I think this was thought to be Team Gina‘s second to last show. The only reason why they were going to have a last show was because when it was booked, one of the Gina’s was planning to leave Seattle but turns out that she decided to stay. So it wasn’t their second to last performance but it was then. Something like that.

Team Gina left New York City and were flying to the show to play but the people putting on the show didn’t know when they were getting there. While everyone waited, Your Heart Breaks was going to play for as long as possible or until Team Gina arrived. A thirty minute in-between set intermission would have been absurd and no one minded the extended set. Everyone loves Your Heart Breaks.

This show was one of the last shows on a brief Northwest tour with Tender Forever. Like most sets, there were a quite a number of people chatting, some waiting for Your Heart Breaks to start, and others still outside chumming it up over cigarettes. Before everyone began sitting down, there was a song made up on the spot which seemed like the most mellow and unintentional cue for the show to start. People started orienting their bodies toward the greenscreen stage and a few made their way to sitting on the ground before the suggestion was made through the PA. During the entire evening it seemed that the fan-rockstar barrier wasn’t in place, the one that can lead people to feel different than the performers on stage.

The house was comfortably full and intimacy was in the air, like a great grandmother reading a romance novel. It always astonishes me who I meet and how many people are inspired by Your Heart Breaks and stricken not just by intimacy with the music but the kind of intimacy that you feel when you think about everything. Everything that has been greatly unfortunate and tragic, inspirational, where you are in life, who you are, what you’re made of, and every important part of your life. From despair to happiness whether they are constants or only brief moments in your life. It’s what Your Heart Breaks is about and does more for people — more than it was intended to be.

It doesn’t necessarily matter what the setting is or if that particular set was brilliant or wasn’t as great than the last. If you’re tuned in then your heart is tuned in.