Smokey Brights + Seaside Tryst + Guidon Bear

CapCity Presents:

Smokey Brights + Seaside Tryst + Guidon Bear

Wild Child Taps

All Ages Event

$14 Advance

$18 DOS

Doors at 7pm

Show at 7:30pm

LINEUP:

Smokey Brights

Smokey Brights have been steadily growing out of the mossy Pacific Northwest city of Seattle for over a decade. The band, formed by friends working together at a pizza restaurant, has roots in Seattle’s DIY punk, songwriter, and psych scenes. Through the group’s four LP and three EP releases, you can hear Smokey Brights’ sonic branches stretching through 70’s prog, synthy new wave bops, fuzzy 90’s anthems, and intimate indie storytelling. You can also trace the lives and romance of songwriters Ryan Devlin and Kim West who married a few years after the formation of the band. The couple’s entangled approach to songwriting and melody has yielded a remarkable amount of original, genre bending music. Nick Krivchenia’s steady, stylish drumming is the backbone of the Smokeys’ sound, while bassist Luke Rägnar adds low end bounce as well as a third harmony to Ryan and Kim’s melodies. The band’s music has been featured in film, television, video games, and podcasts. They’ved toured throughout the US as well as the UK and mainland Europe. Their most recent releases, 2023’s Broken Too EP and Levitator LP, both landed on iconic radio station KEXP’s top 90.3 records of the year.

https://smokeybrights.bandcamp...

Seaside Tryst

Brewing below the blanket of the Pacific Northwest sky, Seaside Tryst is bringing a colorful pastiche to moody indie dance music.

Raised in a place called Horsepasture, Virginia, Avery Kanode was inundated with the twangy syncopations of traveling Southern Baptist revival tours from birth. Yearning to clap on the 2s and 4s, he would seize any opportunity to soak in the secular soundtracks heard at chili cook-offs, backwoods pageants and dance recitals.

There had to be a brave wide world outside the Blue Ridge Mountains, so he found himself in the Emerald City of Seattle, working sweaty dance parties to fund his early transition and collecting friends along the way to form the garage pop sensation: Seaside Tryst.

Seaside Tryst is more than a dramatic way of saying “sex on the beach”. Infectious melodies, angular guitars and pulsating synths keep crowds moving at live shows in goth clubs and gay bars alike.

Avery’s voice floats atop a dusky cocktail of synth-pop and post-punk with tales of small-town escape and queer heartbreak. Songs set sail on synthesizers and samples controlled by Frankie Champagne. Their airy back-up vocals provide a soft landing for lyrical gut-punches. Ryan Pangilinan’s raw driving bass equally calls upon his days in the PNW hardcore scene as his disco vinyl gigs. The shy, handsome strongman in the back propelling the band with the dynamism that only live drums can provide is Jesse Peoples.

This foursome is a tight-knit chosen family woven together by a mutual interest in glittery pop, men in eyeliner and taking care of one another.

The band is excited to announce the release of their first full-length record Different Places, a modern new wave gem produced by Jenn Champion coming out on Cruisin Records this fall. The album is a milestone for the band, who have otherwise self-released EPs and online singles. Different Places is a testament to the magic of queer collaboration – with Jenn Champion’s keen ear and indispensable guidance, these gay pop-obsessives have crafted an emotional, sonically captivating record.

https://seasidetryst.bandcamp....

Guidon Bear

https://guidonbear.bandcamp.co...