193 Coffeehouse hosted a screamo punk night for students on Thursday, April 4 where audience members could be found dancing around the room in parallel to the surge of sounds the bands projected.
Azure Bluet, Nithan Gohok and the University of Rhode Island student band Told Not To Worry all performed at the event.
Screamo is a genre that embraces disharmonious musical notes and clashes of sounds, according to the Cambridge Dictionary.
Azure Bluet kicked off the show with their set. The band is a two-person screamo pair.
“We felt swag about our set,” Brian Wright of Azure Bluet said. “I think the audience liked the first song the m ost, ‘Untitled.’”
Nithan Gohok played next. The band played tracks including “On Eggshells,” “Tom hanks is forrest gump” and “i hope that it’s h ot in chicago.”
“This was the most fun show we’ve played,” Paige Promrat, the vocalist of Nithan Gohok, said. “The crowd, the room, the other people – perfection.”
The final band to play was Told Not To Worry. During the other bands’ performances, members of Told Not To Worry could be found front and center dancing and moshing along to the music.
Much of the energy they put out on the dance floor was then brought into their set.
“I thought the concert was awesome,” the band’s drummer Seth Brown said. “We played with two epic, talented bands and our set was super locked in.”
Brown felt like this was the band’s best performance to date. During Told Not to Worry’s performance, Wright from Azure Bluet and Jocelyn Coyne from Barbed Wire Barbie appeared as guest vocalists for some of their songs.
The audience was made up of three different groups. The first group stayed towards the back of the crowd, sat on the couches and talked to each other with the bands playing in the background.
The second group, which made up the majority of the audience, stood around the center of the coffeehouse and swayed along to the music.
The third group could be found right in front of the stage. These audience members could be seen shoving, running, spinning and flailing themselves around to the music.
The coffeehouse had a sizable crowd from the time the doors opened at 6 p.m. The crowd continued to grow until it nearly filled the room when the concert ended around 8:30 p.m.
“Lots of people came and the coffeehouse is just the most welcoming and loving place on Earth,” Brown said. “Overall, I’d say it was an awesome time.”
On Saturday, Told Not To Worry also performed a benefit concert alongside the bands Barbed Wire Barbie, who appeared at screamo punk night, and Ultra Violet. The funds raised from the concert will be donated to causes supporting Palestine. The concert was held in URI’s Atrium One in the Memorial Union.
Told Not To Wo rry also has a concert coming up in Providence, Rhode Island at AS220 on Thursday, April 11. The re, they will be performing alongside Barbed Wire Barbie, Moss Boy and Plant A Bug Grow A Flower.
193 Coffeehouse has a show most Thursday nights featuring bands and open mic nights for students to participate in. The coffeehouse also hosts events including movie nights, paint nights and slam poetry. For more information on events, the coffeehouse can be found on Instagram @193coffeehouse.