LA natives would rather avoid traffic on Hollywood and Vine. The Pantages and the infamous Walk of Fame attracts a strange taste for Old Hollywood Glamour. The art deco inspired architecture overlooks a neon sign and clock bleeding its name, the muralists on commission, the tents from the unhoused, the tourists exploring sights, and the bodily fluids by both animals and humans nevertheless, the golden age illusion keeps people returning back. Near the intersection, there is another place people flock to where dreams are made.
On a Monday evening, a crowd mingles at a live entertainment venue and nightclub across from Capitol Records called the AVALON & BARDOT. At and around the open bar they snack on mini sliders, chicken empanadas, cheesy flatbread, stuffed zucchini, and are eagerly awaiting for a blond indie-pop trio from San Diego called almost monday. Amidst the artists Jabez, Daisy the Great, and DREAMERS the band gave a nine song mini performance in a showcase Dua Lipa, Doja Cat, Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Florence and The Machine, Hoizer, and The Neighbourhood to name a few have once performed for.
Since 2010 the showcase, School Night, has hosted a music production for up and coming artists at a space in the AVALON called the BARDOT. The first level of the BARDOT is the lounge where a disco ball was above a “School Night” LED light, hand sanitizers were on top of tables with the band’s name “almost monday,” and a photo booth was for the event Hollywood Records was sponsoring. On the main floor is the stage where a drum kit sits over a rustic rug that compliments the fuchsia lit walls, and behind it is the bar with a flameless candle chandelier hanging in the center of its dark circus turret ceiling.
The members of almost monday: Dawson Daugherty, Cole Clisby, and Luke Fabry arrived to a full house. Opening with the single “broken people,” videographers, photographers, and fans moved their way to the front where the three couldn’t be happier to be back performing live. Their first performance back from the pandemic was in 2021 at Lollapalooza after two years without performing in person.Their latest release “sun keeps on shining” currently has over 1.7 million streams on Spotify, and the band is the one to listen and look out for this summer.
Below are almost monday’s summer tour dates supporting The Driver Era in their U.S. dates below.
08.01.22. – Sayreville, NU, Starland Ballroom
08.02.22. – Boston, MA, Roadrunner
08.04.22 – New York, NY, The Rooftop at Pier 17
08.05.22. – Silver Springs, MD, Fillmore
08.06.22. – Philadelphia, PA, The Met
08.08.22. – Columbus, OH, KEMBA Live!
08.12.22. – Chicago, IL, The Riviera Theater
08.13.22. – Cincinnati, OH, Promowest at OVATION
08.14.22. – Atlanta, GA, The Eastern
08.16.22. – Birmingham, AL, Iron City Bham
08.17.22. – New Orleans, LA, Joy Theater
08.19.22. – Austin, TX, ACL Live Moody Theater
08.20.22. – Dallas, TX, Factory at Deep Elem
08.22.22. – Denver, CO, Mission Ballroom
08.23.22. – Salt Lake City, UT, The Union
08.25.22. – San Francisco, CA, The Warfield
08.27.22. – Columbus, OH, Wonderbus*
08.28.22. – Cleveland, OH, Grog Shop^
09.01.22. – Kansas City, MO, The Truman
09.02.22. – St. Louis, MO, The Factory
*Festival
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To attend an event through School Night (21+) tickets can be bought online through DICE, or at the door. The show is live streamed on TWITCH every Monday at 7 P.M., PST and at 10 P.M., EST.
Here are photos from the night taken by our very own, Alyssa Yung.
