performers:
The Drink Up Honey
The Drink Up, Honey is the name of the experimental sometimes electronic sometimes acoustic musical output from Chicago-come-Anacortes resident Nick Rennis who makes melodic soundscapes using found and live sound. He acknowledges noise compositions whose dark roots also have the potential for making the brightest ambient music. The listener can’t help but recall Jim O’Rourke or Joan Of Arc on a first listen.
As with his ancestors, for The Drink Up, Honey music is as much about texture as it is clarity. It is a means of describing, via melody, ideas about leaving and growing as effectively as the most refined indie pop. The main man now runs The Business record store and has a past in post-rock group A Promise Made. He has spent the past few years performing and recording with the likes of New York’s acclaimed Mountains and Chicago buds The Love Of Everything and Tim Kinsella.
