Zerbin

This extremely late post is my fault. Who decided to put the "Save post" button so close to the "Pulish post" buttom? Anyhow, enjoy!

Last night I was able to catch Sonic's most recent band of the month for October, Zerbin. The band is made up of 5 members and took to the stage at about 11pm. Even though it was a Wednesday, I thought that the Pawnshop would eventually fill out as it usually does when the night carries on. This time however the venue stayed relatively..."spacious". Only the front of the stage had audience memebrs, while the back only had the empty booths and bartenders hanging around.

The band was actually good live. I didn't mean for that to come out as condescening, but...it did.... And that's only because there's no other way to put it; I like their radio single quite a bit, but thought that that would be it. For me they were reminiscient of Coldplay, while my concert buddy thought they were borderline Snow Patrol-clones. For me it's hard to say I really like a band when I can so easily compare them to others. Even though they did in fact play a really good set, and the singer, Jason Zerbin (yup, you guessed it, the band is named after him), has a great vocal range, I just didn't "feel" anything. I wouldn't be opposed to seeing them or listening to their album once more for a clearer idea, but I just wasn't drawn into it as much as I have been with other local acts. But then again my concert buddy just near fell in love when he saw them perform, so between the two of us there was no middle ground. Make your own decision! Since the band is homegrown they play around the city quite often. Right now they just set off for the Eastern side of the country, but I would definitely suggest checking them out when they set their sights back home!