THE SHOW

"Bringing the United Kingdom to this side of the Atlantic, The Show is Influenced heavily by the eras of the 60's and 90's. It's part Rolling Stones and Stone Roses, but also gives a nod to more modern bands like Oasis, The Shins, Built to Spill, and The Verve." -NXNE 2015 - NXNE.com

Welcome to our show, where we cover one of our featured Artist AT Work. This episode we interview The Show as they perform in front of a pack crowd during there album release party in Pittsburgh, PA.

(See link for video) - iMove iLive

The Show, “One More Night” – Here’s a Pittsburgh band that could fool you into thinking their Brits. The Show, which just released the new album “Until you know what it’s like to stand where there is no ground ,” takes its cues from bands like Oasis and The Verve and pours its love into the Britpop sound. - WYEP FM

"Pittsburgh bands come in various shapes and sounds, but it's rare that you stumble upon one that could be mistaken for Oasis..The two principles trade off vocals and songwriting on a set of infectious Britpop-style songs that would be a radio-programmer's dream..." Scott Mervis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette February 2014

"...six songs worth of perfectly pleasant pop-rock bliss... potential to make it big.... [an] extremely likeable and impressive winner." -Jersey Beat May 2014.


"......a tight post-grunge sound reminiscent of Built to Spill or Foo Fighters." - Pittsburgh City Paper.

"...they sound like Death Cab For Cutie meets Oasis... and I'm a music snob... and that's a very good thing..." Jon, Tinderbox.

"The Show sounds like One Direction meets the scene of a car crash..." Mark Malagise, "Thrift".

The Show, “One More Night” – Here’s a Pittsburgh band that could fool you into thinking their Brits. The Show, which just released the new album “Until you know what it’s like to stand where there is no ground ,” takes its cues from bands like Oasis and The Verve and pours its love into the Britpop sound." -91.3 FM WYEP, Pittsburgh, from "The Buzz"

The Show perform in front of a packed crowd - iMove iLive http://imoveilive.com/artistatwork-the-show-pittsburgh-pa/#.Ux5mw7i1_UY.twitter - VARIOUS

"This will be the band that takes the genre that has been labeled 'Indie' to the Mainstream as the Ramones did with Punk and Nirvana with Grunge. Here's to YOUR Jigsaw, The Show!" -Pittsburgh LiveWire April 2009

" 'Here's To Your Jigsaw' is writing checks that The Show's asses better be able to cash live' "
---Garrett Haines, Tape-Op/Indie Bible, August 2009

"Nothing short of frighteningly infectious," -Dan Cancaid, Standard Issues September 2009

“ 'Here’s To Your Jigsaw' is a rock and roll album that has the familiar but intangible excitement of rock being new again, and at the same time brings something completely in depth to the table... that something you can’t put your finger on…This album is not short of greatness…no monotony…so infectious that they might be placed under a code blue…. Anthemtic!” – IndiePower/Activate August 2009


The first definable "Ivy Rock" Musicians hit hard with a variety of rock and roll based music from the beautiful ballad "Semihopeful" to the hard rocking "Flying Pig", whose melodies you'll all be singing along with by the end of the song. –Pittsburgh Underground Live, 2007

Raw emotional power infused with drunken stage antics brings the brilliance back to rock and roll… the something-you-can’t-put-your-finger-on excitement radiated through the Rex Theatre crowd last night… --Pulp, 2007

Hard rocking indie guitars loaded with space and melodies as easy to find as a needle in Mick Jagger... no band with two singers comes close to making every feel as natural as The Show. –LiveWire, 2007

Every once in a while, I can catch a whiff of The Shins’ James Mercer or of The Verve’s Nick McCabe, but it passes as quickly as it comes. This band is in no shortage of it’s own tricks, it’s own style, and captivation. –NY NU, 2008

It’s clear that these songs will be stadium anthems one day, and for now I’m more than content to see them with a couple hundred people in a small club. Why can’t these days last? --Christina Stevens, Melodic Syndrome 2008

[The Show’s] performances are unique and innovative, the songs are infectious but not predictable. The lyrics slice through you like a hot butter knife with dull aching and longing. My editor things I’m overrating this a bit—I think he listens to too much Metallica and Pantera. --Jonathon Frost / P.U. / (Pittsburgh Underground, 2008)

[The night was] fourteen songs worth of catchy, ringing and melodic rock with a certain appealingly breezy’neasy laid-back élan, this band goes down nice and smooth like a tasty cup of freshly brewed hot chocolate. Johnny Lethal’s engagingly hoarse vocals and Brandon Mitchell’s coo’ing Robert Smith like singing coincide to dreamy sequence of everything you wished were still true about rock today. Their disarmingly upbeat reflective personalities make for strong and likeable double acts. Moreover, the sweetly thoughtful songwriting, tight’n’tuneful arrangements (the folksy harmonica and organ bits are especially nifty), amusingly profane say-it-like-you-see-it lyrics, and overall good-natured attitude all score a bull’s eye as well. A modest and unassuming, but surefire and enjoyable winner of a band. –JERSEY BEAT, 2007

