Dead Poet Society The Saturday Tea

TIMETABLE: 19:00 doors | 20:00 The Saturday Tea | 21:00 Dead Poet Society

A perfect symbol for Dead Poet Society is the “shitty old seven-string” that guitarist Jack Collins bought at a mall back in high school. With its wonky intonation, the instrument can’t produce traditional chords or scales — an unlikely choice for a rock band with such strong commercial potential. Collins and frontman Jack Underkofler are a factory of hooky riffs, even at their most detuned and menacing; and the latter barks and coos with a crystalline purity that recalls Jeff Buckley and Muse’s Matt Bellamy. That contrast is crucial to the band’s debut LP, -!- out March 12, 2021 via Spinefarm Records.