
Photo Courtesy of Kaila Williams
This Saturday at Beer:30, Bright Giant is back from Iowa to play with Emporia’s own Radio City and opening band The Floor is Lava.
“We just played in Iowa City last night and it was deader than hell. We really like coming and playing in Kansas actually, and any place we can get with Radio City,” said Bright Giant guitarist Josh Davis. “I think we’ll keep doing well there for sure.”
Both Radio City and Bright Giant are currently working on full-length albums, so they will have new material to play at the bar. Radio City guitarist and Emporia State graduate student Eric Murphy said in a previous interview that the record was set to release this month, but now the tentative release date is December.
“The artwork is being submitted right now, but they have to proof the artwork, which takes like a week and then they have to proof all the audio, which could take anywhere from a week to a few months,” Murphy said.
Davis said Bright Giant plans to release their CD sometime in February or March.
Saturday night will be local band The Floor is Lava’s first time on the bill at Beer:30. Sophomore business major and guitarist and vocalist for the band, Nick Yoho, said the band has played at the bar’s open mic night Thursday nights.
“We’re obviously way excited. We’ve talked about playing in the red room since we really started jamming together, before we were even a band,” Yoho said.
Yoho said that, as a band, Beer:30 is one of their favorite places to play because the crowd is so receptive and makes the band perform better.
“If you feel the love coming, you like to send it back,” Yoho said.
Yoho said The Floor is Lava’s bassist Chandler King is friends with Radio City Guitarist Matt Kosinski, so the bands connected through those two members. Yoho said his band looks up to the two bands they will be opening for.
“We look up to both of those bands quite a bit, especially Radio City because they’re from here in Emporia and we know those guys,” Yoho said.
Murphy said Radio City and Bright Giant haven’t seen each other in a month or two, but they have kept up on contacting each other by texting.
“We all text each other all the time, like it’s really weird because at first I assumed that Josh and I would be communicating, but all of us all talk to each other all the time,” Murphy said.
Davis said he’s excited to play with Radio City again and that he talks to Murphy every day.
“We’re dating road bands,” Davis said.
The Floor is Lava will open at around 9 or 9:30 p.m. Cover charge for those younger than 21 is $5 and it’s $3 for anyone over 21.
Lauren Walbridge









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