Live photos: My Brightest Diamond and Clare and the Reasons @ Schubas in Chicago

November 14, 2008 Leave a comment

Sorry, a little behind on this (show was last Friday, Nov. 7)! I was introduced to Clare & the Reasons a little over a year ago when I was assigned a fashion story on Clare for Venus Zine. The band, led by Clare Muldaur Manchon, is wonderful — the music is beautifully orchestrated and the lyrics are so fun (there’s a song about Pluto not being a planet anymore). Of course, I missed them in New York this summer and the first time I know of that they’ve been in Michigan since then was Grand Rapids last Wednesday, but I work 8-midnight so couldn’t make it. But! I was able to catch their Chicago show (currently touring with the lovely Shara Worden, aka My Brighest Diamond) last weekend.

As an opening act, it can’t be easy to get an audience hooked on a band whose music they most likely don’t know, but they did it and did it well. My favorite song (that I didn’t already know) was called something like “Can Your Car Do That? I Don’t Think So.” You can probably guess what it was about.

My Brightest Diamond was also amazing. I didn’t totally know what to expect but Shara Worden has an incredible stage presence and her music sounded a lot like her albums (she borrowed Clare’s Reasons as her backing band). I’m definitely going to try to catch the tour in New York when I’m there in December.

Clare and the Reasons’ MySpace
My fashion story about Clare Muldaur Manchon
My Brightest Diamond’s MySpace

Clare and the Reasons