Gorge Guide

BLUE SKIES FOR BLACK HEARTS

March 2, 2012
9pm 
CEBU at the Best Western Hood River Inn
Hood River, OR

Indie Pop Rock
       
Blue Skies For Black Hearts was born at the beginning of this shiny new millennium as an outlet for prolific songwriter and lead singer Pat Kearns. Pat's other job is producing records, which he has done for the likes of The Exploding Hearts, the Lovvers (U.K.), Dandy Warhols, Clorox Girls, Red Dons and the Nice Boys. 
Over the last decade, he has gathered a group of crack Portland music veterans, namely bassist Kelly Simmons (Man of the Year), guitarist Michael Lewis (Lael Alderman, The Very Foundation) and drummer Paul Noel (Durango Park). Together they have made the EMTs at SxSW earn their keep, talked classic power-pop bands over beers with Bobcat Goldthwaite in Wichita, Kansas, provided background music for NBC's Today Show as well as Chip Mabry's "Brutal Beauty" documentary, and shared sweat, spirits and stage with the likes of Paul Collins, Rogue Wave, Dead Confederate, Of Montreal, Frightened Rabbit, Fitz and the Tantrums and Blue Giant.