True story: I almost peed my pants dancing to Portland’s Southern Belle. I didn’t want to miss any of the young quartet’s set so I waited in vain for the customary power ballad. Every young band has a bad power ballad. Don’t they? I thought so. The two PBR’s in my gut thought so. This clearly NOT being the case, I eventually had to cut away from their spastically lovely pop songs long enough to take care of some ‘bladder bid-ness’. I was thrilled upon my return to find the group still racing with energy, riding surprisingly mature razor-sharp guitar blasts, fantastically frenetic vocal hooks, and melodic bass lines straight through my heart. It’s enviable to be young—it’s even more enviable to be young and really damn good.

JR: I put your cut ’sunnyside’ up on Pampelmoose. it’s downloadable like it is on your myspace.
are ya mad now?

SB: do it! we’re down like a couple of flats.

JR: I’ve heard in several countries age is calculated from the time of conception. If this system were implemented in Portland would you peeps be old enough to play the clubs yet?

SB: play at clubs? yeah, we’ve done a few… i wouldn’t say we’re old enough to drink at one however.

JR: Given all of the house parties you guys have played I bet someone has surely peed their pants during one of your sets. Am I right? If so, what were the circumstances?

SB: at the lime house, i peed just a little bit at the end of ‘downstairs.’ i just get into it, you know? actually, not to long after our set, a couple bros got into it, and started throwing swings at eachother. fighting’s not that cool, but i love the energy and unpredictability of a house show. like, we’re god damn teenagers, you know?

Southern Belle - Sunnyside

Post by Jon Ragel

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