The Recluse

Cursive

**Cursive with Gladie Underground Arts**

**Wednesday, October 30, 2024**

**Doors: 7:00 PM | Show: 8:00 PM**

**21+**

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**About Cursive**

cursivetheband.com

Over the past two decades, Cursive has become known for writing smart, tightly woven concept albums where frontman Tim Kasher turns his unflinching gaze on specific, oftentimes challenging themes, and examines them with an incisively brutal honesty. 2000’s Domestica dealt with divorce; 2003’s The Ugly Organ tackled art, sex, and relationships; 2006’s Happy Hollow skewered organized religion; 2009’s Mama, I’m Swollen grappled with the human condition and social morality; and 2012’s I Am Gemini explored the battle between good and evil. But the band’s remarkable eighth full-length, Vitriola, required a different approach -- one less rigidly themed and more responsive as the band struggles with existentialism veering towards nihilism and despair; the ways in which society, much like a writer, creates and destroys; and an oncoming dystopia that feels eerily near at hand.

**About Gladie**

gladie.net

Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out, the second full-length record from Philadelphia band Gladie, opens with a contemplative instrumental called “Purple Year.” Along with acoustic strumming and a late-night wall of cricket-chirps, cello and gentle horn runs set a dewy, moonlit stage before second track and single “Born Yesterday” bursts alive with drums, bass, and bright guitar chord crunch. It’s like a cold, heart-jolting morning plunge as Augusta Koch’s familiar Philly tenor starts in: “It takes me more time, I’m a little unsteady/I was born yesterday, I forgot I could be somebody.”Koch realized while writing these songs that she had become an entirely different person: a mental, spiritual, and physical renaissance had unfolded over several years that, together, constituted an entirely new reality. Everything had changed, from relationships with friends to relationships with alcohol. Being on the other side of these tectonic shifts offered the sort of clarity that you can only get by going through the darkness: You Don’t Know What You’re In Until You’re Out. It’s optimistic, but it’s scary, too—life changes always are. Who will you be at the end of them? “Born Yesterday,” which Koch wrote about not drinking alcohol anymore, offers a critical revelation that guides the record, and which was hard-earned while experiencing the overwhelming emotional acuity that developed while living without alcohol: “The way I feel, I could fill the ocean/When the wave comes crashing in, it said I’m not a fixed thing/I’m changeable.”

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Cursive is an American indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska. Stylistically described as emo and post-hardcore, Cursive came to prominence with 2000's Domestica and found commercial and critical success with 2003's The Ugly Organ.

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🖋️ The iconic Omaha group known for their intensity, ambition, and execution, Cursive take the stage Shrine Social Club → 2/2 with guests Pile 🎟️ on sale 🔜 Fri 10am MT → theduckclub.com

All Ages

Typically the first band starts 1 hour after doors open.

When does the first band start playing?

Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?

Kids aged 7 and under are free, if accompanied by an adult with a ticket.

Are kids allowed in for free?

Yes, full bar available for those 21+ with legal ID

Will there be a bar for those 21+?

If you have any questions, please email info@theduckclub.com

Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?

Tickets will not be accessible at the time of purchase. All tickets will be digitally delivered to your phone (can activate 2 hour before start date/time). No paper/PDF. Ticket holders will receive their DIGITAL ONLY tickets on this date. Only the live ticket QR code from your DICE app will be accepted at the gate. Screenshots, email confirmation and printouts are not valid.

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