Video: Hello Blue Roses | Glasslands Gallery | 2.16.2008

"Playing live sucks," Dan Bejar joked, or sort of joked, in consolation as Sydney Vermont struggled finding the chords on her acoustic guitar in the low lighting of Glasslands Gallery. She had started and restarted the song about eight times and was clearly ready to move on to the next one but gbave it one last go and muddled through. It was that kind of show. Hello Blue Roses , Bejar's other other group with his Girfriend Vermont, hadn't played a live show in 18 months, with Bejar adding, "our last show was 18 minutes [...]

• Hello, Blue Roses - Sunny Skies

photos by Leia Jospe Destroyer's Dan Bejar (also of the New Pornographers and Swan Lake) is the more high-profile member of Vancouver's Hello, Blue Roses, but the duo's work actually hinges on the pristine crooning of Sydney Vermont . [ Time Out ] Hello, Blue Roses played their first NYC show (probably their first U.S. show even) at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn last night (Feb 16, 2008). It was also their first live performance together in [...]