Featuerd Live Music Artist of the Week - Dot Dot Dot ...

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Many people might remember Dot Dot Dot as one of the finalists from the single-season reality TV show, The Next Great American Band.  On the show, the judges mostly commented about the excitement and electricity of their performances, but TV really did not do them justice.  The home viewer was restricted by distance, and a television tube, from really living the live experience of the band.

Fortunately, Dot Dot Dot was based in Chicagoland, which is also where Cabin 7 Promotions is based, so I was able to see them live (in person live, not TV live) on more than one occasion.  And I can vouch for the fact that watching them on TV is not even close to as much as watching them in person.  This is a band that definitely fed off the energy of the crowd and the festival atmosphere.  It’s almost as if this band was created for the festival scene.  I never got to see them in a club, and I’m sure they were good indoors as well, but they seemed to really excel in the outdoor stage setting – a setting with carnival rides and beer tents and carnival games and all the noise and excitement and electricity of an outdoor festival.  Somehow the band was part of the festival, not just “the act playing on the Sponsor XYZ Stage over there”.   They melded perfectly with their surroundings and the energy from their surroundings.

This was definitely a band that loved – absolutely loved – interacting with the live audience.  Not the just the frontman/vocalist, but the entire band would interact with the audience.  Audience members sitting/standing near the back, would inevitably be drawn to the front – there was that magnetism the band projected.

At the festivals, the band played what they dubbed their “Party set” which included a mixture of their originals, full-length “party songs” from the 80s and 90s, and a few extended medleys of very famous “party songs”.  The organization of the setlist allowed for the excitement and energy to just build and build and build – almost like waiting for the New Year’s Eve ball to drop – and then the show would end with a very powerful high-energy party song of some sort.

Clearly the goal of the band was to get the audience off their feet and dancing and cheering and swaying – and they accomplished that completely.  The audience would be singing in full volume during the party song medleys, dancing, and smiling.  Dot Dot Dot was the perfect party band – but the cool thing about them was that they had their own original repertoire of songs as well, they didn’t just rely on the hits made famous by other bands.  Dot Dot Dot had songs of their own, which fit perfectly into the mix of cover tunes – in both quality and energy.  A truly fun evening!

Dot Dot Dot was a co-ed band of 3 men and 2 women, and were a local music supergroup of sort, with each of the members coming from already established and popular local bands.

Unfortunately, for us music fans, the band decided to call it quits in late 2013.  We can always hope for a reunion at some point!!!
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