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...here was a band with marketing potential. Comparatively, anyway. The three members of the emo-tinged rock band look like they were chosen for their ability to get beaten up in high school, but their songs have clear pop-hit potential because of their raw emotional quality. Singer Aaron Perrino literally fills the room with the sheer intensity of his voice - you get the feeling that a recording wouldn't do his singing justice. To ink a deal, the band will probably have to package this emotion a little more slickly, with more obvious hooks, but they're well...
...Neil Levine) strutted on stage like Buddy Holly in a three-way mirror and began to play, the whole crowd of anxious modern citizens was alike in amazement; not a one was prepared for the emotional intensity delivered soon thereafter. Goofiness we might have expected from the bespectacled Aaron Perrino, the three-person band's guitarist/lead singer/Max Headroom lookalike. And we might have anticipated a too-jaded-to-smile brand of contemporary bass-playing from bassist Jim Gilbert...
...music proved to be neither silly nor blase, and it had none of the ironic distance the band's stage presence seemed to portend. What ensued instead was a furious and emotional foray into Perrino's consciousness and into the essence of rock and roll...
With a nod to Radiohead here and to Sunny Day Real Estate there, The Sheila Divine's nine-song set began and ended in sweetness. They started the evening with "The Amendment," a precious ballad that allowed Perrino a warm up before exploding into the kind of fervor needed for the later "Modern Log" and "Opportune Moment." Except for the ballad, the songs were similar in form; they began with a Belle and Sebastian like delicacy and built up to a passionate central moment that belied the simplicity of the band's instruments (drummer Shawn Sears plays only a bass...
...band got its start at Oneonta State College in upstate New York. Perrino and Sears knew of Gilbert because he made sandwiches at the Student Union, and when the three moved to Boston in 1997, The Sheila Divine was born. ("Sheila" is slang for "boy who is not tough" in Australia.) They were signed by Cherry Disc Records after sneaking into the president's office and putting their two-song demo tape in his deck. Perrino recently quit his job as an office-boy at a real estate agency, and the band's first full-length album, New Parade, will...