Aaron Perrino, lead singer for The Sheila Divine, played a solo show Friday night at TT The Bears Place in Cambridge, MA. It was a great night of music including The Also-Rans, featuring Listen Up! contributor Brad Searles on drums. But more about The Also Rans in another entry.
The Sheila Divine met at college in upstate New York. The band was born after they each independently relocated to Boston. Aaron has some of the best vocal cords in all of music. The band reminds me a little bit of The Cult (especially on the song "Sideways") and I hear resemblence to The Tragically Hip in "I'm A Believer." Overall, they are an amazing pop/rock band. They've got a great website designed by fans with a variety of MP3s to download: both live and from their albums. The band's six-song EP "Secret Society" is due out in September. A highlight to Aaron's show Saturday night was his self-discribed sacrilegious cover of The Cure's "Fascination Street". It was a brooding, almost country rendition.
Hear the music
(These links take you directly to the MP3 file posted on The Sheila Divine website. To download the file, right click the link and chose "save link as" or "save target as". There are more audio files on their MP3 page.)
Back to the Cradle : live
I'm a Believer : live
Sideways : From the "Where Have My Countrymen Gone" album
I discovered the bands awesome music when i moved to Buffalo, NY in the winter of '98. They quickly became my favorite band and i have since turned on my wife, sister, and a few friends to their music. I have seen them in concert at the Showplace Theatre and thought that they ruled. The bummer of it all is that i have recently moved back to my hometown of Wilmington, DE., where the band is pretty much unheard of, and i havent heard them get any airtime yet. I was curious if someone could give me any info on how to get them palyed more down here, or to find out if they would ever do a show down here, cause my sis would love to see them w/ me.
Posted by: neal davis on February 23, 2003 05:33 PMI discovered the bands awesome music when i moved to Buffalo, NY in the winter of '98. They quickly became my favorite band and i have since turned on my wife, sister, and a few friends to their music. I have seen them in concert at the Showplace Theatre and thought that they ruled. The bummer of it all is that i have recently moved back to my hometown of Wilmington, DE., where the band is pretty much unheard of, and i havent heard them get any airtime yet. I was curious if someone could give me any info on how to get them palyed more down here, or to find out if they would ever do a show down here, cause my sis would love to see them w/ me.
Posted by: neal davis on February 23, 2003 05:34 PMhey, just wondering if anyone has the spacemilk mp3 from the sheila divine, or if they know where i can get it. i cant seem to find it anywhere. need to replace the cd that got stolen, i dont have money to buy it again.
Posted by: chavo on May 17, 2003 02:34 PM