by Alexa Scott
Hailing from Perth, Western Australia, Spacey Jane was a long way from home when they found themselves at Warehouse Live in Houston Texas as part of their Here Comes Everybody International Tour. As soon as the band stepped on stage the set opened with “Sitting Up”, with the fitting line “how’s that for an intro?”. It was an excellent intro according to the crowd, who roared with cheers, giving the Aussie band a classic Texan welcome. RIght off the get go, guitarist Ashton Hardman-Le Cornu set the tone for the high energy show, flipping his long curls back and forth as he played. As a fellow long curly-haired person, part of me thought this was mostly due to the lack of peripheral vision that inevitably comes from rocking the curls, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt. After the second song, “Lunchtime”, lead singer Caleb Harper stated “We’re gonna be playing for the next hour or so, and just try to fit as much as possible in”, this proved an accurate description as the show progressed with little to no breaks between tracks.
Throughout the first half of the show, Spacey Jane did a great job of keeping the energy up, with an ample amount of bouncing and rocking across the stage which the crowd naturally fed off of. This continued until around halfway through the show when both the band and the crowd got a break as the opening of “Bothers Me” played. A majority of the themes within Spacey Jane’s music deal with processing emotions and life experiences and this was evident as the crowd sang the words back to the melancholy song. The intimate venue fostered this sense of connection that was beautifully compatible with the music being played.
The show continued with much of the higher energy from before, especially with the track “Feeding the Family” which originally jump started the bands early career. Ending the show with an encore featuring “Booster Seat”, Spacey Jane wished us farewell. Houston marked a near end of the US part of their international tour with only two stops following it. After this, Spacey Jane will take a stop in Mexico City before hitting Europe for the rest of their international tour.
Never listened to Spacey Jane? Songs I’d recommend:
Booster Seat, Bothers Me, Feeding the Family