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JUNE 7-13, 2018 FACEBOOK.COM/WHATZUPFTWAYNE // WWW.WHATZUP.COM ------------------ Feature • Fitz & The Tantrums ---------------- Proudly presents in Fort Wayne, Indiana Clapping All the Way By Steve Penhollow The decision to recruit outside help was a difficult one, said singer Noelle Scaggs. We live in strange times. “It was especially hard being the unit that we Many once-ubiquitous pop acts that had their hey- are, where we have pretty much done everything our- WEDNESDAY, days prior to the year 2000 have trouble getting record selves,” she said. “There’s this pride that hits, and then JULY 11 • 8PM deals while younger acts that pay tribute to those older it’s kind of like, ‘Well, what will people think when Foellinger Outdoor Theatre acts can do quite well. they see another writer on there? Will they think we WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 • 8PM Fort Wayne, Indiana Into the latter camp fall Fitz and the Tantrums. can’t do this or that we’re phony?’ You have all these Foellinger Outdoor Theatre The band performs at the Clyde Theatre on June different fears that are wrapping into your project be- Fort Wayne, Indiana 12. fore you even really start it.” Fitz and the Tantrums started out in 2011 as a soul Scaggs told the Ohio State Journal that working revival act a la Sharon and the Dap-Kings. with outside songwriters gave the band a mirror to They revisited several musical tropes from the look into. 1980s on their sophomore release, More Than Just a “It gave us a direction. ‘What are you think- Dream. ing about right The band’s now? What last album was are you feeling a collection of right now? This slick contempo- is going to be rary pop songs what this song that surely didn’t is going to be alienate fans about. It’s based of Maroon 5 or on what you’re Smash Mouth, feeling ... This is SUNDAY, JULY 15 • 7PM just to cite a pair all coming from Foellinger Outdoor Theatre WEDNESDAY, JULY 25• 8PM of random ex- you now.’ So it Fort Wayne, Indiana Foellinger Outdoor Theatre • Fort Wayne, Indiana amples. was a learning Lead singer experience. Michael Fitzpat- “I think rick described it (bringing in the songwriting outside collabo- period for the rators) really third album as worked in our “dark days.” favor because “We were I think had we exhausted [and not done that, uninspired] by there would be other music we no ‘HandClap,’” were hearing out she said. “I don’t SATURDAY, in the world,” even know if AUG. 4 • 8PM he told Bullett FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS the [self-titled] Foellinger Outdoor Magazine. “We record would be Theatre found ourselves w/MIKKY EKKO done yet.” Fort Wayne, Indiana THURSDAY, AUGUST 18 • 8PM in a real writer’s block mo- 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 12 The big hit single from ment – the first real writer’s that third album, “Hand- block moment this band The Clyde Theatre Clap,” was the battering has ever had. “ 1808 Bluffton Rd., Fort Wayne ram that broke the block Fitzpatrick told the $25 thru Wooden Nickel Music, for good, Fitzpatrick said. Los Angeles Times that he Neat Neat Neat Music & Records, “It came very quickly, cried himself to sleep every with a visceral energy,” he night. www.clydetheatre.com, said. “I didn’t care what “We’d had success or 800-514-3849 anyone said – this was the with the last record,” he single, I could feel it in my said, “and no matter how good a songwriter you are, bones, and it changed the whole process.” you’re lucky if you strike gold one out of five times. “I was feeling this massive wave of relief after so But it was total writer’s block.” many months of hitting a wall,” Fitzpatrick told Asia Fitzpatrick told Reverb.com that he thinks a heavy One. “Every time I tried to recut the vocals, they never touring schedule had estranged the band from the cre- had that kind of raw excitement.” SATURDAY, SEPT. 1 • 8PM ative tools needed to make new music. The song was enormously popular with listeners. Foellinger Outdoor Theatre • Fort Wayne, Indiana WEDNESDAY, SEPT 26 • 8PM “The nature of touring is such a weird thing,” he But not all music critics were fond of the band’s new Foellinger Outdoor Theatre • Fort Wayne, Indiana said, “where you’re in a different city every 18 hours. direction. That can be a really de-centering sort of thing. In that Rolling Stone went so far as to say that the band Tickets on sale now at Fort Wayne Parks & first couple months of writing, I just was not excited “have lost their soul – literally.” by anything I was coming up with. I was wanting to Fitzpatrick said it was mistake for anyone to tie Recreation Office, all 3 Wooden Nickel Music evolve but didn’t know how that was going to take the band to a particular genre. locations, Charge by phone 