{"id":1000,"date":"2010-10-27T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2026-06-27T23:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T23:26:23","slug":"the-thermals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"The Thermals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>October 2010, 40 Watt, Athens, Ga.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hutch Harris grabbed the mic and looked out into the smallish, yet devoted 40 Watt crowd. \u201cThis is a Thermals show,\u201d he said, then kicked into \u201cWe Were Sick,\u201d one of the many three-minute gems in the band\u2019s arsenal. The crowd at the front of the stage was a mass of movement, grooving along as The Thermals did what it does best.<\/p>\n<p>Portland\u2019s Thermals \u2014 Hutch on guitar, Kathy Foster on bass and Westin Glass on drums, powered through a fun and snappy hour-long set. The band played selections from its five albums, highlighting <em>Personal Life<\/em>, its 2010 release. It was those new songs \u2014 a bit tamer and brooding \u2014 which brought the pace of the show down. But the band would quickly counter with \u201cHow We Know\u201d (from 2004\u2019s <em>Fuckin A<\/em>) or <em>St. Rosa and the Swallows<\/em> (from 2006\u2019s masterful <em>The Body, The Blood, the Machine<\/em>) to revive the tempo back to a frantic level.<\/p>\n<p>For a three-piece, the band is rather engaging. Kathy is a monster on the Fender bass, wielding it about like a giant sword, while Westin was a big cheerleader for getting the crowd going during the song\u2019s drumless interludes. Hutch\u2019s guitar playing is much like his singing, all movement and frenetic pacing. It\u2019s a fun band to watch as well as hear.<\/p>\n<p>Songs on the night included \u201cHere\u2019s Your Future,\u201d \u201cI Might Need You to Kill,\u201d \u201cReturning to the Fold,\u201d \u201cBack to Gray,\u201d \u201cI Don\u2019t Believe You\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s Trivial\u201d. \u201cYour Love is So Strong\u201d was one of the highlights from the new album, as were \u201cNo Culture Icons\u201d and \u201cA Pillar of Salt,\u201d which brought the night to a satisfying end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2010, 40 Watt, Athens, Ga. Hutch Harris grabbed the mic and looked out into the smallish, yet devoted 40 Watt crowd. \u201cThis is a Thermals show,\u201d he said, then kicked into \u201cWe Were Sick,\u201d one of the many three-minute gems in the band\u2019s arsenal. The crowd at the front of the stage was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[45,182],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concerts","tag-40-watt","tag-the-thermals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}