The Mowgli’s and LIGHTS
Pyramid Alehouse Restaurant, Seattle, WA
12.05.15
Occasionally, a party-goer walks by in a garish holiday sweater or a glow-stick-stuffed beach ball flies over your head. Such is the party vibe of Pyramid Brewery’s 18th annual Snow Cap Party at their Seattle Alehouse. But hold your corporate holiday party at a brewery with live music from The Mowgli’s and LIGHTS and people are bound to be having fun. The 20 and 30-stomething crowd sure appeared to be, albeit with the token drunk revelers.
The live music kicked off with LIGHTS (born Valerie Anne Poxleitner) as the small-statured Canadian electro-pop singer took the stage clad in all black, jeans ripped at the knees and a varsity jacket over a snug bodysuit. A short piano intro and LIGHTS broke into “From All Sides,” a bonus track on the deluxe version of her latest full length Little Machines, setting the stage for an energetic performance that spanned both the new album and 2013’s Siberia.
The crowd held their phones up, recording for posterity the way LIGHTS popped down in front of the stage to work the crowd, singing along and cheering her on. The backlit stage was framed by lit-up, color-changing squares of light, with her full band behind them. LIGHT also performed acoustically, strumming her guitar from a solo stool at center stage, which is something she is constantly balancing with her synth-based tracks in a way that makes her both hard to pigeonhole and all the more convincing. Overall, her performance was a great, energetic way to get the crowd pumped up, especially with her single-song encore “Up We Go,” the up tempo hit from her latest album.
Following LIGHTS were SoCal-based free sprits The Mowgli’s. The fog machine churned away while the aforementioned beach balls bounced above the crowd’s heads. The staggering seven-member group mixed up lead vocals, taking turns between upbeat alt rock, emo anthems and the occasional ballad intro, warming up the giant tented space with their posi-rock.
Lights Set List
Intro
From All Sides
Toes
Siberia
Speeding
Muscle Memory
Same Sea
Portal
Last Thing
Running With The Boys
Timing is Everything
Up We Go
Review by Stephanie Dore
Photos by Alex Crick
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