At the start of last night’s hour-long show at the Beachland Tavern, singer-guitarist Holly Golightly said that she and the Brokeoffs (her one man backing “band” Lawyer Dave) were happy to be back in Cleveland. “It’s so nice to be here compared to some of the places we played,” she said. (She would later go into detail about how she recently got into an argument with some fans in Toledo.) But her comfort level last was so high, in fact, that she and Lawyer Dave practically treated the show like a rehearsal. Not that there was anything wrong with that. Given that they were playing to a crowd of about 30, it made sense that they’d take a casual and light-hearted approach to the show.
This article appears in Oct 10-16, 2012.
