Fri June 20, 2014
Tommy & The High Pilots
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at Former Yoshi's San Francisco Location - Now Closed
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plus Will Weston
Friday, June 20
10:30pm $15
In Southern California, all is not as it seems. And this band, which hails from Santa Barbara, isn’t making the breezy music expected to come out of a seaside town.
Tommy and the High Pilots is a group of friends who have known each other for years and finally formed a band. Tommy Cantillon and his brother Michael (keys) have been playing and singing together their whole lives. Steve Libby (bass) has been a friend for over a decade. And Tommy met Matt Palermo (drums) when their previous bands crossed paths on the road years ago.
When singer/songwriter Tommy started writing the songs he decided to use your life instead of his own. “I’m influenced by and very interested in people and their stories,” Tommy said. “I feel badly, in a way, because every time I talk to people I start getting song ideas. Not that there’s some ulterior motive there. It’s just the way my brain works.”
The album’s first single, “Outta My Head” may be the most SoCal song on the album, in the sense that it came together in Tommy’s head while he was walking on a beach in Santa Barbara, but it’s got an edge to it that stops it from quite fitting into the super laid back SoCal tradition. It’s infectious enough to make audiences pogo and, even when they’ve never heard it before, start singing along to the chorus. It’s followed by, “Devil To Pay,” which Tommy describes as a track he sees in red. It started in a hotel in St. Louis, as an exercise in chord progression inspired by Tom Petty. It turned into an exploration of the desperation and suffocation that comes with the end of a relationship. A few tracks later is “Young and Hungry” which is simultaneously an aggressive battle cry and a heartfelt apology with a nod to Springsteen’s “Born To Run.”
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Friday, June 20
10:30pm $15
In Southern California, all is not as it seems. And this band, which hails from Santa Barbara, isn’t making the breezy music expected to come out of a seaside town.
Tommy and the High Pilots is a group of friends who have known each other for years and finally formed a band. Tommy Cantillon and his brother Michael (keys) have been playing and singing together their whole lives. Steve Libby (bass) has been a friend for over a decade. And Tommy met Matt Palermo (drums) when their previous bands crossed paths on the road years ago.
When singer/songwriter Tommy started writing the songs he decided to use your life instead of his own. “I’m influenced by and very interested in people and their stories,” Tommy said. “I feel badly, in a way, because every time I talk to people I start getting song ideas. Not that there’s some ulterior motive there. It’s just the way my brain works.”
The album’s first single, “Outta My Head” may be the most SoCal song on the album, in the sense that it came together in Tommy’s head while he was walking on a beach in Santa Barbara, but it’s got an edge to it that stops it from quite fitting into the super laid back SoCal tradition. It’s infectious enough to make audiences pogo and, even when they’ve never heard it before, start singing along to the chorus. It’s followed by, “Devil To Pay,” which Tommy describes as a track he sees in red. It started in a hotel in St. Louis, as an exercise in chord progression inspired by Tom Petty. It turned into an exploration of the desperation and suffocation that comes with the end of a relationship. A few tracks later is “Young and Hungry” which is simultaneously an aggressive battle cry and a heartfelt apology with a nod to Springsteen’s “Born To Run.”
plus Will Weston
Friday, June 20
10:30pm $15
In Southern California, all is not as it seems. And this band, which hails from Santa Barbara, isn’t making the breezy music expected to come out of a seaside town.
Tommy and the High Pilots is a group of friends who have known each other for years and finally formed a band. Tommy Cantillon and his brother Michael (keys) have been playing and singing together their whole lives. Steve Libby (bass) has been a friend for over a decade. And Tommy met Matt Palermo (drums) when their previous bands crossed paths on the road years ago.
When singer/songwriter Tommy started writing the songs he decided to use your life instead of his own. “I’m influenced by and very interested in people and their stories,” Tommy said. “I feel badly, in a way, because every time I talk to people I start getting song ideas. Not that there’s some ulterior motive there. It’s just the way my brain works.”
The album’s first single, “Outta My Head” may be the most SoCal song on the album, in the sense that it came together in Tommy’s head while he was walking on a beach in Santa Barbara, but it’s got an edge to it that stops it from quite fitting into the super laid back SoCal tradition. It’s infectious enough to make audiences pogo and, even when they’ve never heard it before, start singing along to the chorus. It’s followed by, “Devil To Pay,” which Tommy describes as a track he sees in red. It started in a hotel in St. Louis, as an exercise in chord progression inspired by Tom Petty. It turned into an exploration of the desperation and suffocation that comes with the end of a relationship. A few tracks later is “Young and Hungry” which is simultaneously an aggressive battle cry and a heartfelt apology with a nod to Springsteen’s “Born To Run.”
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Friday, June 20
10:30pm $15
In Southern California, all is not as it seems. And this band, which hails from Santa Barbara, isn’t making the breezy music expected to come out of a seaside town.
Tommy and the High Pilots is a group of friends who have known each other for years and finally formed a band. Tommy Cantillon and his brother Michael (keys) have been playing and singing together their whole lives. Steve Libby (bass) has been a friend for over a decade. And Tommy met Matt Palermo (drums) when their previous bands crossed paths on the road years ago.
When singer/songwriter Tommy started writing the songs he decided to use your life instead of his own. “I’m influenced by and very interested in people and their stories,” Tommy said. “I feel badly, in a way, because every time I talk to people I start getting song ideas. Not that there’s some ulterior motive there. It’s just the way my brain works.”
The album’s first single, “Outta My Head” may be the most SoCal song on the album, in the sense that it came together in Tommy’s head while he was walking on a beach in Santa Barbara, but it’s got an edge to it that stops it from quite fitting into the super laid back SoCal tradition. It’s infectious enough to make audiences pogo and, even when they’ve never heard it before, start singing along to the chorus. It’s followed by, “Devil To Pay,” which Tommy describes as a track he sees in red. It started in a hotel in St. Louis, as an exercise in chord progression inspired by Tom Petty. It turned into an exploration of the desperation and suffocation that comes with the end of a relationship. A few tracks later is “Young and Hungry” which is simultaneously an aggressive battle cry and a heartfelt apology with a nod to Springsteen’s “Born To Run.”
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