Over the past few months there have been a sporadic series of events that have made us feel some semblance of normalcy, calming reminders of the Before Times and all the good times we had before the world shit the bed and everything fell apart. Tonight features another one that makes us feel good inside: Letters To Cleo are playing Boston. In fact, we can double up on the This Show Is Tonight billing, as the beloved Boston-born alt-rock band play The Paradise Rock Club across two nights, Friday and Saturday night (November 19 and 20), for their annual homecoming. And this year they are doing it with an incredible opener in Charly Bliss.
What can we expect? “Comfort food,” according to Kay Hanley, who talked about the show in a recent interview with Chaos Control.
“I think really this one is about comfort food,” Hanley tells the site, adding that these Letters To Cleo gigs, which included two appearances in Southern California last week as well as performances in New York City and Connecticut, are the first live music shows she’s attended since before the pandemic.
Hanley continues: “We’re not trying to do anything different. This is really like hitting reset, you know? So for us, we’re leaning into what feels really familiar and comfortable to us. I would say expect to hear all the stuff that you know. I think we actually might throw in one or two of the new ones that we’ve written. There’s a song called ‘Bad Man’ that I really love. We have a couple of other ones, like there’s another song called ‘Aiming and Missing’ we might do.”
Sounds like a good way to get reacquainted with the good times gone by. And feel a little bit normal again.
LETTERS TO CLEO + CHARLY BLISS :: Friday, November 19 and Saturday, November 20 at The Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston, MA :: 7 p.m., 18-plus, $35 :: Advance tickets and venue info :: Show poster by Rockets Are Red
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