WEHOville is giving away a pair of tickets to see Letters to Cleo on Saturday at the Roxy! Sign up using the form below. A winner will be selected at random from the entries and contacted via telephone.
Letters to Cleo formed in 1990 in Boston, lead by guitarist Greg Mckenna and singer Kay Hanley. The band came onto the national spotlight with the release of their first hit single “Here & Now,” released by Giant Records (a subsidiary of Warner Brothers Records). The song reached No. 10 on the Billboard Modern Rock Singles chart. The band’s music could be heard on many of the top TV shows and films throughout the 1990’s, including the cult classic 10 Things I Hate About You, where the band contributed 4 songs to the soundtrack and were featured in the film. The band played their last show in 2000 and each of the members went on to have successful careers working in different areas of music from the production, writing, performance, musical directing etc. The band was thrust back into the pop culture spotlight via a cameo Parks and Recreation, playing themselves, the obsession of the show’s state auditor Ben Wyatt played by Adam Scott. Most recently the band achieved the pinnacle of pop culture validation as a subject this past Sunday’s New York Times crossword puzzle.
This is great! More giveaways to local shows where you don’t need to have a nose ring and purple hair to get in would be awesome. I’m going to Rock N Roll Hall of Fame taping or I’d be all over this.