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As Penelope got involved in what became Horsegirl that spring, Isaac saw what his sister had and wanted something similar for himself. “I remember being pretty jealous of Penelope now having this outlet to make her own music,” he says. “I was like, ‘Wow, I really want to do that.’ When I met Asher, it felt like I could get that—and Penelope definitely wanted to support me through that.”
Being separated from his friends during the week was hard for Kai even before COVID-19. The pandemic added new complications. “I dropped out of high school when it was, like, virtual,” he says. “I was like, ‘This is not beneficial to either my mental health or my mental progress.’ I guess it wasn’t clear if I was going to go back or not. But I was like, ‘Fuck this, I cannot do this.’”
Charlie Johnston didn’t see her bandmates in Dwaal Troupe for at least a month after the start of Chicago’s pandemic lockdown. But she could hang out with Will Huffman, who lived about a block away. At first they maintained the recommended six-foot distance, but then they found a solution that was close enough to being outdoors to work for them. “We’d hang out in her garage with the door open so it was ventilated,” Will says.
Horsegirl introduced Niko to the other Hallogallo bands too. “When we hung out, it just made sense, musically,” Niko says. “I hadn’t really met anybody in Evanston—other than the people who I played with—that shared the same interest, like that realm of musical taste or passion to make music in the same way.”“Ballroom Dance Scene” came out in November 2020 as the title track of Horsegirl’s three-song debut EP.
“I know we met a lot of people through that,” Asher says. “Eli would foster those relationships in his home, which is so beautiful and nice of him to do. As Record Club started happening more, and as it started becoming a thing that you didn’t have to ask your friends if they were going—that’s when the scene started.”
This past March, Kickstand Productions assistant talent buyer Bridget Stiebris booked her first show at Beat Kitchen—the venue offered her Wednesday, April 6, and she had her eye on Dwaal Troupe and the larger Hallogallo scene. “The other thing I wanted to do, and still want to do the more I book, is that I want to make these spaces a little more than just a place to have a local show,” Bridget says.
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