnostic,” when he considers himself at all. Also—his feelings toward his home area are ambivalent at best, downright negative at worst. It should also be noted that Sycamore has a terrible habit of writing about himself in the third person on the internet, which is just so sad…