Subscribe RSSThey'll be playing Friday at the Lines Lounge, a new restaurant at 512 S. Main St. across from the Civic Media Center. Joining them will be the ubiquitous Michael Claytor and his Friends and Patrick Koch with music starting at 9 p.m.
It's about things we had a local band covering the biggest fish to ever come out of this pond. What separates going to see Heavy Inessential from every other cover band around, you might be asking? Well, for starters they're about as happy to play Petty's songs as they are their own. Joy is a hard thing to afflicted with by on stage, but this band has it. They smile, they laugh, they jump around and they get you to smile, laugh and jump around too. Enough said.
Secondly, you can't tour the hooks. Why would you ever go to a karaoke bar when you can hear these guys rip hit after hit, and take you through chorus after memorable chorus, with you in the passenger's seat? They want you to blow the whistle, it's their job. Getting to sing songs that mean so much to a lot of our childhoods and to this community, it's bound to catch on, because it's the same principle the Shoddy Beatles accomplish: Give people songs they can sing, give people songs in their heart.
