Concert Review: Broncho Give An Anti-Prom To Elsewhere

When you build a community with your music, you realize you can welcome everyone, while accepting you will not be loved by them. The balance between making your sound exclusive while make your fans inclusive is something I realized at Broncho’s Elsewhere show. Looking on at the admiring faces, Broncho gave a show that was the definition of artistic because their fans “got them” whereas anyone outside of The Hall might not. 

I always love when fans feel they “understand” an artist, and Broncho felt like the dream band for an Anti-Prom. In such a sequence, “Class Historian,” “Keep It In Line,” and “Family Values” were the sonic affronts to every “professor” that tried to tell you who you were and where your life was going. Notice I put “professor” in quotes. I am a firm believer that, literally, every place we go, from restaurant to work, can give off a high-school vibe; dividing people according to cliques and capacities. Yet, Broncho play for those of us that realize we could never “fit in” because we are not ones to be “figured out.”

As one woman gleefully crowd-surfed declaring, “This is the most successful moment of my life!”  the audience benevolently moshed. It was as if Broncho was emanating calm to a post-punk crowd; turning punches into peaceful prowls. They still ignited punk’s sense of rage and discontent, but somehow how condensed it to s version that spoke more those battling between their desire to be kind and reasons not to be. From “Speed Demon” To “Weekend,” Broncho’s hypnotic chords and Ryan Lindsey’s aphoristic voice felt like a steady stream of catharsis. 

Lindsey jiggles his body in place, jumping up and down while never leaving the floor. It as if music is a combination of water and electricity running through him, and furthers Broncho’s clash when observing Bad Behavior. We live in a world where boys will get more judged for paint their nails than punching another kid; this may seem minute, but at Broncho’s “Anti-Prom”, people connected on those micro aggressions that made you feel like a MACRO LOSER.  For More Information On Broncho Click Here.