Doom Flamingo

The Official Umphrey's McGee After Party

Sat Sep 18, 2021
10:00 PM / Show: 11:00 PM
21+

$22

The Official Umphrey’s McGee After Party w/ Doom Flamingo

Join us at The Vogue on Saturday September 18th for the Official Umphrey’s McGee after party with Doom Flamingo and special guest Midwest Hype! Doors at 10:30 and music at 11:00!

About Doom Flamingo

Doom Flamingo is a six-headed synthwave beast with a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde element to the songwriting. Top Gun guitar riffs and Miami Beach poolside lounge-vibes, are all at once contrasted with darksynth sounds eerily reminiscent of old John Carpenter films. The cast of talented musicians in this project came together organically through friendships and past collaborations in their hometown of Charleston, South Carolina.

It was during two days in the first week of May 2018 that Doom Flamingo began its rise. After a brief period of brainstorming, Doom Flamingo got right to work rehearsing. These first rehearsals took place in their hometown at The Charleston Pour House. A studio space in downtown Charleston named Rialto Row was the site for the first recordings of Doom Flamingo with producers Wolfgang Zimmerman and Doom’s guitarist Thomas Kenney.

The instrumentation for the first Doom Flamingo songs had been worked on in advance of the studio, but there was one piece of the puzzle that caught everyone off-guard — a voice. The dynamic vocal range from vocalist Kanika Moore sets this project into hyperdrive. Kanika has something you can’t teach, and that’s not to say she hasn’t tirelessly honed her craft. She has. It’s hard to describe her sound as she’s really a chameleon of various sounds. While she can, and often does, do anything she wants with her voice, there’s an honesty that shines through in both her songwriting and her tone.

While the band feverishly pushed through more of their ideas for songs in the studio space at Rialto, Kanika sat quietly in the compound’s front “dormitory” area listening to recently tracked audio on her headphones. With a pencil and paper, Kanika crafted full verses, refrains even a rapid-fire hip-hop verse with unique syncopation. Kanika was mostly silent until her time in the vox room. It was as if she’d been waiting to say something meaningful all the while, and the message came through loud and clear — Doom Flamingo rises.

with Midwest Hype

Midwest Hype came of age in the early 2000’s in the Chicago area and officially became a band in 2006 when lead singer/guitarist George Matthew met drummer Max Kepler and bassist Nate Miller and began playing music together. The three of them went on to Ball State Univeristy, where they met keyboard player Kevin Krizmanich, saxophonist Ben Morrisey, and trumpet player Scott Whitford. After leaving BSU the band members proceeded to embark on a grueling tour schedule, playing 150+ shows annually over the course of the next 5 years in support of their initial offering: 2008’s “Colorful Love.”

In early 2010, emcee Justin “Ideal” Diehl joined the group, adding the perfect complement to the mixture of hip-hop, reggae, funk, and jazz that fully epitomizes the band.

In 2012 the band released the “Dayglow” EP, beginning with a sold out show at Schuba’s Tavern in Chicago. The EP was their first effort working with producer Steven Gillis (formerly of Filter). 2012 saw the band play numerous high-profile shows, including The House of Blues, The Metro, Wicker Park Music Fest, Summercamp Music Festival, and Hyperion, among others.

2013 saw the band hit Hollywood Way Studios with multi-platinum producer Dave Aron (of Sublime, Death Row, and Prince fame) to record the full-length LP “The Time.” The album sets the dynamic contrast of the band’s mix of intelligent hip-hop and soulful reggae against the driven background of progressive funk, with flourishes of hard rock and jazz. The Time was released in 2014 with a sold-out headlining show at the world-famous Double Door Chicago.

The Hype followed up the “The Time” by linking with Doug McBride at Gravity Studios to record the “Nightglow Ch. 1” was released as a 7 inch single in preparation for the “Nightglow LP” full-length album.

“Nightglow” finds the Hype elevating their sound to new heights to become the manifestation of everything the band has evolved into over the past 10 years; a literal reflection of the time we live in, brought to you by a band with no boundaries that knows no borders. As a result, the Hype create a sonically unique blend of sound and emotion that is the true essence of modern Rock n’ Roll.

Like the name suggests, Midwest Hype encapsulates the true definition of what it means to be Genrefree. With an extremely high-energy live show that never fails to capture the electricity in the air, Midwest Hype is a free-wheeling, dance floor mayhem-inducing force to be reckoned with.

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Doom Flamingo w/ Midwest Hype

21+

Saturday September 18th, 2021

Doors at 10:30 pm / Show at 11:00 pm

Tickets at TheVogue.com

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Forty 5 Presents hosted a spectacular Umphrey's After Party ft Midwest Hype and Doom Flamingo at The Vogue Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana, on September 18, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne

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Forty 5 Presents hosted a spectacular Umphrey's After Party ft Midwest Hype and Doom Flamingo at The Vogue Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana, on September 18, 2021. Photo cred Melodie Yvonne

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