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• Tuesday, October 28th • The Clumsy Lovers – www.clumsylovers.com • Tix $8 @ the door
Smart Kid is the Clumsy Lover’s seventh album, and second for Nettwerk Records. Like its acclaimed predecessor, After the Flood, it was made in collaboration with producer John Webster, who encouraged the band to approach the studio with a more adventurous spirit. The band has long felt at home on any stage, whether in front of 50 raucous patrons at a roadhouse or thousands of music-lovers at a festival or concert hall. But the band used to view the studio as a necessary evil, a domain in which to make audio souvenirs for audiences o take away from Lovers live shows. Those older recordings were reasonably accurate documents of the band’s onstage sound, but they were hardly the sort of artifacts that would help take them to the next level.
“For a long time I as a big proponent of ‘Make sure your CD represents your live show,’ especially for us because we tour so much. And, before After the Flood, 95 percent of our sales were offstage,” explains Jonat. “I’m a late learner, but what works live doesn’t necessarily work in the studio, and vice versa. More than I ever did before, I view them as two separate art forms. You definitely still want it to sound like you, but what bears repeated listening is different from what’s fun to hear in the pub or in the concert hall.”
Age Group: 21+ Venue: Zebra Cocktail Lounge Address: 321 E Main St
Bozeman, MT
Phone: 406 585 8851
Zebra Cocktail Lounge
