A gig held at Exchange on Monday 22nd July. The event starts at 20:00.
DEADPUNK PROMOTIONS PRESENTS:
INTO IT. OVER IT (Chicago, USA)
7pm doors
£18 adv
INTO IT. OVER IT (Chicago, USA)
The recording project of Chicago-based songwriter Evan Weiss, Into It. Over It. finds the prolific emo-pop veteran of numerous bands (Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start, Labour, Map the Growth, the Funeral Bird, Hiroshima Mon'Amour, and Sleeper Agents, to name a few) striking out on his own. In Into It. Over It., Weiss blends well-crafted pop with a literate, introspective lyrical stance and vocals that acknowledge angst without surrendering to it. Weiss launched Into It. Over It. with 2009's 52 Weeks, and he hit his stride as a composer and arranger with 2013's Intersections and 2016's Standards.
The project came together in 2007 when Weiss made the decision to record a new song every week for an entire year, a stunt that culminated in the release of the double-album 52 Weeks in 2009. Afterwards, his attention turned to writing songs inspired by places, releasing a series of singles before eventually collecting them into one volume on 2011's Twelve Towns. That same year, Into It. Over It. released its first album of proper songs, appropriately titled Proper, through No Sleep Records.
Around this time, Weiss and the similarly prolific Mike Kinsella (of Owen and Joan of Arc, to name just two of his projects) decided to form a band. Bringing in bassist Matthew Frank, they christened themselves Their / They're / There and released two EPs in 2013. Weiss kept working on his own band, and another full-length, Intersections, followed on Triple Crown Records in 2013. In February of 2015 during a break in touring for that record, Weiss and the band's live drummer, Josh Sparks, moved to an isolated cabin in Vermont to write songs for an Internet- and sometimes electricity-free month, and when the tour was over they headed to John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone Studio in San Francisco to record. The resulting album, Standards, was released in March of 2016. After a four-year break, Weiss revived Into It. Over It. for the 2020 album Figure, which he described as a song cycle about acknowledging poor decisions in his past and coming to terms with their consequences.
SWEET PILL (Philidelphia, USA)
Sweet Pill is the Philadelphia quintet of vocalist Zayna Youssef, guitarist Jayce Williams, guitarist Sean McCall, bassist Ryan Cullen, and drummer Chris Kearney. The band originally formed at Rowan University in 2018 before immersing themselves in the Philly music scene, engaging with the local community through projects such as 4333 Collective, a show-promoting venture founded by Williams. Having played their very first show opening for Slaughter Beach, Dog, the group released a series of singles in 2019, the same year they got to perform at SXSW. Their debut LP, the aptly titled Where the Heart Is, has been in the works for a while, but finally arrived last week on Topshelf Records. It’s a riveting collection that skirts the line between emo, 2000s pop punk, and hardcore, invigorated as much by the infectiousness of classic Paramore as it is by the complexity of mathy guitar lines and highly technical flourishes. This stylistic blend not only makes the music more hard-hitting but also emotionally resonant: the record’s many dynamic shifts have a powerful way of mirroring the subject matter of the lyrics, which repeatedly confront cycles of hopelessness and anxiety. Sweet Pill’s response, though, is one of blistering defiance.
Exchange has a small ramp entrance from the street. Our bar and main event space are on the ground floor with level access throughout and we have an accessible toilet. If you need any other info on accessibility, please contact [email protected]
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
INTO IT. OVER IT (Chicago, USA)
7pm doors
£18 adv
INTO IT. OVER IT (Chicago, USA)
The recording project of Chicago-based songwriter Evan Weiss, Into It. Over It. finds the prolific emo-pop veteran of numerous bands (Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start, Labour, Map the Growth, the Funeral Bird, Hiroshima Mon'Amour, and Sleeper Agents, to name a few) striking out on his own. In Into It. Over It., Weiss blends well-crafted pop with a literate, introspective lyrical stance and vocals that acknowledge angst without surrendering to it. Weiss launched Into It. Over It. with 2009's 52 Weeks, and he hit his stride as a composer and arranger with 2013's Intersections and 2016's Standards.
The project came together in 2007 when Weiss made the decision to record a new song every week for an entire year, a stunt that culminated in the release of the double-album 52 Weeks in 2009. Afterwards, his attention turned to writing songs inspired by places, releasing a series of singles before eventually collecting them into one volume on 2011's Twelve Towns. That same year, Into It. Over It. released its first album of proper songs, appropriately titled Proper, through No Sleep Records.
Around this time, Weiss and the similarly prolific Mike Kinsella (of Owen and Joan of Arc, to name just two of his projects) decided to form a band. Bringing in bassist Matthew Frank, they christened themselves Their / They're / There and released two EPs in 2013. Weiss kept working on his own band, and another full-length, Intersections, followed on Triple Crown Records in 2013. In February of 2015 during a break in touring for that record, Weiss and the band's live drummer, Josh Sparks, moved to an isolated cabin in Vermont to write songs for an Internet- and sometimes electricity-free month, and when the tour was over they headed to John Vanderslice's Tiny Telephone Studio in San Francisco to record. The resulting album, Standards, was released in March of 2016. After a four-year break, Weiss revived Into It. Over It. for the 2020 album Figure, which he described as a song cycle about acknowledging poor decisions in his past and coming to terms with their consequences.
SWEET PILL (Philidelphia, USA)
Sweet Pill is the Philadelphia quintet of vocalist Zayna Youssef, guitarist Jayce Williams, guitarist Sean McCall, bassist Ryan Cullen, and drummer Chris Kearney. The band originally formed at Rowan University in 2018 before immersing themselves in the Philly music scene, engaging with the local community through projects such as 4333 Collective, a show-promoting venture founded by Williams. Having played their very first show opening for Slaughter Beach, Dog, the group released a series of singles in 2019, the same year they got to perform at SXSW. Their debut LP, the aptly titled Where the Heart Is, has been in the works for a while, but finally arrived last week on Topshelf Records. It’s a riveting collection that skirts the line between emo, 2000s pop punk, and hardcore, invigorated as much by the infectiousness of classic Paramore as it is by the complexity of mathy guitar lines and highly technical flourishes. This stylistic blend not only makes the music more hard-hitting but also emotionally resonant: the record’s many dynamic shifts have a powerful way of mirroring the subject matter of the lyrics, which repeatedly confront cycles of hopelessness and anxiety. Sweet Pill’s response, though, is one of blistering defiance.
Exchange has a small ramp entrance from the street. Our bar and main event space are on the ground floor with level access throughout and we have an accessible toilet. If you need any other info on accessibility, please contact [email protected]
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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