Students were left with mixed feelings after University Union announced the band Parachute will perform on April 7 as the headliner for the second show of the 2010 Bandersnatch Music Series, a subdivision of UU.

‘I think a lot of students will know who they are, but a lot of people wouldn’t know their name but (would) know their song, ‘She is Love,” said Alison Murphy, co-director of the Bandersnatch Music Series and a junior in the Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries.

Parachute, a pop-rock band, is known for its debut album, ‘Losing Sleep,’ which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Digital Albums chart.

Ashley Rosenberg, a senior marketing and management major, not only knows the song ‘She is Love’ but has been a fan of Parachute since the band’s album was released last June.

‘A friend told me I should listen to them and I started listening to them and watching their videos on YouTube and I got hooked,’ Rosenberg said. ‘I’m really excited that good music is coming to Syracuse and I will of course be attending.’

Though some students such as Rosenberg are excited for the show, Dan Hubsher, a senior advertising and psychology major, said he has never heard of Parachute and it would take some serious convincing from his friends to get him to go to the concert.

‘I think that recently University Union hasn’t brought in acts that peaked my interest,’ Hubsher said. ‘I think they could be doing a lot better like a few years ago with Kanye West.’

Murphy said that since the Miike Snow concert, the first Bandersnatch Music Series show of the 2010 season, sold out, she hopes this performance will do the same and fill the Schine Underground to its 350-person capacity.

Local Syracuse band White Picket Fence will open for Parachute. Murphy said she thought the group would be a good fit for the show.

‘They are similar to pop-rock, and I thought it would be cool to have a female-fronted band as the opener to the show,’ Murphy said.

Tickets are currently available for $5 at the Schine Box Office and online. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and music begins at 8 p.m.

‘I think it will be a really good show,’ Murphy said. ‘They’re really good live performers. It’s something different. It’s different than Miike Snow and Block Party, it gives more diversity.’

rltoback@syr.edu

 

Published on March 23, 2010 at 12:00 pm