The Bots Energetically Take The Stage At The Sinclair
David Weiner ’16 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer
The crowd was draped in flannel, bearded and silent. Two teenage punk rockers took the stage wearing bandannas and cutoff white tees that featured triangular shaped breasts.
The Bots tried their hardest to get the Sinclair up and running.
Opening for indie folk rock band, Augustines, the Jimi Hendrix esq. Bots seemed to be at the wrong venue. Their music was captivating and their energy was electric, but their idea of fun was so apparently different than the crowd’s that night.
“You in the back,” Mikaiah said to a dark and near empty venue. “Come a little closer and have fun with us.”
The Bots are made up of two teenage brother’s, Mikaiah, lead vocals and guitar and younger brother Anaiah, a power house on drums.
The young group is no stranger to performing. Having already completed two Vans Warped Tours, Two Afropunk Festival tours played festivals in Europe and supported major touring recording artists, the teenage Bots are already seasoned music veterans.
It was easy to tell that the wildly energetic Bots were used to playing for wildly energetic audiences. It was hard to watch Mikaiah struggle to engage the statuesque, heavy- footed crowd.
Their booth after the performance was near empty even after closing their show with a huge drum solo and the sacrificial dragging of a guitar across the stage by the power cord.
This group may not have been at the right venue on this particular night, but according to Rolling Stone, Spin, TIME, Vanity Fair and nearly every other credible music source around, The Bots have a very promising future ahead of them.
The group played in Chicago on Oct. 10 and Minnesota on Oct. 11.