Due to circumstances out of our control, The Districts at Club Dada on
April 7th has been postponed until further notice. We hope to have
information regarding a rescheduled date as soon as possible. Thank
you.
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The Districts with Glove | Club Dada " You Know I’m Not Going
Anywhere is an unachievable promise,” says The Districts bandleader
Rob Grote. “It’s about a dream for love to last forever and a
yearning to postpone death. It is about wanting to escape everyday
life while also craving time with one who’s present. It’s a plea
to remain the same in the face of constant change, and the certainty
of going nowhere fast.” Written after playing nearly 200 shows over
two years in support of their 2017 album, Popular Manipulations , The
Districts’ fourth full-length You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere
almost never arrived. As they began to contemplate a new album, Grote
and his longtime bandmates Pat Cassidy (guitar), Connor Jacobus
(bass), and Braden Lawrence (drums) faced a transitional period that
was painful for both personal and professional reasons, and found
themselves fatigued and disoriented as a group. Grote also felt
dysphoric from the anxiety-provoking state of the world today, while
facing a daily battle with the dire health problems of his beloved
dog. The Districts were forced to rethink everything. “This album
was written as an escape and as reassurance. I was falling in love
with someone new and trying to juggle this desperate desire to escape
with the need to show up in my life. It’s pretty damn hard to be
present and completely checked out all at once,” Grote explains.
“It felt like much of my world had reached such a pitch that all I
could do was try to tune it out. I felt really uncertain about the
future of the band and super detached from much of what I used to
identify with, on a personal level and with our music. I was thinking,
‘ Do I want to keep doing music? ’ ‘ Do I want to keep doing it
in this context? ’” Grote retreated to his bedroom and started
writing with no objective other than to create. Free from
expectations, and with an acoustic guitar, synthesizer, and drum
machine at hand, he discovered a newfound creative freedom.
“Originally, I had no intention of them even being a record. It was
strictly a process of trying to connect to something outside of and
larger than myself—kind of this rocky imbalance of isolating myself
while trying to maintain connections as time rushed on. There was a
lot of back and forth between working as a group and not feeling
capable of doing that,” reflects Grote. “I ended up taking these
recordings super far along, whereas normally I would almost
compulsively share them with my bandmates as soon as I had an idea.
This time I was sitting on them and putting work into them in a way
that I hadn’t known I enjoyed doing.”
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