If you know about Talbot Tagora, you might have also seen their very awesome shirts. They’re the shirts that say the band name on them but the design is that of a sports shirt… these shirts that might be mistaken for that of a high school sports team shirt. It’s part of that trick that people think about but also don’t think about; the trick where a name is associated with a symbol but they don’t match like you remember it to be. Similar to those neuroscience experiments when a subject is supposed to verbally tell the experimenter what color the letters in the word “Red” are and they say red… But the words are blue (hint, the correct answer is “blue”).

I don’t know if that’s what Talbot Tagora was thinking when they had those shirts made, I don’t know if they just asked a friend to make them a shirt (or if it was the other way around) but either way, the folks in the band seem like they’d be into it either way.

If you didn’t know, Talbot Tagora’s members are young. Mark and Chris just recently began attending universities, which is a big reason why the band is on hiatus. You can’t really have a band when members are busy focusing on their own lives rather than trying to be rock stars. Becoming a rock star isn’t a guaranteed position and self-betterment is.

From what’s been sensed among the music crowd in Seattle is that they’re either into Talbot Tagora, they aren’t, or they don’t know about the band. For this show, when talking about beforehand (from two weeks to the day before), there was the upmost excitement that was expressed when I would mention that the band was playing at Healthy Times. Before, during, and after their set the mood of the night felt like a Christmas vacation from school or work. The kind where you go home for a few days to visit your parents but you’re actually more excited to see your friends play in their really art-rockin’ band.

Good feelings all around, even if it was hard to hear singing.