Marking the first in a series of monthly showcases, the scrappy Brooklyn, N.Y.-based punk rockers of Titus Andronicus come to the Bourbon this Thursday at 9 p.m.
Opening bands Barometric and Ideal Cleaners from Lincoln, along with The So So Glos from Brooklyn, will kick off the night.
For a partnership that hopes to last, the Bourbon and Dailyer only recently decided to team up to host monthly concerts. Dailyer editor-in-chief Carson Vaughan said credit goes to the Bourbon's show organizer Jeremy Buckley.
"Buckley brought it up to me about a week and a half ago," Vaughan said. "He mentioned it to me in passing, but we didn't have a meeting about it until Tuesday night. And we just met up and talked through some details.
"But it's a go now: We're doing a monthly showcase at the Bourbon Theatre."
Hot on the heels of its last fundraiser with Eagle Seagull at Omaha's Slowdown, the Dailyer looks to continue augmenting its capital with Thursday's show. This year the paper had its printing costs paid for by the University of Nebraska Publications Board. If specific expectations are met, part of the proceeds from the concert will fund updates to the Dailyer's means of production.
"We have to get a certain capacity for this Titus Andronicus show to make any potential profit," Vaughan said. "It puts a little more pressure on us to have to fill certain numbers, but at the same time, if we're not able to do that, or if the band does not have the name recognition, we still don't lose anything. We still get our name out there, and we don't lose anything financially."
From his point of view, Vaughan sees the collaboration as a way for both the venue and the satiric publication to build momentum with their respective audiences.
"The Bourbon Theatre is relatively new still, and I think they just want to ramp up PR as much as possible for their shows," he said. "Jeremy knows that we've done a lot of our own PR for shows not related to the Bourbon. He's seen the effects and outcome of that, so I think that's sort of why it interested Jeremy in letting us tag along. For us, it's still the whole fundraiser, financial situation."
With Titus Andronicus fronting the bill, there's little doubt that concertgoers won't walk away satisfied. Regarded by many to be one of the nation's most spirited live acts, the band will have just passed the one-week mark of their fall tour with the So So Glos when they reach Lincoln.
Speaking of their first concert of the tour in Brooklyn last Wednesday, vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stickles said things got off to a roaring start.
"Last night's show was pretty bonkers," he said. "The kids were really having a good time. They were having such a good time that it was often hard to play the songs. Like lots of microphones getting knocked over, lots of pedal-stomping by people other than myself. My buddy Ian was getting thrown around like a rag doll. Like, these kids, these kids are wild."
Owing to its success, Titus has played in all but 13 states of the continental U.S., Stickles said. The band visits three more with this tour.
"We've never played in Lincoln," he said. "In fact, we've never played in Nebraska at all. But we're quite looking forward to it. We've got the dream of playing all 48 of the continental United States, and it's gonna be a thrill to cross Nebraska off that list."
If the show is anything like past performances, Nebraska will be thrilled to have taken part in the tour. Energy seems to be always at a fever pitch with Titus Andronicus. Stickles said it's the crowd that keeps them coming back night after night.
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