This incredibly large band took on the small stage at the Someday Lounge Saturday playing their second show of the night for their album release "Hunger and Thirst". The band opened with a video that captured the size of the band while playing "Starting Over Bad Habits" from their new album. The start of the show was slow with the presentation of the video and the band getting into a huddle before playing. Immediately after breaking the band huddle, Typhoon broke out, from what I could count the 12 person band across the stage and began the much anticipated show. Being an album release show in the bands hometown, the crowd was full of enthusiastic fans but Typhoon kept to their music and played through their set. Without too much talk about the new album on stage, Typhoon would play two or three songs before talking to the crowd about the album or the next song that they were going to play, unlike their second opener who stopped between each song to talk to the crowd. This was surprising because this show was so highly anticipated and the announcing of the album release was highly publicized with music commentaries in the Portland Mercury and Willamette Weekly. Typhoon was no doubt entitled to stop and discuss each song that was on the album but chose not to and pleased the crowd with their extensive range of music.
Typhoon was able to make a lot of space out of such a small stage with as many band members as they have. Despite a well deserved slow start to the show, Typhoon had a great stage presence and did put on a show that was equivalent to the amount of hype that was given about their album release and show. Had they not performed so well one could only question the press building up their show but that was not the case here as Typhoon rocked the house at the Someday Lounge. Though this band has been around for more than 5 years, I would say that this is a young band on the verge of becoming something a lot bigger than their local and small tour fan base. Typhoon is a band made up of very creative musicians that is something to see live for their Soul/Healing & Easy Listening/Black Metal music and their unique collaboration of 10+ musicians on stage at once.
Typhoon was able to make a lot of space out of such a small stage with as many band members as they have. Despite a well deserved slow start to the show, Typhoon had a great stage presence and did put on a show that was equivalent to the amount of hype that was given about their album release and show. Had they not performed so well one could only question the press building up their show but that was not the case here as Typhoon rocked the house at the Someday Lounge. Though this band has been around for more than 5 years, I would say that this is a young band on the verge of becoming something a lot bigger than their local and small tour fan base. Typhoon is a band made up of very creative musicians that is something to see live for their Soul/Healing & Easy Listening/Black Metal music and their unique collaboration of 10+ musicians on stage at once.
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