Pat the Bunny Plays Show at Uncle Lou’s

Posted by on Feb 24, 2014. Filed under .

We sped out of St. Petersburg toward Orlando to see a folk punk legend. I was proud to say that I experienced this pilgrimage with Sophomores Conner Kennworthy and Aiden McShane, Senior Ray Scott Smith and my fellow entertainment editor Senior Ian Lindsay. Dusk transformed to night as we crossed the Gandy Bridge.

After a few hours of driving, passing by mouse ear shaped power lines as well as a Christian Theme Park, we reached Orlando. It was around this time we had put on Ramshackle Glory’s “Live the Dream” album to get pumped up for the show. Ramshackle Glory, for those not familiar, is Pat the Bunny’s current folk punk band. I would recommend those who listen to acts such as Andrew Jackson Jihad or Black Bird Raum to give the group a listen.  Although it may be possible, it is ill advised to go on a musical pilgrimage without at least an album of the artist playing on your way there.

As the album finished, we navigated around the streets of downtown Orlando looking for a dive bar called “Uncle Lou’s.” The venue didn’t have a big distinguishing sign on the outside, but that’s what all the kids dressed in punk clothes standing outside were for. The cover charge for the show was only five dollars and a black X on your hand.