shannon and the clams

Shannon and the Clams

Playing Portland’s Project Pabst festival… its Shannon and the Clams! one of my favorite bands. Listening to them always makes me want to play joyous music.

These are drawings I made of Shannon and the band in 2015. wow 10 years ago! Am I any better now?

I’m working on a new play about a band. I was inspired reading Kathleen Hannah’s book “Riot Girl” and listening to this podcast interviewing Shannon. It sounded like she was a cool person and listening was like hanging out with friends. I’ll let you know when the play is finished 🙂 the plan is it will be a “behind the music” style documentary about a fantasy band.

Shannon and the Clams

A few years ago I was in Toronto for nxne and someone told me they were looking forward to seeing Shannon and the clams. The name stuck in my head and I looked them up and dug their sound. They were playing a post haloween show in Portland. The show was very fun, and they bring their sound of their records very accurately to their live show.

Here is my warm up drawing.

Whoops, forgot one of the ns. Better draw them over again. Form where I was standing, the drummer was hard to see.