Plain White T's: A Concert Review

For this report I chose to attend a show that featured the Plain White T’s. I chose this event because I wanted to see what was the difference between a local band and a band that is “popular”. The cool thing about this concert was that The Plain White T’s weren’t touring alone they also came with Beta Play and Matt McAndrew. I’ve never been a big fan of rock but as I researched more about the genre and all of its subgenres I discovered Alternative Rock. The event was held at the popular venue Tricky Falls. Tricky Falls is located in downtown El Paso and it used to be the Alhambra Theater. The outside of the venue is very nice it has a big cat neon sign and it resembles a palace theater. The event started at 8:00 pm but the doors opened at 7:00 pm. In the inside it’s very dark sort of like a movie theater. The only thing that is very visible is where the band instruments are set up. The …show more content…
The band is from Santa Barbara California and consists of four members in the band. The main members of the band are Tommy Cantillon who is the guitarist/singer and Michael Cantillon he plays the piano. Matt Palermo is the drummer, and Mike Dyer plays the bass. They played many tracks, but the one that I enjoyed the most was “Heaven is Under the Sun”. “Heaven is Under the Sun” had such a great piano melody. Michael Cantillon is very talented pianist because he was able to keep the melody going throughout the song. Matt Palermo played the drums very calm, and while playing the drums he had a Tambourine sitting in one of the snare drums and kept hitting it every fourth count. It added an extra sound that the song differently needed. Mike Dryer kept on playing this very nice baseline through the song very nice clean and sharp not to much but no to little. The best part about this partically song they play was the pianist. He had good short solos through out the song and performance. Beta Play was a very good opening act for this