260/427-6000 shape or what it would sound like.” “For me, pop has always been a huge part of our The band had no choice but to call in the musical vocabulary, and pop to me just means a real eye and and online www.foellingertheatre.org cavalry, Fitzpatrick said. focus on great melodies that are infectious,” he said. “It wasn’t really until we opened up to working Regardless of how any of the band’s songs sound with outside producers, collaborators and songwriters that we broke through,” he said. Continued on page 8 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com ------------------------------------------------------------------June 7, 2018 whatzup Volume 22, Number 43 e’ve been at this for nearly 22 years now, and this is the first time we’ve ever been tempted to say that there’s actually too much to do in whatzup- land, aka northeast Indiana. With major acts being booked left and right at Wthe new and improved Clyde Theatre and Sweetwater’s just barely year-old Pavilion (look to your right, folks) and local music series being announced for every shopping center and neighborhood in the Fort Wayne area, well, all we can do is try our best to keep up our end and help keep you informed. Look down this page, and you can see evidence that we’re doing what we can. Seven – count ’em – national concert features and Picks, previews of Hobnobben and Middle Waves, columns on Michael Martone’s return to his alma mater and the Arena Dinner Theatre’s last show of the season, a local CD review and more, not to mention the most complete art and entertainment calendars on the planet. And yet in 24 pages of newsprint, we can only scratch the surface, really. The web offers more flexibility, so if you need to look further out, go to whatzup.com. And if you’re a venue or an event organizer of one kind or another, and you don’t see your stuff there, well, whose fault is that? You get your stuff to us, we put it in. It’s as simple as that. LIVE CONCERT The rest of you, happy reading and planning and please remember to tell ’em whatzup sent you. inside the issue FRIDAY • features ROAD NOTEZ .................................. 14 FLIX ................................................. 19 AUG.24 Life of the Party DOORS AT 6PM || SHOW AT 7PM FITZ & THE TANTRUMS .............................2 SCREENTIME ................................. 19 Clapping All the Way Disney’s Solo Doing Just Enough at Box TICKETS ON SALE NOW | SWEETWATERPAVILION.COM GUITAR ARMY .............................................4 FARE WARNING ............................. 20 A Three-Axe Onslaught 5501 US HWY 30 W, FORT WAYNE, IN 46818 Michael Martone ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL ............................5 ON BOOKS ...................................... 20 The Kings of Western Swing This Could Hurt CHASE RICE.................................................6 DIRECTOR’S NOTES ....................... 21 His Own Kind of Country A Little Night Music • columns & reviews • calendars SPINS ................................................7 LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ....................9 Third Frame, King Tuff, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks MUSIC/ON THE ROAD .................... 14 BACKTRACKS ...................................7 ROAD TRIPZ ................................... 18 Weed, Weed! (1971) OUT AND ABOUT ...............................9 STAGE & DANCE ............................ 21 SEPTEMBER 21 Middle Waves Has Its Big Reveal ART & ARTIFACTS .......................... 20 PICKS ............................................. 12 THINGS TO DO ............................... 22 Badfish, Rodney Carrington, Dogs of Society Cover by Brandon Jordan FARE WARNING ............................. 10 Fitz & The Tantrums cover and page 2 photos by Joseph FOELLINGER THEATRE Hobnobben Film Festival Cultice Membership Makes The Difference TICKETS ON SALE 10AM FRIDAY, MAY 18 • Job Referrals • Experienced Negotiators AT FORTWAYNEPARKS.ORG • Insurance • Contract Protection Fort Wayne Musicians Association Call Bruce Graham for ALL TITLES AVAILABLE AT MODESTMOUSE.COM more information 260-420-4446 AFM Local 58 www.fwma.us June 7, 2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: ------------------------------- Feature • Guitar Army ------------------------------ 103.3 The Fort ............................................................... 10 A Big Apple Jazz Club ..................................................... 11 Allen County Public Library / Rock the Plaza ............. 10 Arena Dinner Theatre / A Little Night Music ................ 21 Beatles vs. Stones ......................................................... 13 BrandArts ........................................................................ 23 Audiences Unlimited / Agen Family