This past summer, two members of The Wolf decided to take a trip down to Portland for a concert at Revolution Hall, a venue that was originally Washington High School until it closed down in 1981 and reopened as a music venue in 2015. Revolution Hall utilizes its spacious interior as well as its auditorium, but not everyone is a fan.
Hugo Love-Geiger, a Franklin High School senior who attended the Adrianne Lenker concert on June 22, said “We were in line early, in the heat for hours, and we sat inside for another hour. When doors finally opened, the entire back of the line took up the front seats and the row behind them was reserved because some security guard let in the back of the line first and they didn’t do anything to kick those people out of the seats.”
Love-Geiger was more than right. The Wolf staff members queued in line for over four hours, to no avail, being in the third row behind people who slid into line a mere 45 minutes or less before doors. Maybe that 4.6/5 star review on Google isn’t what it seems.
On what could’ve been done differently, Love-Geiger said, “I wish they had more communication between security guards who let those people in. When they realized they made a mistake, they didn’t do anything. I wish they had offered an alternative because we all sat in the sun for hours, wasting our time.”
Penny Finney, also a senior who attends Franklin High School, said, “Besides what Hugo said, the Adrianne Lenker concert was so good. Boots.”
Singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker performed her new album Bright Future, a folk-rock album with light vocals and poetic lyrics about the human experience. One of the many human experiences shared on the record is family; it’s most heard in the song “Real House.” In the track, she reveals the time her parents owned a house for four years and its impact on her and her family as she sings, “and the whole family came back together.” She adds to the familial experience during the show, bringing out her brother, who carries a Jew’s harp, known in pop culture for making the twangy “boing” sound that can be found in almost any childhood cartoon.
The Wolf staff concluded that they would wait in line for hours in the blaring late June sun for Adrianne Lenkers’ beautiful performance, while making new friends despite the inconvenience of the long queue.
