Half Alive, in support of their new record, Conditions of a Punk, played to a sold-out crowd at the House of Blues on Thursday the 27th.
The night opened with a short, unhinged set by Dev Lemons. Dev bopped around the stage, woo’d, and was generally quirky and weird (in the best way) and sang over a backing track and her drummer Nick, who blasted on the drums on the far corner of the stage.
Tessa Violet, dawned in a pink bodysuit with flowing… wings? And knee-high boots. She was energy personified. Twirling from each side of the stage, shredding guitar, jumping, smiling, singing, you know the normal stuff plus some extras, all to the max. The crowd was erupting.
When Half Alive finally took the stage behind a tarp which they used to create some exciting
shadow play.
The fans were rabid at this point as they eagerly awaited the tarp to fall, revealing the singer, Josh Taylor. The singer at the center with bassist. J. Taylor Johnson, and drummer, Brett Kramer, raised on either side of him.
Throughout the set, the band shifted through seasons and material, focusing on different parts of their discography, and incorporated exciting and intricate additions to their performance with choreography and dancing, light play and shadow, giving the show and the audience the feeling of having attended a much larger and production-centric event.
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