The Show (Official)

THE SHOW Timeline Bio The Show's frontmen Johnny Saint-Lethal and Brandon Mitchell met in 2005 while Mitchell was hitchhiking from Albuquerque to New York City. Two years later, the pair formed The Show with a vision of making rock-based aggressive-indie music, with a psychedelic-pop atmosphere. They wanted each and every album to be different. The band released their debut album, "Here's To Your Jigsaw" in November 2009, receiving airplay for "I Don't Mind" in the UK, "To Save My Soul" on the US college circuit, and "Black & Blue" on light late night rotation on US commercial radio. The band toured the US and UK in support of Jigsaw in through 2010. With a heavy live concert schedule, the band supported many artists from Soul Asylum, CJ Ramone of the Ramones, Filter, School of Seven Bells, Red Jump Suit Apparatus, Miniature Tigers, World Party, Jaill, A Silent Film, and many more. This demonstrated the wide-range of appeal and genre-barrier breaking the band was able to accomplish. While preparing to record their follow up in 2012 with Chris Potter (The Verve, U2, Rolling Stones), Johnny developed pre-cancerous lesions directly on his vocal cords and was ordered to not use his voice for 90 days. By January of 2013, Saint-Lethal made a full recovery, and the band did a winter tour, ending at The Rex in Pittsburgh to mark their Fifth Anniversary in front of a sold-out crowd. With a new rhythm section, the band recorded and released "Don't Ask Don't Tell" in October 2013 to raise LGBT awareness during the crucial social movement in the United States. It was the lead single of their "...until you know..." EP which was released in February of 2014 to critical acclaim, and heavy rotation on college and indie radio in the US. The band toured in support, included stopping at the Move Festival, Riverjam and Woodstock 45. In 2015, with Jake Stretch on drums and Jacob Rieger on bass guitar as permanent members, the band embarked on a Southern US tour based around SXSW. After performing an official showcase at NXNE in Toronto in June 2015, the band began shopping their next two LPs, Mantra and Threadbare to labels. “It’s time for us to take that step… we were content being a DIY-band for the time that we were. We’ve got songs and a developed sound that warrant the backing of a label,” says Mitchell in an Autumn 2015 interview, right before a sold out hometown concert at the club at Stage AE. And with the crowd singing along to all “Black & Blue” and “I Don’t’ Mind”, and the ability to hear a pin drop despite the packed crowd between songs, I knew at that moment that The Show are on the cusp… one of the most exciting moments in a bands career… and I get to witness it. –Cate Selewitz, Live Manager Post-Indie Psych-Pop (melodic, aggressive guitar rock) band from Dormont, PA. Formed 2007. New Single out April 9 on YouTube and Radio-only.