With a splash of drink, a dash of cohabitation, and an inability to throw their hearts entire into their day jobs, a band was birthed. "Pleasant Sweaters are the friendliest drunks you'll meet and really not much of a punk band at all" -- Nels (a Seattleite by birth and pose). "The first show I played was opening up for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players at the Seattle Drum School Christmas Party (was it in 1998, maybe?)." He had pretty much stopped performing live after he moved to Bo...
With a splash of drink, a dash of cohabitation, and an inability to throw their hearts entire into their day jobs, a band was birthed. "Pleasant Sweaters are the friendliest drunks you'll meet and really not much of a punk band at all" -- Nels (a Seattleite by birth and pose). "The first show I played was opening up for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players at the Seattle Drum School Christmas Party (was it in 1998, maybe?)." He had pretty much stopped performing live after he moved to Boston in 2006 to further his studies. Michael Louis (of New Jersey) toured quite a bit as a solo artist once upon a time but hadn't done much recently either. "We were seeing a show at T.T. the Bear’s in Cambridge when we both realized how much we missed playing music on stages," recalls Michael L., though it's unclear whether Nels was actually there that night. Nevertheless, at some point the two decided it would be fun to have a band that played gigs and recorded things sometimes and so--look at them--they formed a band! Mutual friend Jaron Shevy (of upstate New York) was recruited to play drums and regularly disrupt practice by covering 90s alt-rock hits. Nels' housemate Jackie (of Long Island) asked if she could join the band and "do whatever." The cellist Michael C. and the violinist Kimberly had been asked several times if they wanted to play music sometime and though they had always said, "yes," it took many months before Nels finally remembered to tell them when and where practice was going to be--but all good things in time must come to pass, and when this came to pass, they brought their friend Hunter to play bass. And their songs meandered from rather raucous (“Late-Night Conversations About Egon Schiele”) to a bit mellow (“Falling in Love with Friends”), from finished ("Top o' the Pops") to incomplete ("Untitled").
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