Good old new rock and roll… tastes of Zeppelin and Nirvana… overwhelmingly not overwhelming where you feel like you could just scream when you think they’re about to. They are masters at prolonging the orgasm. –Outlook, 2008

Forget about the notions that you have of “angst-ridden,” that silly buzz phrase from the 1990s that was used to describe a generation of burgeoning misanthropes just does not to justice to The Show. They wrench the guts of their listeners one moment and have them hopping and dancing in jubilant triumph over their forgotten misery the next. –Pulp, 2008

On first examination, The Show has all the markings of a young, wide-eyed band: a detailed month-by-month press kit, and titles such as “Act 1, Scene 1,” and “Out of My Head,” The titles aren’t original, the feeling sure is. The band has an ear for arrangements, good riffs, and songwriting that have pointed them in the right direction to shoot off from a cannon any moment. It’s moody hard rock with a wall of guitars that is not to in-your-face to stand on it’s own. –24-Seven+1, 2008


"This will be the band that takes the genre that has been labeled 'Indie' to the Mainstream as the Ramones did with Punk and Nirvana with Grunge. Here's to YOUR Jigsaw, The Show!" -Pittsburgh LiveWire April 2009

" 'Here's To Your Jigsaw' is writing checks that The Show's asses better be able to cash live' "
---Garrett Haines, Tape-Op/Indie Bible, August 2009

"Nothing short of frighteningly infectious," -Dan Cancaid, Standard Issues September 2009

“ 'Here’s To Your Jigsaw' is a rock and roll album that has the familiar but intangible excitement of rock being new again, and at the same time brings something completely in depth to the table... that something you can’t put your finger on…This album is not short of greatness…no monotony…so infectious that they might be placed under a code blue…. Anthemtic!” – IndiePower/Activate August 2009


The first definable "Ivy Rock" Musicians hit hard with a variety of rock and roll based music from the beautiful ballad "Semihopeful" to the hard rocking "Flying Pig", whose melodies you'll all be singing along with by the end of the song. –Pittsburgh Underground Live, 2007

Raw emotional power infused with drunken stage antics brings the brilliance back to rock and roll… the something-you-can’t-put-your-finger-on excitement radiated through the Rex Theatre crowd last night… --Pulp, 2007

Hard rocking indie guitars loaded with space and melodies as easy to find as a needle in Mick Jagger... no band with two singers comes close to making every feel as natural as The Show. –LiveWire, 2007

Every once in a while, I can catch a whiff of The Shins’ James Mercer or of The Verve’s Nick McCabe, but it passes as quickly as it comes. This band is in no shortage of it’s own tricks, it’s own style, and captivation. –NY NU, 2008

It’s clear that these songs will be stadium anthems one day, and for now I’m more than content to see them with a couple hundred people in a small club. Why can’t these days last? --Christina Stevens, Melodic Syndrome 2008

[The Show’s] performances are unique and innovative, the songs are infectious but not predictable. The lyrics slice through you like a hot butter knife with dull aching and longing. My editor things I’m overrating this a bit—I think he listens to too much Metallica and Pantera. --Jonathon Frost / P.U. / (Pittsburgh Underground, 2008)

[The night was] fourteen songs worth of catchy, ringing and melodic rock with a certain appealingly breezy’neasy laid-back élan, this band goes down nice and smooth like a tasty cup of freshly brewed hot chocolate. Johnny Lethal’s engagingly hoarse vocals and Brandon Mitchell’s coo’ing Robert Smith like singing coincide to dreamy sequence of everything you wished were still true about rock today. Their disarmingly upbeat reflective personalities make for strong and likeable double acts. Moreover, the sweetly thoughtful songwriting, tight’n’tuneful arrangements (the folksy harmonica and organ bits are especially nifty), amusingly profane say-it-like-you-see-it lyrics, and overall good-natured attitude all score a bull’s eye as well. A modest and unassuming, but surefire and enjoyable winner of a band. –JERSEY BEAT, 2007

Good old new rock and roll… tastes of Zeppelin and Nirvana… overwhelmingly not overwhelming where you feel like you could just scream when you think they’re about to. They are masters at prolonging the orgasm. –Outlook, 2008

Forget about the notions that you have of “angst-ridden,” that silly buzz phrase from the 1990s that was used to describe a generation of burgeoning misanthropes just does not to justice to The Show. They wrench the guts of their listeners one moment and have them hopping and dancing in jubilant triumph over their forgotten misery the next. –Pulp, 2008

On first examination, The Show has all the markings of a young, wide-eyed band: a detailed month-by-month press kit, and titles such as “Act 1, Scene 1,” and “Out of My Head,” The titles aren’t original, the feeling sure is. The band has an ear for arrangements, good riffs, and songwriting that have pointed them in the right direction to shoot off from a cannon any moment. It’s moody hard rock with a wall of guitars that is not to in-your-face to stand on it’s own. –24-Seven+1, 2008 - VARIOUS