Tom Breyfogle will perform as both the opening act and as drummer for headliners Relient K at Photo Track 29.IF YOU GO
• What: Relient K featuring Birds in the Airport and Golden Youth.• When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13.• Where: Track 29, 1400 Market St.• Admission: $18 in advance, $20 day of show.• Phone: 423-521-2929.• Venue website: track29.co.• Artist website: birdsintheairport.com.”I like playing other people’s music, but I’d rather represent myself with something I made on my own than a song I had nothing to do with.” – Tom Breyfogle
Somewhere along the road to producing his debut EP, Tom Breyfogle realized that maybe, just maybe, he was creating a concept album.
As he composed the five-track project, “How’s It Going To End?” Breyfogle took stock of the songs he’d written – including “Under the Mushroom Cloud” and “The Sky Is Falling Down” – and concluded that, inadvertently, he was creating a kind of soundtrack to the apocalypse.
So he ran with it.
“I guess it is, in the end, a concept, in the sense that there’s an overtone of the world ending,” Breyfogle says in a phone interview from his home in California. “That wasn’t planned, [but] I guess I realized, ‘I’m using this theme throughout the whole thing, so I guess I’m going to go for it.'”