photos by Chloe Ekberg | words by Michael Todd
Don't get them wrong: Red City Radio has a "standard" set of songs. A well-practiced batch of road tunes that have helped the band chug along through 21 shows in just as many days.
But when the Oklahoma City punk band returned to its home away from home in Omaha on Thursday night, the four-piece supplemented its standard set with requests and dedications, additional tracks that eventually amounted to every song they knew how to play, bassist Jonathan Knight said.
After second- and two-second-long covers of The Descendents, Worlds of Wayne host Wayne Brekke pounded his fist at the air during "Spinning In Circles Is A Gateway Drug," which Red City Radio sent out to him. And before its second song, "Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads," guitarist and vocalist Garrett Dale shouted out Hear Nebraska, with which the band has enjoyed a long friendship through Director Andrew Norman, who managed Red City Radio on an East Coast tour in 2010.
The concert at Brothers Lounge marked the 70th concert HN has helped present in less than three years. And with high-energy opener The Ridgways working on what they hoped would be their "second good review," Thursday night succeeded in bringing together a dedicated crowd of friends not fans.
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Red City Radio
The Ridgways
Michael Todd is Hear Nebraska's managing editor. Brothers reminds him of childhood. Reach him at michaeltodd@hearnebraska.org.